Carla Bergman

Joyful Militancy : Building Thriving Resistance i...

Introduction There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt. —Audre Lorde[1] People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints—such people have a corpse in their mouth. —Raoul Vaneigem[2] Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be a militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable. —Michel Foucault[3] I This book is an attempt to amplify some quiet conversations that have been happening for a long time, about the connections between resisting and thriving, about how we re... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)

NO! Against Adult Supremacy Vol. 2

Youth Liberation and Deschooling, An Interview with Carla Bergman Carla Bergman is a community artist, curator and writer who mucks around with her partner and two unschooling kids in East Vancouver, unceded Coast Salish Territories. Currently, she is the director of the Purple Thistle Center and has worked with youth creating projects, mentoring, facilitating workshops and making a variety of publications for the past fifteen years. She is on the Board of the Institute for Anarchist Studies. Carla co-founded the art and activist publication RAIN, worked with car free day Vancouver as a core organizer and co-founded the Thistle Institute, an alternative to university, in 2011. She is currently working on a Film about the Thistle and ... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)

Stifling Air of Rigid Radicalism, The : excerpt from Joyful Militancy:...

Capitalism, colonialism and heteropatriarchy make us sick. Are our responses healing us? Are our actions generating wellbeing for others? Or are we unintentionally reproducing the kind of relationships that made us sick in the first place? —Zainab Amadahy[1] Puritanism, in whatever expression, is a poisonous germ. On the surface everything may look strong and vigorous; yet the poison works its way persistently, until the entire fabric is doomed. —Emma Goldman[2] About a century ago, the famous anarchist Emma Goldman was at a party, dancing her heart out, when a young man took her aside. “With a grave face, as if he were about to announce the death of a dear comrade,” the man told her that ... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)

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