{"product_id":"all-is-not-lost-20-ways-to-revolutionize-disaster","title":"All Is Not Lost: 20 Ways to Revolutionize Disaster","description":"\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eAn uplifting look at how organizers in the past have successfully leveraged crises into emancipatory politics, and a plea for continued progressive movement building in our tumultuous social climate\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFrom the climate apocalypse and COVID-19 to double-digit unemployment to Donald Trump and the rise of far-right white nationalists—disasters are everywhere we look.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhile these disasters often leave us feeling hopeless and withdrawn, scholar Alex Zamalin argues that pessimism cannot be the only response. Silence and inaction only perpetuate mass suffering and inequality. Instead, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eAll Is Not Lost\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e suggests that following every crisis emerges new political opportunity for changing our politics and everyday lives.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBlending intellectual history, biography, and political critique, Zamalin offers 20 specific lessons for our present moment, turning to moments in history to demonstrate how various figures in the past have successfully leveraged struggles into sources of political action and freedom. The lessons—on how to resist, organize, treat others, think politically, memorialize, dream, write, occupy, build, and act—all build toward one truth: though disaster is something we cannot prevent from arriving, we can control how we confront it and what we build in its place. Using examples from the 17th century to the present, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eAll Is Not Lost\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e reminds readers to not back down in the face of crisis and offers radical lessons of continued resistance and movement building to create a successful progressive coalition.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Alex Zamalin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50602071556392,"sku":"BKDP-0040","price":17.2,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0950\/5983\/7224\/files\/Screenshot2024-04-08144147.png?v=1767114931","url":"https:\/\/cantstore.ca\/products\/all-is-not-lost-20-ways-to-revolutionize-disaster","provider":"CANT Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}