Organizing In the 21st Century: Beyond Moments Of Crisis

Guide: Marilyn Grell-Brisk
Duration: Starting July 6th | Thursdays, 3-5pm | 6 Weeks
Format: In-Person Study Group at a TBD location in the Los Angeles area
Cost: $500

Social movements capture our collective subconscious, visibly and sometimes invisibly foreshadowing fundamental shifts in how our societies are organized. People acting collectively can both change and re-entrench existing power structures and institutions; effectively, social movements give agency to collective behavior. The anti-police brutality protests in the summer of 2020, galvanized a global social movement, forging a broader coalition of resistance against the neoliberal order. But what spurs social movements and what sustains them? What can we do such that our movements are less reactive and more deliberative, conscious, and intentional as we work toward liberation? Together, we will reflect on and consider these questions as we collectively work on a model for organizing. All reading materials will be provided.

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Marilyn is a transdisciplinary scholar but holds a Ph.D. in Sociology. She specializes in global structural inequality, hierarchy, power, and the connections between exploitative economic systems and climate change, air pollution exposure disparities, racism and othering. Using community-based research practices, she engages in Black Study and is particularly interested in global-local social movements that affirm Black(ness) and Black futurity. Marilyn is currently the Black Reconstruction As A Portal, Mellon Sawyer Seminar Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Irvine, and a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Organizational Studies Field Group at Pitzer College.