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Best of 2023: Let This Radicalize You w/ Mariame Kaba & Kelly Hayes
Jan 1, 2024
Mariame Kaba and Kelly Hayes discuss their book Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care, exploring topics such as disappointment in organizing, the power of relationships in activism, empathy in COVID organizing, defunding and resource allocation, collective survival, and building structures based on interdependence.
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- Politics involves constructing narratives and cultivating empathy for effective organizing.
- Reciprocal care and cooperation are crucial for collective survival and building a better world.
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The Power of Narrative and Constructing Meaning
The book emphasizes that politics involves conflict over meaning and constructing narratives. It challenges the notion that facts alone motivate political action and highlights the importance of how facts fit into a broader narrative. It explores the role of cognitive biases in shaping beliefs and behavior and aims to cultivate empathy and understanding in organizers. The book encourages organizers to move beyond divisive narratives and focus on finding common ground and effective ways to communicate with different types of people.
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