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Kevin Van Meter is an organizer and independent-scholar based in the Pacific Northwest. He is author of Guerrillas of Desire: Notes on Everyday Resistance and Organizing to Make a Revolution Possible published by AK Press, amongst other works. As an activist, organizer, and public intellectual, Van Meter’s efforts focus on reading the struggles that circulate in the United States, mutual aid and working-class self-activity, the refusal of work and everyday forms of resistance. Dr. Van Meter holds a PhD in Geography,
Environment and Society.

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	Guerrillas of Desire: Notes on Everyday Resistance and Organizing to Make a Revolution Possible 3.90 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Uses of a Whirlwind: Movement, Movements, and Contemporary Radical Currents in the United States by Craig Hughes (Editor), Kevin Van Meter (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Stevie Peace (Editor) 3.92 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wind(s) From Below - Radical Community Organising to Make a Revolution Possible by Craig Hughes, Stevie Peace, Kevin Van Meter (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Guerrillas of Desire' offers a contentious hypothesis: the fundamental assumptions underlying Left and radical organizing, including many strains of anarchism, is wrong. I do not mean organizationally dishonest, ideologically inappropriate, or immoral. I mean empirically incorrect. ... Strategies ... are predicated on the assumption that working class and poor people are unorganized and not resisting. Illustrating that everyday resistance is a factor in revolution and a form of politics, maintaining that its effects on overt rebellion and crises are measureable, requires the reversal of this assumption. Working class and poor people ... are already organized and resisting.”
― Kevin Van Meter, Guerrillas of Desire: Notes on Everyday Resistance and Organizing to Make a Revolution Possible

tags: anarchism, leftism, radical-politics, resist, resistance, social-change

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