Transforming Power: From the Personal to the Political
How do we define social and political change in light of such new realities as globalization, mass communication technologies and the environmental crisis? Why are more and more people shifting their focus from the personal to the political realm? To celebrate the launch of her latest book, Transforming Power: From The Personal To The Political (Penguin Group Canada), veteran activist Judy Rebick will moderate a thought-provoking panel discussion about such timely issues. Refreshments will be served.
In her new book, Transforming Power: From the Personal to the Political, veteran activist Judy Rebick explains how globalization and mass communication technology are revolutionizing our understanding of power and producing profound new ideas about social and political life. Whether it’s the election of President Obama, the rise of democracy in Bolivia, or the success of Wikipedia, it’s the process that’s key: bringing communities of people together to produce something new; building a movement from the bottom up; sharing experience, knowledge and wisdom; emphasizing co-operation and consensus over confrontation and political partisanship.
In Transforming Power, Rebick emphasizes co-operation and consensus over confrontation and partisanship as a means of achieving political goals. Rebick argues that today's combination of environmental crisis, globalization, and rapid technological innovation is producing profound new ideas about social and political life, and that this groundswell is truly the vanguard of a global movement to change the way we live our lives, from the ground up.
Judy Rebick is a well-known social justice activist, educator , writer, and speaker. She currently holds the Sam Gindin Chair in Social Justice and Democracy at Ryerson University. Rebick is founder of rabble.ca, Canada’s most popular independent online news and discussion site and the author of several books and articles, most recently Ten Thousand Roses: The Making of a Feminist Revolution (Penguin 2005). During the 1990’s, she was the host of two national TV shows on CBC Newsworld and a frequent commentator on CBC radio and television. Rebick is perhaps best known to Canadians as a former president of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women, Canada’s largest women’s group.
