Community Safety in the Fourth World War: Notes on Insurgent Conviviality (Vagabonds)

We are living through what the Zapatistas call the 'Fourth World War'-a war waged by the forces of colonialism and racial capitalism-that insists we forget our victories, relinquish our practices of care, and abandon our struggle.For communities targeted and ravaged by policing and militarization, safety is a paramount concern.But where do we turn? To the state, with its warped ideas of security and all its attendant violences?Drawing on more than a decade of 'convivial research' and 'insurgent learning', alongside struggles across the San Francisco Bay Area, and in dialogue with struggles across the Global South, the authors argue for self-organized, locally rooted insurgent conviviality.This, they claim, can be observed through a community safety with five critical elements: community self-defense; fierce care; assembly; knowledge production and self-representation; and autonomous justice. Advancing conviviality as a praxis, as a counterforce to racial patriarchal capital, this book