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Firestorm Cafe & Books, downtown
Asheville's cooperative community event space, is
pleased to announce an evening with Stevie Peace. Stevie is the
contributing editor of the recently published Uses of a
"Whirlwind: Movement, Movements, and Contemporary
Radical Currents in the United States."Peace works with the Team Colors Collective, a network engaged in militant research to provide strat- egic analysis for the intervention into everyday life. Team Colors explores questions of everyday resistance, mutual aid, the imposition of work, social repro- duction, class composition, community participation, movement building, and the commons by creating engaging workshops and producing provocative written documents and articles. Currently, Team Colors operat- es in the United States with members based in the Mid- Atlantic Region, Midwest, Northwest, and Southwest. Their approach has developed out of their involvement in community organizing projects, community dialogs, and resistance activities for more than a decade. Stevie Peace is a writer and organizer from Shoreview, MN. Peace has worked with the Common Ground Health Clinic in New Orleans and continues his support for Black Liberation in the wake of Gulf Coast recovery through the Anti-Racist Working Group National Solidarity Network. He currently works for Restorative Justice Community Action in Minneapolis. Peace�s writings have been published in AZiNe and Borderlands: Tales from Disputed Territories Between Races and Cultures. Uses of a Whirlwind explores the current composition of social movements in the United States. With equal emphasis placed on movement history and movement building, Whirlwind is a call to action for a new decade of organizing. If you'd like more information about this topic call Scott Evans at (828) 253-0149 or email [email protected]. To schedule an interview with Stevie Peace, please call (612) 432-5049 or email [email protected]. (Image provided by Firestorm Cafe & Books.)
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