"Dawson Barrett has written an important book for our times. The Defiant reads like a continuation of Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States, picking up where Zinn left off. Anyone interested in the resistance that led to 'The Resistance' today should read this book."-Stephen Duncombe, New York University
"Here is an indispensable manual for the defiant ones--the organizers and the activists, the rebels and resisters, the dissidents and the disobedient--and, in fact, for anyone paying attention to the gathering catastrophe, dreaming of a more just and joyful world, and willing to step into history now as an actor on behalf of humanity. The Defiant is a book of the resistance--where to find it and how to organize it. It's an antidote to cynicism and despair, a map toward building our own agency, and a crucial companion to carry along to the militant blockade or the picket line, into the classroom or onto the barricades."-Bill Ayers, author of Fugitive Days, Public Enemy, and Demand the Impossible
"Can insurgency from below change American politics? The question has never been more important, and Dawson Barrett helps us to answer that question with a penetrating series of case studies of contemporary protests from the margins of American society."-Frances Fox Piven, author of Challenging Authority and Poor Peoples' Movements
"The Defiant is both a jargon-free primer on the politics of neoliberalism and a critical consideration of the panoply of social movements - from punk squatters to immigrant farmworkers and anti-imperialist veterans - that have resisted neoliberal threats to justice and well-being at every turn. It is a valuable contribution to the urgent task of mapping and assessing the fragmented post-1960s American Left." -Andrew Cornell, author of Unruly Equality: U.S. Anarchism in the 20th Century
"Here is an indispensable manual for the defiant ones―the organizers and the activists, the rebels and resisters, the dissidents and the disobedient―and, in fact, for anyone paying attention to the gathering catastrophe, dreaming of a more just and joyful world, and willing to step into history now as an actor on behalf of humanity.
The Defiant is a book of the resistance―where to find it and how to organize it. It’s an antidote to cynicism and despair, a map toward building our own agency, and a crucial companion to carry along to the militant blockade or the picket line, into the classroom or onto the barricades."-Bill Ayers,author of Fugitive Days, Public Enemy, and Demand the Impossible
"Can insurgency from below change American politics? The question has never been more important, and Dawson Barrett helps us to answer that question with a penetrating series of case studies of contemporary protests from the margins of American society."-Frances Fox Piven,author of Challenging Authority and Poor Peoples' Movements
"Dawson Barrett has written an important book for our times. The Defiant reads like a continuation of Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States, picking up where Zinn left off. Anyone interested in the resistance that led to 'The Resistance' today should read this book."-Stephen Duncombe,New York University
"The Defiant is both a jargon-free primer on the politics of neoliberalism and a critical consideration of the panoply of social movements – from punk squatters to immigrant farmworkers and anti-imperialist veterans – that have resisted neoliberal threats to justice and well-being at every turn. It is a valuable contribution to the urgent task of mapping and assessing the fragmented post-1960s American Left." -Andrew Cornell,author of Unruly Equality: U.S. Anarchism in the 20th Century