Carla Bergman

Joyful Militancy : Building Thriving Resistance i...

Chapter 1: Empire, Militancy, and Joy A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window. —Brian Massumi[8] Personally, I want to be nurturing life when I go down in struggle. I want nurturing life to BE my struggle. —Zainab Amadahy[9] Resistance and joy are everywhere Anyone who has been transformed through a struggle can attest to its power to open up more capacities for resistance, creativity, action, and vision. This sense of collective power—the sense that things are different, that we are different, that a more capable “we” is forming that didn’t exist before—is what we mean by joyful transformation... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)

NO! Against Adult Supremacy Vol. 2

Youth Liberation and Deschooling, An Interview with Carla Bergman Carla Bergman is a community artist, curator and writer who mucks around with her partner and two unschooling kids in East Vancouver, unceded Coast Salish Territories. Currently, she is the director of the Purple Thistle Center and has worked with youth creating projects, mentoring, facilitating workshops and making a variety of publications for the past fifteen years. She is on the Board of the Institute for Anarchist Studies. Carla co-founded the art and activist publication RAIN, worked with car free day Vancouver as a core organizer and co-founded the Thistle Institute, an alternative to university, in 2011. She is currently working on a Film about the Thistle and ... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)

Stifling Air of Rigid Radicalism, The : excerpt from Joyful Militancy:...

Capitalism, colonialism and heteropatriarchy make us sick. Are our responses healing us? Are our actions generating wellbeing for others? Or are we unintentionally reproducing the kind of relationships that made us sick in the first place? —Zainab Amadahy[1] Puritanism, in whatever expression, is a poisonous germ. On the surface everything may look strong and vigorous; yet the poison works its way persistently, until the entire fabric is doomed. —Emma Goldman[2] About a century ago, the famous anarchist Emma Goldman was at a party, dancing her heart out, when a young man took her aside. “With a grave face, as if he were about to announce the death of a dear comrade,” the man told her that ... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)

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