Ithaca, NY - You Only Get What You're Organized To Take
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Ithaca, NY - You Only Get What You're Organized To Take

Come for the book, stay for the movement!

By Kairos Center

Date and time

Friday, April 25 · 12 - 2pm EDT

Location

Ithaca College

953 Danby Road Ithaca, NY 14850

About this event

  • Event lasts 2 hours

In You Only Get What You’re Organized to Take: Lessons from the Movement to End Poverty, Rev. Liz Theoharis and Noam Sandweiss-Back chronicle stories and learnings from some of the most significant anti-poverty struggles of the past 30 years. This book offers not only a powerful examination of the past, but a roadmap for how we ignite a new era of movement-building and democratic awakening.

There will be an opportunity to hear directly from the authors and other grassroots organizers, and engage in shared dialogue about conditions in Ithaca, New York, and the country as a whole.

We will also hear plans for the Survival Revival Organizing Tour — a bold new organizing drive among the poor. Over the coming year(s), grassroots leaders will criss-cross the country, connecting with and linking up community-level struggles for housing, food, wages, water, land, immigrant rights, bodily autonomy, peace, belonging, and more.

Co-sponsors: Ithaca Departments of Sociology, Philosophy and Religion, Politics, Environment (ENVS), Education, Psychology, and Jewish Studies and Peace Studies Programs.

Hosted at the Klingenstein Lounge, Campus Center, Ithaca College. Free lunch provided.

Individuals requiring accommodations should contact Dr. Alicia Swords as far in advance of the event as possible.aswords@ithaca.edu, 607-274-1209

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Kairos Center

Kairos is an ancient Greek word, describing a time of great change, when the old ways of the world are dying and new ones are struggling to be born. It is clear we are living through exactly such a time today. This kairos moment is full of both grave danger and rare opportunity, and calls for bold and imaginative action from those who wish to break free from the intolerable conditions of poverty, systemic racism, militarism, ecological devastation, and more. It is in this context that new movements of poor and dispossessed people are emerging across the country and world.