Hope in the Dark is an invitation to recognize the vast, inclusive, inchoate, nameless, wonderful movement that shut down the Seattle WTO, that marched by the tens of millions against war in Iraq, that has learned many lessons from the past and is making its own future, and ours, against empire, against violence, and against the multinationals.
She counts historic victories that we have forgotten-from the fall of the Berlin war to the Zapatista uprising to Seattle in 1999 to Cancun in September 2003-tracing the rise of a sophisticated, supple, nonviolent new activism that unites all the diverse and fragmentary issues of the eighties and nineties. Rebecca Solnit is something of an icon for me. To hope is dangerous, and yet it is the opposite of fear, for to live is to risk. Throwing out the crippling assumptions with which many activists proceed, award-winning author Rebecca Solnit proposes a new vision of how change happens. It is to bet on the future, on your desires, on the possibility that an open heart and uncertainty is better than gloom and safety. This book arises out of this moment, arguing millions marching against war did not constitute a failure, but a step toward success.
When the worldwide movement against war in Iraq failed to persuade the Bush administration against military action, many activists felt that their actions had been futile, their voices ignored. Hope in the Dark is an exploration of optimism in an era of seeming defeat and cultural pessimism. A book as powerful and influential as Rebecca Solnits Men Explain Things to Me, her 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.
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