{"product_id":"for-the-long-haul-how-to-stay-in-the-fight-for-a-better-world","title":"For the Long Haul: How to Stay in the Fight for a Better World","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA guide to sustaining long-term activism from a social-movement veteran.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo win in significant ways, we will have to build and sustain movements—grassroots movements propelled by urgency, that move at a pace that we can maintain collectively, for years to come. This is the long haul. Changing the world will require large numbers of ordinary people moving into action, bringing more and more people along with them and constellating powerful new collectivities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFor the Long Haul\u003c\/em\u003e addresses the question of how to sustain long-term involvement in transformative social movements. Chris Dixon takes up this question with a particular focus on our time of compounding crises and widely felt urgency. This urgency, the book argues, is warranted; creating a just and habitable future requires dramatic social transformation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWritten in a compact and accessible manner, \u003cem\u003eFor the Long Haul\u003c\/em\u003e takes up the question of activist longevity through five chapter-length propositions. Each chapter names a key obstacle to movement durability and then elaborates practical tools for contending with the obstacle and nourishing long-haul organizing. Focusing on the US and Canada, the book is based on interviews with and writings by seasoned organizers, experiences of past and present-day political organizations, and a broad range of movement histories. Deceptively simple prompts, such as cultivating a long view, caring for each other, making plans, and sticking around, lead readers to rich examinations of movement history and culture that center Black, Indigenous, queer, and feminist voices.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eFor the Long Haul\u003c\/em\u003e:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eFor the Long Haul\u003c\/em\u003e is an invaluable resource. Drawing on meticulous research and extensive political experience, Chris Dixon offers practical tools for building durable liberatory movements that can meet the challenges of our time.\" —\u003cstrong\u003eAngela Davis\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eFreedom Is a Constant Struggle\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“I cannot imagine a more timely text than Chris Dixon’s \u003cem\u003eFor the Long Haul: How to Stay in the Fight for a Better World\u003c\/em\u003e. Dixon’s warm prose is a salve for weary spirits. So many of us are afraid that there’s no point to the work we do or struggling to stay in the work. Dixon rejects moralizing in favor of thinking through how to make long-term struggle sustainable. A must-read for young folks and elders alike, I hope communities will read it together to find hope, sustenance, and the groundwork for a future where we survive and thrive.” —\u003cstrong\u003eChanda Prescod-Weinstein\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eFor the Long Haul\u003c\/em\u003e is a balm to counter burnout and exhaustion. Powerful, practical, and timely, \u003cem\u003eFor the Long Haul\u003c\/em\u003e offers a practical roadmap. Dixon draws on the many approaches and strategies of both past and present-day movements and organizers to stay involved, invigorated, and (re)energized in battling injustices and building a better world.\" —\u003cstrong\u003eVictoria Law\u003c\/strong\u003e, journalist and author of \u003cem\u003eCorridors of Contagion: How the Pandemic Exposed the Cruelties of Incarceration\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Unlike an instruction manual, rigid and rendered irrelevant with age, \u003cem\u003eFor the Long Haul\u003c\/em\u003e offers guideposts of political struggle to stand the test of time. Drawing wisdom from a diverse array of radical traditions, Chris Dixon has written a book that every organizer needs. Written with clarity, insight, and fidelity to social movements, \u003cem\u003eFor the Long Haul\u003c\/em\u003e is not about what to do but how to do it. It tells us how to be strong enough for when we don't win, bold enough so that we do, and caring enough to nourish all who want to transform the world. This is a book that will not only stick around but one that aims to help our movements stick around—for the long haul.\" —\u003cstrong\u003eDan Berger\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eStayed on Freedom: The Long History of Black Power Through One Family's Journey\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChris Dixon\u003c\/strong\u003e is an activist, writer, and educator with more than three decades of experience in social movements in the US and Canada. Originally from Alaska, he now lives in Ottawa, on unceded Algonquin territory. Dixon is a member of Punch Up Collective and serves on the advisory board for the activist journal \u003cem\u003eUpping the Anti\u003c\/em\u003e. Formally trained as a scholar of social movements, he writes and speaks regularly about radical organizing, left history, and movement-based research. His first book was \u003cem\u003eAnother Politics: Talking Across Today's Transformative Movements\u003c\/em\u003e. Find more of Dixon's work on his website, \u003cem\u003eWriting With Movements\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRachel Herzing\u003c\/strong\u003e’s work has spanned grassroots movements against imprisonment and policing, community and movement education, and philanthropy. Herzing is the co-author of \u003cem\u003eHow to Abolish Prisons: Lessons from the Movement against Imprisonment\u003c\/em\u003e with Justin Piché, and the director of the Yarrow Institute for Organizing and Analysis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AK Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67933412884634,"sku":null,"price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0726\/6988\/8666\/files\/longhaulbook.jpg?v=1792692981","url":"https:\/\/www.redcurrentshop.com\/products\/for-the-long-haul-how-to-stay-in-the-fight-for-a-better-world","provider":"Red Current Distro - Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}