From art museums and university hospitals to think tanks and church charities, over 1.5 million organizations of staggering diversity share the tax-exempt 501(c)(3) designation, if little else. Many social justice organizations have joined this world, often blunting political goals to satisfy government and foundation mandates. But even as funding shrinks and government surveillance rises, many activists often find it difficult to imagine movement-building outside the nonprofit model. The Revolution Will Not Be Funded gathers original essays by radical activists from around the globe who are critically rethinking the long-term consequences of this investment. Together with educators and nonprofit staff they finally name the “nonprofit industrial complex” and ask hard questions: How did politics shape the birth of the nonprofit model? How does 501(c)(3) status allow the state to co-opt political movements? Activists--or careerists? How do we fund the movement outside this complex? Urgent and visionary, The Revolution Will Not Be Funded is an unbeholden exposé of the “nonprofit industrial complex” and its quietly devastating role in managing dissent.

    This new, authoritative introduction to Rosa Luxemburg’s two most important works presents the full text of Reform or Revolution and The Mass Strike, with explanatory notes, appendices, and introductions.One of the most important Marxist thinkers and leaders of the twentieth century, Rosa Luxemburg is finding renewed interest among a new generation of activists and critics of global capitalism.

    Parenti’s work has enlightened and enlivened readers for many years, covering a wide range of subjects.Here is a rich selection of his most lucid and penetrating writings on real history, political life, empire, wealth, class power, technology, culture, ideology, media, environment, sex, and ethnicity. Also included are a few choice selections drawn from his own life experiences and political awakening. Parenti goes where few political observers dare to tread. Time and again he takes the extra step beyond the parameters of permissible opinion, and time and again he succeeds in carrying the reader with him.The selections herein, that are reprinted from previously published works, have been revised and updated. Other offerings appear here for the very first time."Radical in the true sense of the word, [Parenti] digs at the roots which...sustain our public consciousness."—Los Angeles Times Book Review"Prominent leftist public intellectual Parenti has built a reputation for himself as a trenchant, yet engaging and accessible, critic of capitalism, imperialism, and other forms of exploitation and violence and this diverse collection of his writings will not disappoint his fans (nor, probably, convince his detractors). Over the course of the collection he takes on the corporate media, intellectual repression in academia, the stolen presidential elections of 2000 and 2004 (not that he's a fan of Al Gore or John Kerry), right wing judicial activism, free-market orthodoxies and mythologies, racism, sexism, homophobia, postmodern attacks on Marxism, the distortions of dominant history, ill-informed demonizations of the Venezuelan political process, his own life, and many other topics."—Book News, Inc."A prolific author, a charismatic speaker, and a regular guest on radio and television talk shows, Parenti communicates his message in an accessible, provocative, and historically informed style that is unrivaled among fellow progressive activists and thinkers."—Aurora OnlineMichael Parenti is a critically acclaimed author and an extraordinary public speaker. He received his Ph.D. in political science from Yale University and has taught at a number of colleges and universities, in the United States and abroad. He is the author of twenty books, including Superpariotism , The Assassination of Julius Caesar, Inventing Reality, and Democracy for the Few.

    From a retelling of indigenous myths and legends, to visions of the future of Mexico, from searing critiques of the US war in Iraq, to clandestine radio broadcasts from the jungles of Chiapas, here is an amazing selection of writing that gives voice to the literary and poetic genius of Latin America’s greatest living writer and rebel.

    Authors Joan Minieri and Paul Getsos share stories and tools from their nationally recognized and award-winning work of building a community-led organization, training community leaders, and conducting campaigns that changed public policy and delivered concrete results to tens of thousands of people. This how-to manual includes:- In-depth analysis of how to launch and win a campaign- Tools and guidelines for training people to lead their own campaigns and organizations- Insights for using technology effectively, building more powerful alliances, and engaging in the social justice movement

    Lively account of how people power has shaped British history -- from Peterloo to the Poll tax and beyond.

    Ellison went on to earn many other honors, including two presidential medals and election to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, but his failure to publish a second novel, despite years of striving, haunted him for the rest of his life. Now, as the first scholar given complete access to Ellison's papers, Arnold Rampersad has written not only a reliable account of the main events of Ellison's life but also a complex, authoritative portrait of an unusual artist and human being. Born poor and soon fatherless in 1913, Ralph struggled both to belong to and to escape from the world of his childhood. We learn here about his sometimes happy, sometimes harrowing years growing up in Oklahoma City and attending Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. Arriving in New York in 1936, he became a political radical before finally embracing the cosmopolitan intellectualism that would characterize his dazzling cultural essays, his eloquent interviews, and his historic novel. The second half of his long life brought both widespread critical acclaim and bitter disputes with many opponents, including black cultural nationalists outraged by what they saw as his elitism and misguided pride in his American citizenship. This biography describes a man of magnetic personality who counted Saul Bellow, Langston Hughes, Robert Penn Warren, Richard Wright, Richard Wilbur, Albert Murray, and John Cheever among his closest friends; a man both admired and reviled, whose life and art were shaped mainly by his unyielding desire to produce magnificent art and by his resilient faith in the moral and cultural strength of America. A magisterial biography of Ralph Waldo Ellison--a revelation of the man, the writer, and his times.

    Another Knowledge is Possible explores the struggles against moral and cultural imperialism and neoliberal globalization that have taken place over the past few decades, and the alternatives that have emerged in countries throughout the developing world from Brazil and Colombia, to India, South Africa and Mozambique. In particular it looks at the issue of biodiversity, the confrontation between scientific and non- scientific knowledges, and the increasing difficulty experienced by great numbers of people in accessing information and scientific- technological knowledge.

    Although most of the U.S. population is non-Hispanic and white, the vast majority of the incarcerated—and policed—is not. In this compelling collection, scholars, activists, and current and former prisoners examine the sensibilities that enable a penal democracy to thrive. Some pieces are new to this volume; others are classic critiques of U.S. state power. Through biography, diary entries, and criticism, the contributors collectively assert that the United States wages war against enemies abroad and against its own people at home.Contributors consider the interning or policing of citizens of color, the activism of radicals, structural racism, destruction and death in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina, and the FBI Counterintelligence Program designed to quash domestic dissent. Among the first-person accounts are an interview with Dhoruba Bin Wahad, a Black Panther and former political prisoner; a portrayal of life in prison by a Plowshares nun jailed for her antinuclear and antiwar activism; a discussion of the Puerto Rican Independence Movement by one of its members, now serving a seventy-year prison sentence for sedition; and an excerpt from a 1970 letter by the Black Panther George Jackson chronicling the abuses of inmates in California’s Soledad Prison. Warfare in the American Homeland also includes the first English translation of an excerpt from a pamphlet by Michel Foucault and others. They argue that the 1971 shooting of George Jackson by prison guards was a murder premeditated in response to human-rights and justice organizing by black and brown prisoners and their supporters.Contributors. Hishaam Aidi, Dhoruba Bin Wahad (Richard Moore), Marilyn Buck, Marshall Eddie Conway, Susie Day, Daniel Defert, Madeleine Dwertman, Michel Foucault, Carol Gilbert, Sirène Harb, Rose Heyer, George Jackson, Joy James, Manning Marable, William F. Pinar, Oscar Lòpez Rivera, Dylan Rodríguez, Jared Sexton, Catherine vön Bulow, Laura Whitehorn, Frank B. Wilderson III

    Based on remarkable fieldwork and extensive interviews in Chinese textile, apparel, machinery, and household appliance factories, Against the Law finds a rising tide of labor unrest mostly hidden from the world's attention. Providing a broad political and economic analysis of this labor struggle together with fine-grained ethnographic detail, the book portrays the Chinese working class as workers' stories unfold in bankrupt state factories and global sweatshops, in crowded dormitories and remote villages, at street protests as well as in quiet disenchantment with the corrupt officialdom and the fledgling legal system.

    She offers new insights into the internal dynamics of SNCC as well as the workings of the larger civil rights and Black Power movement of which it was a part.As Hogan chronicles, the members of SNCC created some of the civil rights movement's boldest experiments in freedom, including the sit-ins of 1960, the rejuvenated Freedom Rides of 1961, and grassroots democracy projects in Georgia and Mississippi. She highlights several key players--including Charles Sherrod, Bob Moses, and Fannie Lou Hamer--as innovators of grassroots activism and democratic practice. Breaking new ground, Hogan shows how SNCC laid the foundation for the emergence of the New Left and created new definitions of political leadership during the civil rights and Vietnam eras. She traces the ways other social movements--such as Black Power, women's liberation, and the antiwar movement--adapted practices developed within SNCC to apply to their particular causes. Many Minds, One Heart ultimately reframes the movement and asks us to look anew at where America stands on justice and equality today.Between 1960 and 1965, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) created some of the civil rights movement's boldest experiments in freedom. Wesley Hogan explores how the organization fostered so much social change in such a short time. She offers new insights into the internal dynamics of SNCC as well as the workings of the larger civil rights movement of which it was a part. Beyond the movement itself, SNCC laid the foundation for the emergence of the New Left and created new definitions of political leadership during the civil rights and Vietnam eras. Hogan traces the ways other social movements--such as Black Power, women's liberation, and the antiwar movement--adapted practices developed within SNCC to apply to their particular causes.

    Building on the First Edition (published in India by the Viveka Foundation, New Delhi in 2004), this Second Edition has been revised and updated to include coverage of those Social Forums that took place as recent as the summer of 2007.Here is what some critics had to say about the First Edition:If you want to know how the World Social Forum was formed and what the opinion of some of the main actors in it is on issues such as globalization, transnational feminism, justice and peace among others, this is the book to read. - VirtualActivism.orgA useful array of writings on the entire WSF process--the global context in which it emerged, the manner in which different movements and ideologies have interacted and shaped this process and the manner in which it has itself grown in the past years. - Aniket Alam, The HinduAn excellent effort at combining both information and critical reflection on the World Social Forum phenomenon. - Massimo De AngelisWorld Social Forum: Challenging Empires is a stupendous collection of essays, documents and statements, a critical self-consideration of the WSF process by a variety of people. - Milan Rai, The New StandardA stellar collection of essays. Indispensable reading. - Immanuel Wallerstein, Fernand Braudel CenterTable Of ContentsAcknowledgementsNotes on the EditorsNotes on the ContributorsIntroduction: Critically Engaging with the World Social ForumPART 1 Antecedents: Critical Perspectives- For Struggles, Global and National - Samir Amin, interviewed by V. Sridhar- Coming: A Rerun of the 1930s - Walden Bello- The Road From Genoa - Jeremy Brecher, Tim Costello, Brendan Smith- Towards a New International? - Michael Löwy- Transnational Feminism and the Struggle for Global Justice - Johanna Brenner- Towards Another Anarchism - Andrej Grubacic- Empire, Global Power Centres, and People’s Alliances - Muto Ichiyo- The Global Justice and Solidarity Movement and the World Social Forum - Peter WatermanWorld Social Forum Documents- World Social Forum Charter of Principles - WSF International Council, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2001- WSF IC—Nature, Responsibilities, Composition, and Functioning - WSF Brazilian Organising Committee, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2001- Note of Information, Fourth Day Activities at WSF Nairobi - WSF Organising Committee, WSF Nairobi, Kenya, 2007- Call for Day of Action/Mobilisation January 26th 2008 - WSF International Council, Berlin, Germany, 2007PART 2 Critical Engagement: The World Social Forum- The World Social Forum As Open Space - Chico Whitaker- The World Social Forum: Arena or Actor? - Teivo Teivainen- Another World Is Necessary - Nawal El Saadawi- The Secret of Fire - Peter Waterman- Is It Possible to Put a Human Face on Globalisation and War? - ILC- World Forum Movement: Abandon or Contaminate - Linden Farre- De-Centering the Forum: Is Another Critique of the Forum Possible? - Michal Osterweil- Another (Also Feminist) World Is Possible - Sonia E. Alvarez, with Nalu Faria and Miriam Nobre- How Open? the Forum As Logo, the Forum As Religion - JaiSen- The World Social Forum 3 and Tensions In the Construction of Global Alternative Thinking - Gina Vargas- The World Social Forum: Toward a Counter-Hegemonic Globalisation - Boaventura de Sousa Santos- World Social Forum’s ‘Many Alternatives’ to Globalisation - P.J. James- The World Social Forum, Beyond Critique and Deconstruction - Emma Dowling, interviewed by Rebecca ShahMovement And Other Independent Documents- Call of Social Movements - Social Movements Assembly, WSF Porto Alegre, Brazil, January 2002- Mumbai Declaration 2004 - Mumbai Resistance, Mumbai, India, January 2004- Porto Alegre Manifesto - Group of Nineteen, WSF Porto Alegre, Brazil, January 2005PART 3 Globalising The Forum: The Forum In The World- Globalising the WSF: Ironies, Contrasts, Challenges - Achin Vanaik- Citizen Mobilization In the Americas and the Birth of the WSF - Dorval Brunelle- The World Social Forum In Africa - Jean Nanga- The World Social Forum:Current Challenges and Future Perspectives - Irene León and Sally Burch- Another U.S. Is Happening!Judy Rebick- The Road to Atlanta - Michael Leon Guerrero, Tammy Bang Luu, Cindy Wiesner- Asterix On the St. Lawrence - Pierre BeaudetMovement And Other Independent Documents- The Bamako Appeal - World Forum for Alternatives, Third World Forum, Forum for Another Mali,ENDA, and others, WSF Bamako, Mali, January 2006- Call of Social Movements - Social Movements Assembly, WSF Caracas, Venezuela, January 2006- Declaration of Social Movements - Social Movements Assembly, WSF Nairobi, Kenya, January 2007PART 4 Looking Beyond: Possible Futures, Possible Worlds- WSF: Where to Now? - Michael Albert- The Twilight of Vanguardism - David Graeber- The World Social Forum and the Future - Boaventura de Sousa Santos- Women’s Global Charter for Humanity - World March of Women- Other Worlds Are (Already) Possible - Arturo Escobar- Glossary- ReferencesJai Sen, an architect and a housing-rights activist, is an independent researcher living in New Delhi. Peter Waterman worked for the institute of Social Studies, The Hague, for nearly thirty years. He is the author of Globalisation, Social Movements, and the New Internationalisms.2007: 475 pages, 6x9, resources, bibliography and indexPaperback ISBN: 978-1-55164-308-3Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-55164-309-0