Thank you so much for attending our talk!
The full slideshow for the current version of the talk can be found at this link! Make sure you turn on speaker notes so you can see the script.
Here is a video version of the talk, recorded at Anthrocon 2025:
https://youtu.be/UcxQ2CY5zdg?si=Bdcn-xQbipAVGr0S
If you would like to know more about Packmates Mutual Aid, you can request an invite to join us here.
Here are some additional resources you are encouraged to pursue. MANY more resources on building socialism can be found in the Packmates Resource Database for free, including most of the titles listed below.
We also have a Talk Notes page for “Building Real Community in the Furry Fandom” with a link to that full talk.
| Title | Author | Format | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| No Shortcuts: Organizing For Power in the New Gilded Age | Jane McAlevey | Book, Audiobook | “A book by a labor and community organizer who examines the failures and successes of progressive movements in the US. She argues that grassroots mass organizing is the key to building power and winning social change.” |
| Rules to Win By | Jane McAlevey | Book, Audiobook | McAlevey’s final publication before her death to cancer in 2024, this book expands on No Shortcuts with a deeper dive on union struggles and specifically how to negotiate real victories. |
| If We Burn | Vincent Bevins | Book, Audiobook | A thorough analysis of the mass protest decade from 2010 - 2020, breaking down these events and seeking to understand why the results of these protests was often the opposite of their initial demands. |
Read to know what NOT to do in protest movements and organizing structures. | | The Tyranny of Structurelessness | Jo Freeman | Essay | A landmark essay from 1970, critiquing the shortcomings of horizontalist organizing and its tendency to reproduce power imbalances. | | The future of Amazon coders is the present of Amazon warehouse workers | Cory Doctrow | Article | An article on the tightening noose of worker abuse in the tech sector. | | Two weak spots in Big Tech economics | Cory Doctrow | Article | Some important analysis from Doctrow on weaknesses in the structuring of the tech industry. |
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