GCDP Book Discussion Group
7:00 pm, Thursday, January 9, 2025
Location will be released on January 2
Led by Sarah Bills and Jenn Leclaire
Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
by Rebecca Solnit
Read this short book while sipping on eggnog, and join other Democrats in a community-building book discussion for the new year.
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Hope in the Dark was written to counter the despair of radicals at a moment when they were focused on their losses and had turned their back to the victories behind them and the unimaginable changes soon to come. In it, she makes a radical case for hope as a commitment to act in a world whose future remains uncertain and unknowable. Drawing on her decades of activism and a wide reading of environmental, cultural, and political history, Solnit argued that radicals have a long, neglected history of transformative victories, that the positive consequences of our acts are not always immediately seen, directly knowable, or even measurable, and that pessimism and despair rest on an unwarranted confidence about what is going to happen next.
https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/791-hope-in-the-dark
Bring your read book to the January 25 retreat, where we will re-purpose our copies as door prizes!
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