The Movements We Need to Stop Fascism
Episode Description
Author, organizer, and political strategist Alicia Garza joins the Fascism Barometer to discuss the impact of rising fascism on our lives and political strategy. Alicia and Ejeris discuss what we need to change about movement building and ourselves to push back against fascist advances.
About Alicia
Alicia Garza believes that Black communities deserve what all communities deserve — to be powerful in every aspect of their lives. An author, political strategist, organizer, and cheeseburger enthusiast, Alicia founded the Black Futures Lab to make Black communities powerful in politics. In 2018, the Black Futures Lab conducted the Black Census Project — the largest survey of Black communities in over 150 years. Alicia is the co-creator of #BlackLivesMatter and the Black Lives Matter Global Network, an international organizing project to end state violence and oppression against Black people. Alicia’s first book, The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart, was released October 20, 2020 with One World (Penguin Random House.) She shares her thoughts on politics and pop culture on her podcast Lady Don’t Take No.
About Ejeris
Ejeris is a political strategist passionate about strengthening liberation movements and building community safety. Ejeris serves as the Fascism Barometer's "movement meteorologist," exploring the impact of fascist movements on communities of color, queer and trans communities, and all marginalized people. Having worked for the past twenty-five years at the intersections of racial justice, LGBTQ liberation, anti-violence, transformative justice, and economic justice movements, Ejeris focuses on creating political and strategic experiments to strengthen social justice movements through the organization Ejerie Labs.
Resources
Reading
Capital Research Center, “Marching Towards Violence: the Domestic Anti-Israel Movement”
Ejeris Dixon, Ejerie Labs, “Indicators of Rising Fascism”
Truthout, Ejeris Dixon, “Fascism Is Rising, but It Does Not Have to Be Our Future.”
Alicia Garza, The Purpose of Power
Listening
Alicia Garza, Lady Don’t Take No Podcast
Ejeris on the Anti-Authoritarian Podcast
Democracy Now, “Do Not Obey in Advance”: Timothy Snyder on How Corporate America Is Bending to Trump
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