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Book SynopsisThe Revolution Will Not Be Funded gathers essays by radical activists, educators, and non-profit staff from around the globe who critically rethink the long-term consequences of what they call the "non-profit industrial complex," which works against the efforts of social justice organizations.
Trade Review"A stinging indictment of what the authors call the 'non-profit industrial complex.'" -- Elisabeth Prügl * Signs *
"Fiery" * Utne Reader *
"A crucial intervention into mainstream ways of thinking about political organization and social change." -- Ryne Clos * Spectrum Culture *
"Powerfully demonstrate[s] what we too often forget: our attempts at securing safety for ourselves and our communities are subject to much more powerful attempts by the state and society to make itself safe—including to make itself safe from us and our most radical, challenging, revolutionary, feminist ideas." -- Ruthann Robson * Women's Studies Quarterly *
"Although
The Revolution Will Not Be Funded presents no easy answers for those of us struggling both to make a living and to create social change, it exhorts us to put the consideration of our movements' missions, and the way we fulfill them, before considerations of organizational and job security—and to regularly revisit within our organizations the question of whether the form and the content of our work are essentially compatible." -- Christy Thornton * NACLA Report on the Americas *
Table of ContentsPreface / Andrea Smith ix
Foreword / Soniya Munshi and Craig Willse xiii
Introduction: The Revolution Will Not Be Funded 1
Part I: The Rise of the Non-Profit Industrial Complex
The Political Logic of the Non-Profit Industrial Complex / Dylan Rodríguez 21
In the Shadow of the State / Ruth Wilson Gilmore 41
From
Black Awakening in Capitalist America / Robert L. Allen 53
Democratizing American Philanthropy / Christine E. Ahn 63
Part II: Non-Profits and Global Organizing
The Filth on Philanthropy: Progressive Philanthropy's Agenda to Misdirect Social Justice Movements / Tiffany Lethabo King and Ewuare Osayande 79
Between Radical Theory and Community Praxis: Reflections on Organizing and the Non-Profit Industrial Complex / Amara H. Pérez, Sisters in Action for Power 91
Native Organizing Before the Non-Profit Industrial Complex / Madonna Thunder Hawk 101
Fundraising is Not a Dirty Word: Community-based Economic Strategies for the Long Haul / Stephanie Guilloud and William Cordery, Project South: Institute for the Elimination of Poverty and Genocide
"we were never meant to survive": Fighting Violence Against Women and the Fourth World War / Ana Clarissa Rojas Durazo 113
Social Service or Social Change? / Paul Kivel 129
Pursuing a Radical Anti-Violence Agenda Inside/Outside a Non-Profit Structure / Alisa Bierria, Communities Against Rape and Abuse (CARA) 151
The NGOization of the Palestine Liberation Movement: Interviews with Hatem Bazian, Noura Erekat, Atef Said, and Zeina Zaatari / Andrea Smith 165
Part III: Rethinking Non-Profits, Reimagining Resistance
Radical Social Change: Searching for a New Foundation / Adjoa Florência Joes de Almeida 185
Are the Cops in Our Heads and Hearts? / Paula X. Rojas 197
Non-Profits and the Autonomous Grassroots / Eric Tang 215
On Our Own Terms: Ten Years of Radical Community Building with Sista II Sista / Nicole Burrowes, Morgan Cousins, Paula X. Rojas, and Ije Ude 227
About the Contributors 235
Index 242
