Jonathan Smucker is a long-time organizer and theorist in grassroots movements for social, economic and ecological justice. He is co-founder and Director of Beyond the Choir and is currently a doctoral student of sociology at UC Berkeley.
Looking back on Occupy – 10 years on
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Occupy Wall Street at 10: What It Taught Us, and Why It Mattered
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There s a political realignment taking place amid a system-wide crisis of legitimacy that status quo forces cannot resolve.
Jonathan Smucker’s first book
Equal parts memoir, field manual and work of a trained sociologist,
Hegemony How-To was released in January 2017, just as millions of previously complacent Americans joined “The Resistance” to Donald Trump’s presidency. The book delivers a tough love diagnosis of the left’s self-defeating behaviors that is informed by Smucker’s Forrest Gump-like journey through various radical sub-cultures and identities: Catholic Worker, anarchist tree sitter, punk rock enthusiast, global justice activist, anti-war arrestee, Occupier.