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We need a litany, a rosary, a sutra, a mantra, a war chant for our victories.  US$18.00, US$15.99 Were you prepared for the way your essay Men Explain Things to Me reached such a huge audience?Absolutely not. The hope I am interested in is about broad perspectives with specific possibilities, ones that invite or demand that we act. Indeed, the stories we tell ourselves about these poles matter. It’s also a nightmarish time.

But there are good reasons. Hope In The Dark by Rebecca Solnit, 9781782119074, available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide. Which means that every conflict is in part a battle over the story we tell, or who tells and who is heard. Counting historic victories?from the fall of the Berlin wall to the Zapatista uprising to Seattle in 1999 to the worldwide marches against war in Iraq to Cancun in September 2003?she traces the rise of a sophisticated, supple, nonviolent new movement that unites all the diverse and fragmentary issues of the eighties and nineties in our new century.  US$19.47, US$19.03 Your UK tour has been cancelled because of the pandemic.

Things don’t always change for the better, but they change, and we can play a role in that change if we act. Solnit reminds us of how changed the world has been by the activism of the past five decades.

So victories slip by unheralded. Solnit looks back on this seemingly distant past as she peers forward into the near future: The moment passed long ago, but despair, defeatism, cynicism, and the amnesia and assumptions from which they often arise have not dispersed, even as the most wildly, unimaginably magnificent things came to pass. That fear signifies their recognition that popular power is real enough to overturn regimes and rewrite the social contract. The quiet organising going on in the shadows beforehand matters.

Paul Goodman famously wrote, “Suppose you had the revolution you are talking and dreaming about. Uprisings and revolutions are often considered to be spontaneous, but it is the less visible long-term organising and groundwork – or underground work – that often laid the foundation.

And it might be worth adding that noncapitalist ways of doing things are much older than free-market economic arrangements.

We can tell of a past that was nothing but defeats, cruelties and injustices, or of a past that was some lovely golden age now irretrievably lost, or we can tell a more complicated and accurate story, one that has room for the best and worst, for atrocities and liberations, for grief and jubilation. Progressive, populist and grassroots constituencies have had many victories. Enjoy the best Rebecca Solnit Quotes at BrainyQuote.

Reading the book, I kept wishing for an endlessly branching wiki version of the text, which collaborators could keep updating with each new reversal or development; after all, even these negative reversals in Brazil and Burma aren’t the end of the story. That moment passed long ago, but despair, defeatism, cynicism and the amnesia and assumptions from which they often arise have not dispersed, even as the most wildly, unimaginably magnificent things came to pass. It's to bet on your futures, on your desires, on the possibility that an open heart and uncertainty is better than gloom and safety. Hope in the Dark was, in many ways, of its moment – it was written against the tremendous despair at the height of the Bush administration’s powers and the outset of the war in Iraq.