Publications
Working Definition of Transformative Organizing
Transformative organizing is an inter-generational and multi-generational praxis of cultivating durable collective power that simultaneously dismantles systems of exploitation and oppression while transforming the individuals, communities, and relationships engaged in that struggle. Rooted in the recognition that dominant conceptions of power AND political economies must be reimagined and redefined, transformative organizing develops new patterns of relating across differences (Audre Lorde), grounded in healing justice, embodied leadership, and generative movement culture, in such a way that cultivates the conditions for authentic liberation and liberatory cultures of practice, that can also sustain emerging liberatory political economies, not just for some, but for all.
Working Definition of Neo-Fascism
Neo-Fascism is an organized movement, whose proponents advocate and organize to achieve victories within neoliberal democracies that aim to collapse liberal social contracts at every neoliberal institutional-bureaucratic-systemic decision-making point, by lobbying and advocating for laws, policies and administrative procedures and protocols, that make the neoliberal system actor, like police, probation, Sheriffs and ICE Officers, "the sovereign" per Carl Schmitt, thus transforming them into agents of neo-fascism. Through these laws, policies and administrative procedures and protocols, the system actor self-delegates, or is given the power to collapse the neoliberal social contract at that decision-making point, by giving the system actor the power to decide who is punished, who is not, and even the power to decide who lives and who dies through the executive discretion to decide on the exceptions to the law. Thereby the system actor becomes the "living law," with executive discretion to define what is the public good, and beyond that, with the power to decide on the exception to the very U.S. Constitution, our social contract itself, in the name of law and order and security. Neo-Fascism is the distribution of sovereign exception across multiple system actors. Neo-Fascism doesn't need to capture the entire state, it operates by making each system actor a micro-sovereign at their decision-making points. Neo-Fascism is necropolitics (Achille Mbembe) or thanatopolitics, the sovereign power over death.
