No More Heroes

People with privilege often engage with the world as saviors, and leave devastation behind. The world does not need more heroes, we need systemic solutions to racism, patriarchy, colonialism and capitalism.
Award-winning journalist Jordan Flaherty brings us inside the dark and politically twiste [...]
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People with privilege often engage with the world as saviors, and leave devastation behind. The world does not need more heroes, we need systemic solutions to racism, patriarchy, colonialism and capitalism.
Award-winning journalist Jordan Flaherty brings us inside the dark and politically twisted mind of the savior. Starting with Brandon Darby, an FBI informant whose rise within radical circles showed how movements are susceptible to a particular style of political heroism, Flaherty introduces us to would-be liberators and the damage they cause. We meet the young and idealistic college graduates who join Teach For America and displace unionized African American teachers. We hear anti-sex-work crusaders and the marginalized women their programs put behind bars. We see Red Cross coffers grow at the expense of local communities who consistently do more with less. And we also see a growing response to these dynamics: grassroots and street-based uprisings like those in Ferguson, Missouri, creating accountable movements focused on real, systemic change.
Insightful and unsparing, No More Heroesis an indispensable tool for social justice activists, reminding us that charity is not solidarity: saviors need not apply.
Jordan Flaherty has produced news and documentaries for Al Jazeera s Fault Lines, The Laura Flanders Show, and Democracy Now. He is an award-winning journalist who has appeared on television and radio shows includingAnderson Cooper 360, CNN Headline News, andNews and Noteson NPR. He is author ofFloodlines: Community and Resistance from Katrina to the Jena Six.
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