Jonathan Rosenblum’s new movement history—and valuable primer in municipalist solutions—delivers insight and inspiration from successes in Seattle, where people have forced local government to put the needs of people and planet before profits.
‘People were frozen, I knew that. It wasn’t the stunned shock of 2016; this time around, it was exhaustion. But it also felt like people were thinking. What we’d done before hadn’t worked. What would? No one knew. Yet.’
‘Why is CenterPoint Energy making billions while people die? Why is Encor and other electric utilities making massive profits, when none of that comes back to us?’ — Dave Cortez, Texas Sierra Club
Community organizer Alex Birnel sits down with labor journalist Sarah Jaffe to unpack the politics of grief and its importance to communities struggling to refashion a world of extractive violence.
