Patrick Reinsborough Explained

Patrick Reinsborough (born 1972) is an American writer, activist, social change theorist and practitioner. He is the co-author of Re:Imagining Change: How to Use Story-based Strategy to Win Campaigns, Build Movements and Change the World (PM Press, 2010/2017) and contributor to social movement anthologies including Globalize Liberation: How to Uproot the System and Build a Better World (City Lights, 2004) and Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for Revolution (OR Books, 2012).

Narrative strategy

Reinsborough's writing and political work deals with building transformative movements, shifting cultural narratives[1] and political imagination[2] with a focus on the ecological crisis.[3] [4] He authored the widely circulated essay/zine "Decolonizing the Revolutionary Imagination".[5] [6] [7] He was a founding member of the smartMeme Strategy & Training Project,[8] which began in 2002 training grassroots activists to apply meme theory[9] [10] as a way to shift political debates, amplify social change efforts and "change the story".[11] Reinsborough is one of the creators of story-based strategy methodology[12] and associated with widely used social change frameworks such as "narrative power analysis",[13] [14] "points of intervention"[15] [16] and the "battle of the story".[17] [18] He co-founded and was the executive director of the Center for Story-based Strategy.[19] [20]

Global justice activism

Reinsborough was a prominent organizer, trainer and media spokesperson for the U.S. wing of the anti-corporate globalization movement often known as the global justice movement[21] and was involved in mass actions such as the shutdown of the World Trade Organization in 1999 actions against the World Bank and International Monetary Fund,[22] [23] the World Economic Forum[24] and the protests against the Free Trade Area of the Americas Meeting in Miami in 2003.[25]

Anti-war

He has been a public voice against U.S. militarism and called for the American public to engage in mass nonviolent disruption to stop wars.[26] He was an anti-war organizer and media strategist working with the San Francisco-based mobilization Direct Action to Stop the War,[27] which led mass protests against the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq.[28] He has publicly supported Iraq Veterans Against the War[29] and also advocated for making connections between opposing war and other issues such as racial and economic justice, corporate power and the climate crisis.[30] [31]

Environment, climate and Indigenous rights

Reinsborough has been associated with a number of campaigns challenging the human rights and ecological impacts of fossil fuels as well as demanding stronger action to address climate change. He helped organize an international solidarity campaign supporting Colombia’s indigenous U’wa people, who threatened to commit collective suicide to protest oil drilling on their ancestral territories.[32] [33] [34] [35] Reinsborough has repeatedly cited Mexico’s indigenous Zapatista movement as an inspiration for his thinking and political work.[36] [37] [38]

He has supported protests inside the United Nations COP Climate Talks that criticize the failure of the process to address the climate crisis[39] [40] as well as worked to amplify the voices of North American indigenous leaders participating in the UN forum.[41] Reinsborough is a proponent of climate justice specifically advocating for the broader climate movement taking stronger leadership from fossil-fuel impacted communities as a way to accelerate a just transition to a renewable energy future.[42] He has been a strong critic of the Trump administration, calling them "neo-fascist" and pawns of “global petrocapitalism”.[43]

Apocalyptic narratives and COVID

Reinsborough’s work has often addressed apocalyptic narratives, including coining the phrase “slow-motion apocalypse” to describe public response to the global ecological crisis.[44] [45] During the COVID pandemic in 2020 he did a series of broadcasts[46] sponsored by California Institute of Integral Studies about the role of apocalyptic narratives in shaping political discourse around various structural crises revealed by the pandemic.

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Notes and References

  1. Book: El Khoury, Ann. Globalization Development and Social Justice: A Propositional political Approach. Routledge. 2015. 9781317504801.
  2. Book: Knasnabish, Alex. Zapatismo Beyond Borders: New Imaginations of Political Possibility. University of Toronto Press. 2008. 978-0-8020-9633-3. Toronto. 172–173.
  3. Reinsborough. Patrick. November 2010. Giant Whispers: Narrative Power, Radical Imagination and a Future Worth Fighting For.... Affinities: A Journal of Radical Theory, Culture, and Action. 4. RefWorks.
  4. News: Redefining Globalization to Mean Global Justice for the Environment and the World. Goodman. Amy. February 7, 2002. Democracy Now!. September 21, 2017.
  5. Web site: The Journal of Aesthetics & Protest. www.joaap.org. 2018-04-06.
  6. Web site: Decolonizing the Revolutionary Imagination... Environmental Research Foundation. www.rachel.org. en. 2018-04-06.
  7. Book: Globalize liberation: How to Uproot the System and Build a Better World. 2004. City Lights Books. Solnit, David.. 0872864200. San Francisco, CA. 161–212. 51060187.
  8. Center for Media and Democracy, Sourcewatch

    http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Patrick_Reinsborough

  9. Book: Kaufman, Cynthia. Getting Past Capitalism: History, Vision, Hope. Lexington Books. 2014. 978-0-7391-9065-4. Plymouth UK. 131.
  10. Book: Robé, Chris. Breaking the Spell: A History of Anarchist Filmmakers, Videotape Guerrillas and Digital Ninjas. PM Press. 2017. 978-1-62963-233-9. Oakland. 19.
  11. Web site: SmartMeme pioneers social change storytelling. Farrell. Bryan. February 21, 2011. Waging Nonviolence. September 13, 2017.
  12. Web site: Inside Stories Podcast 27: Patrick Reinsborough of smartMeme. VanDeCarr. Paul. December 30, 2010. Inside Stories. September 20, 2017.
  13. Book: Boyd, Andrew. Beautiful Trouble: a toolbox for revolution. OR Books. 2012. 978-1-935928-57-7. New York. 244–246.
  14. Erler. Carolyn. Spring 2009. Memory and Erasure: Applying Visual Narrative Power Analysis to the Image War Between Dow Chemical Corporation and the International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal. Journal of Cultural Research in Art Education. 27. 42–62. ProQuest.
  15. Book: Graeber, David. Direct action : an ethnography. 2009. 978-1-84935-035-8. Edinburgh. 359–360. 742516001.
  16. Book: Boyd, Andrew. Beautiful Trouble: a toolbox for revolution. OR Books. 2012. 978-1-935928-57-7. New York. 250–252.
  17. Web site: Our Storied Future. Solnit. Rebecca. January 16, 2008. Orion Magazine. September 18, 2017.
  18. Book: Robé, Chris. Breaking the Spell: A History of Anarchist Filmmakers, Videotape Guerrillas and Digital Ninjas. PM Press. 2017. 978-1-62963-233-9. Oakland. 280–281.
  19. Web site: Center for Story-based Strategy - KeyWiki. keywiki.org. en. 2018-02-05.
  20. Web site: Tools in Action: Center for Story-Based Strategy Social Transformation Project. stproject.org. en-US. 2018-02-05.
  21. Web site: IMF World Bank Protests Wrap, Apr 17 2000 Video C-SPAN.org. C-SPAN.org. en-US. 2018-02-05.
  22. News: Protests End With Voluntary Arrests. Montgomery. David. 2000-04-18. Washington Post. 2018-02-05. en-US. 0190-8286.
  23. Web site: IMFWorld Bank Meeting Protest, Sep 3 2002 Video C-SPAN.org. C-SPAN.org. en-US. 2018-02-05.
  24. News: Redefining Globalization to Mean Global Justice for the Environment and the World. Democracy Now!. 2018-02-05.
  25. News: Information Warfare in Miami. Hogue. Ilyse. 2003-11-30. AlterNet. 2018-02-05. Reinsborough. Patrick.
  26. News: THREATS AND RESPONSES: DISSENT; Disagreements About Civil Disobedience Divide America's Antiwar Movement. Zernike. Kate. 2003-03-19. The New York Times. 2018-02-05. en-US. 0362-4331.
  27. Web site: Chicago Indymedia: From Piece Movement to Peace Movement: San Francisco Self-Organizes to Implode Empire. chicago.indymedia.org. en. 2018-04-06.
  28. News: Anti-war activists ready a response / Demonstrators told 'to be nimble' -- S.F. rally today. SFGate. 2018-02-05.
  29. Book: Reinsborough, Patrick. RE:imagining change : how to use story-based strategy to win campaigns, build movements, and change the world. 2010. PM Press. Doyle Canning. 978-1-60486-356-7. Oakland, CA. 614057290.
  30. News: Listening Process (Section 4) - How do we build a more multiracial and cross-class antiwar movement?. 2010-03-26. War Resisters League. 2018-02-05. en.
  31. Web site: Patrick Reinsborough, "Connecting the Imperial Dots" InterActivist Info Exchange. dev.autonomedia.org. 2018-02-05.
  32. Web site: Colombia's U'Wa People: The Real Price of Oil. NACLA. en. 2018-02-05.
  33. News: An Unnatural Journey for Nature's Cause. Twomey. Steve. 2002-04-20. Washington Post. 2018-02-05. en-US. 0190-8286.
  34. Book: Solnit, David. Globalize Liberation: How to Uproot the System and Build a Better World. City Lights Publishers. 2004. 0872864200. San Francisco. 4–8.
  35. Web site: Autumn 2002. Victory for the Uwa. Reclaiming Quarterly.
  36. Knasnabish. Alex. 2007. Insurgent Imaginations. Ephemera. 7. 505–525.
  37. Web site: Patrick Reinsborough - KeyWiki. 2021-06-22. keywiki.org.
  38. Book: Reinsborough, Patrick. Re:Imagining Change: How to use Story-based Strategy to Win Campaigns, Build Movements, and Change the World. 2017. PM Press. Doyle Canning. 978-1-62963-395-4. 2nd. Oakland, CA. 1001434875.
  39. Web site: Nov 19, 2019. Climate Justice: The Copenhagen Moment. YouTube.
  40. Web site: Civil Society Groups Protest Exclusion from U.N. Climate Summit, Photojournalist Detained and Beaten. Now!. Democracy. 2010-12-15. Huffington Post. en-US. 2018-02-05.
  41. Book: Robé, Chris. Breaking the Spell: A History of Anarchist Filmmakers, Videotape Guerrillas and Digital Ninjas. PM Press. 2017. 978-1-62963-233-9. Oakland. 280–291.
  42. Book: Marshall, George. Don't Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change. 2014-08-19. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. 9781620401330. en.
  43. News: The Left Wages War On Donald Trump, Its Godzilla. Benko. Ralph. Forbes. 2018-04-06. en.
  44. Book: Haiven, Max. The radical imagination : social movement research in the age of austerity. 2014. Alex Khasnabish. 978-1-78032-903-1. London, England. 882233383.
  45. Book: Impulse to act : a new anthropology of resistance and social justice. 2016. Othon Alexandrakis. 978-0-253-02326-1. Bloomington. 234. 958876515.
  46. Web site: CIIS Public Programs Podcast. 2021-06-22. CIIS Public Programs Podcast. en-US.

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