Solidarity as Both Means and End

Astra Taylor and Leah Hunt-Hendrix discuss the state of solidarity on a new Team Human

Astra Taylor has been my go-to activist and intellectual since long before Occupy Wall Street and the Rolling Debt Jubiliee she helped create. She’s always been great at articulating what we intuitively feel as activists working toward mutual aid, and backed these intuitions with both historical sweep and tactical grounding. I’d never met her writing partner, Occupy veteran and Hunt heiress Leah Hunt-Hendrix, founder of Solidaire — a network of progressives committed to funding movements focusing on racial and economic justice. So, one part prosperity to two parts precarity, we came together to talk about how we can leverage solidarity in spite of the many Liefforts to keep us all apart.

Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Astra Taylor’s new book, Solidarity, is now available wherever books are sold.

Rushkoff:
Have authorities understood that solidarity is their enemy? Do you see signs of intentional undermining of our possibilities of forging…