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by INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence.
The Revolution Will Not Be Funded | Advance Praise
Unlike anything else being produced by the so-called “Left,” The Revolution Will Not Be Funded breaks through the banality of the progressive agenda, and provides us with an audacious critique of the non-profit structure and philanthropy—not as solutions to, but as extensions of, global capitalist domination. INCITE! and the authors in this anthology have taken a great personal risk by boldly naming the people and institutions who control the funding for many of the spaces in which we do our work. The Revolution Will Not Be Funded is an act of faith in us, the wretched of the earth, to have the capacity to be truly self-sustaining and self-determining.
—Kenyon Farrow, co-editor of Letters from Young Activists
This collection presents a context for the questions that have been troubling us about non-profit structures. In years to come, we will mark it as the jump-start for our new thinking about ways to make collective social change.
—Suzanne Pharr, author of In the Time of the Right: Reflections on Liberation
Are non-profit organizations sufficiently accountable and responsive to the larger aims of popular social movements, or is the “non-profit industrial complex” thwarting the potential for fundamental social change? The Revolution Will Not Be Funded provides a variety of critical perspectives that challenge the conventional foundation model and non-profit system approach to popular organizing in capitalist America. Sure to be a provocative book for activists working for social justice.
—Daniel Faber, editor of Foundations for Social Change
Whether you agree or disagree with the facts and perspectives the authors present, their passionate message and convictions carry disturbing seeds of truth and resentment. For those of us who are interested in philanthropic and non-profit reform, these are voices we need to hear and should not ignore.
—Pablo Eisenberg, Senior Fellow, Georgetown Public Policy Institute
The Revolution Will Not Be Funded gives us invaluable insight into what these activists call “the non-profit industrial complex,” an unseen web of money and power that tries to undermine people’s struggles for racial, economic, gender, and environmental justice. It deserves the closest study.
—Mumia Abu-Jamal, author of We Want Freedom
Whether reformulating non-profits or transforming philanthropy, The Revolution Will Not Be Funded challenges practitioners and philanthropists to be critical of the systems we are part of and to consider fundamental change. This book is a clarion call to all changemakers and revolutionaries to wake up and think outside of the non-profit industrial complex. I was pushed to think about my life and not my JOB, my world and not my ORG.
—Taij Kumarie Moteelall, Resource Generation
The Revolution Will Not Be Funded is a must-read for all of us who are living in the US, the crossroads of empire and global capitalism. Seriously addressing the questions and critiques raised by this collection will help today’s US-based justice movements make sense of our responsibilities—and envision creative opportunities—to help map a transformative future for liberation.
—Joo-Hyun Kang, member, CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities
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