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SUMMARY:EDC Book Club: Let This Radicalize You by Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba
DESCRIPTION:Please RSVP and join the EDC Book Club for a discussion of Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba’s new book\, Let This Radicalize You. Together with EDC curator Anand Pandian\, we will read and discuss this new book in light of current events. You can grab a free ebook copy here! Please join or check the EDC Book Club group for future updates.  \n\n\n\n\n\nThis event will take place virtually on the EDC platform on Wednesday\, December 11th\, starting at 1pm EST (Meeting ID: 955 1193 8558& Password: Books) \n\n\n\n\n\n\nClick here to join!\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBack of the Book:  \n\n\n\nWhat fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Let This Radicalize You is a practical and imaginative resource for activists and organizers building power in an era of destabilization and catastrophe. \n\n\n\nLongtime organizers and movement educators Mariame Kaba and Kelly Hayes examine some of the political lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic\, including the convergence of mass protest and mass formations of mutual aid\, and consider what this confluence of power can teach us about a future that will require mass acts of care\, rescue and defense\, in the face of both state violence and environmental disaster.The book is intended to aid and empower activists and organizers as they attempt to map their own journeys through the work of justice-making. It includes insights from a spectrum of experienced organizers\, including Sharon Lungo\, Carlos Saavedra\, Ejeris Dixon\, Barbara Ransby\, and Ruth Wilson Gilmore about some of the difficult and joyous lessons they have learned in their work. \n\n\n\nPraise: \n\n\n\n“This is a prophetic work\, one that will be pressed with great urgency into the palms of friends and comrades\, kin and colleagues\, and anyone else ready to rise up against machineries of mass death. With great clarity and generosity\, Hayes and Kaba model how participants in movements can be tough on systems while being gentle with one another and themselves\, nurturing a “counterculture of care” as an integral part of building the next world.” —Naomi Klein\, author\, On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal \n\n\n\n“In this time of perpetual crisis\, when too many of our movements are imploding and the work often feels soul crushing\, Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba have turned decades of collective wisdom and experience into the text we desperately need right now. This book will radicalize even the ‘radicals’ by reminding us that to be radical is not to have all the answers or some special portal into transcendent knowledge. It is about seeing and moving differently in the world. It means having the courage to imagine\, make mistakes\, to trust\, listen\, learn\, think\, and rethink; to resist punditry\, pedestals\, and perfection; to reject cynicism and embrace critical analysis; to plot\, to hold on\, to care and commune\, to show up\, to love. They teach us to mourn and organize\, and that we who believe in freedom have to rest. And they understand better than anyone what Dr. King meant when he called on us to ‘rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter\, but beautiful\, struggle for a new world.’” —Robin D. G. Kelley\, author\, Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination \n\n\n\n“Let This Radicalize You is a rich treasury of practical lessons and insights from organizers and activists across many of today’s most important sites of struggle. Through deeply moving storytelling\, Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba share a stirring vision of commitment and collaboration that is rooted in love\, reality\, and solidarity—and one that doesn’t shy away from the challenges we face inside and outside our movements or the high stakes. This book is a gift for everyone\, no matter their level of political engagement\, interested in building the new worlds of care and mutual flourishing that we need.” —Astra Taylor\, author\, Remake the World: Essays\, Reflections\, Rebellions
URL:https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/event/edc-book-club-let-this-radicalize-you-by-kelly-hayes-and-mariame-kaba/
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SUMMARY:Sustainable Brewery Tour: An Ecological Design Collective Grounding
DESCRIPTION:Are you hankering for a pint of Baltimore-brewed beer? Are you curious about sustainable beers made with locally sourced ingredients? Join the Ecological Design Collective as we tour the Checkerspot Brewing Company and learn about their green beer-making practices (and of course sample some of their amazing beers afterward)! \n\n\n\nThe Checkerspot Brewery Company is well-known for its innovative use of local ingredients in its beer-making processes\, sourcing malts and spices from Maryland farms like Baugher’s in Reisterstown. The Brewery has also partnered with several local businesses and not-for-profits to promote sustainable food practices. They have crafted specialty beers out of excess crab shells from J. M. Clayton Seafood Company (Keeper’s Stout) and made beer with African Basil harvested from compost heaps by the Baltimore Compost Collective (B’more Kashi). Check out their current selection of locally crafted beers on their website. \n\n\n\nRSVP below to reserve a spot for the tour. Space is limited to 20 people. \n\n\n\nMeet our Tour Guide: \n\n\n\n\n\nJUDY NEFF \n\n\n\nOWNER & BREWER\n\n\n\nAs owner and brewer\, Judy is a longtime homebrewer living the dream. She is a Certified Cicerone and helped found Baltimore Beer Babes\, a craft beer appreciation group bringing more women into the fold and is a proud member of the Pink Boots Society. She has a PhD in microbiology from The Johns Hopkins School of Public Health\, so she isn’t afraid of the scientific side of brewing\, but firmly believes that the creative side and understanding of the ingredients are just as important. She loves all of the beers\, but Juniperus IPA is definitely the #1! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nItinerary: \n\n\n\nAt 5 pm we will meet inside the Checkerspot Brewing Company (1421 Ridgely St\, Baltimore\, MD 21230). From 5:10 pm to 6 pm Judy Neff\, owner and head brewer\, will give us a tour of the Brewery and answer questions about their beers. From 6 pm onward we will grab a table and sample some of Neff’s amazing local beers! Non-alcoholic drinks will also be available. First round is on the EDC:)  \n\n\n\nEvent Series: \n\n\n\nThis event is a continuation of the EDC’s 2024-25 itinerary for “Reimagining Land\,” anchored in a monthly series of “Groundings” that explore Baltimore’s ecology\, history\, and contemporary place-making efforts through experiential events.
URL:https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/event/sustainable-brewery-tour-an-ecological-design-collective-grounding-at-the-checkerspot-brewing-company/
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