![]() Progressive, populist, and grassroots constituencies have had many victories. ![]() There is a lot of evidence for the defense.Ĭoming back to the text more than a dozen tumultuous years later, I believe its premises hold up. That moment passed long ago, but despair, defeatism, cynicism, and the amnesia and assumptions from which they often arise have not dispersed, even as the most wildly, unimaginably magnificent things came to pass. The text that follows is in some ways of its moment-it was written against the tremendous despair at the height of the Bush administration’s powers and the outset of the war in Iraq. ![]() I wrote this book in 2003 and early 2004 to make the case for hope. And though hope can be an act of defiance, defiance isn’t enough reason to hope. Hope is a gift you don’t have to surrender, a power you don’t have to throw away. Y our opponents would love you to believe that it’s hopeless, that you have no power, that there’s no reason to act, that you can’t win. Foreword to the Third Edition of Hope In The Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities (2015) ![]()
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