‘Militant research’ collective to present work at Firestorm Cafe

Jason Sandford

Jason Sandford is a reporter, writer, blogger and photographer interested in all things Asheville.

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Press release:

Firestorm Cafe & Books, downtown Asheville’s cooperative community event space, is pleased to announce an evening with Stevie Peace, 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.