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The Mission (?)

Increasing economic inequalities accompanied by economic and emotional insecurities for many people.  Escalating Climate Catastrophe with devastating news updates on a regular basis.  Right wing nationalist populism gaining traction throughout the globe.  Poverty, homelessness, racist and sexist violence, largely accepted as “just the way things are”.  Police with no accountability for their actions. Schools that are increasingly driven by economic metrics and fail to provide students with knowledge or skills for building a different world.  A pandemic illuminating and exacerbating racial and class health disparities.  And, accompanying all that is a growing understanding that we can not simply vote our way out of these problems.

Many people are upset and angry about these trends, but few see possible paths towards creating the conditions they might desire.  There seems to be an end of imagining possibilities for a more just world.  Many respond, but too often what is highlighted is what we don’t want or how to cope with our anger and disillusionment.  As educators, activist academics, and community members, we have long been concerned with these conditions.  We see the impacts on our friends, colleagues, children, students, communities, and ourselves.  Increasing hopelessness, despair, or nihilism appear to be becoming common sense.

What can be done?  Well, we also see examples of incredible tangible possibilities of difference being worked out in spaces and places throughout the globe.  Likewise, there is important intellectual work being done in thinking through what might be possible if we accept the hopelessness of liberalism.  We don’t have the answers ourselves.  But, what we hope to contribute here is a collective effort to draw attention to the ontological and activist interventions currently underway while drawing attention to efforts (practical and intellectual) that might help us to desire, imagine, and enact new or refined ways of being and acting in the world.  Building upon the work of friends,  colleagues, and people we admire such as Arturo Escobar, JK Gibson Graham, Richard Wolff, Ana Tsing, Kali Akuno, Silvia Federici, and ******* we hope that this site will become a public and collective space for both understanding and intervening in new ways.  We hope to contribute towards a world that embraces pluralism, collective interdependency with humans and nonhumans alike, autonomy with interconnections, and  **************