Demand the Impossible: A Radical Manifesto

FEATURING BILL AYERS – We find ourselves at an extraordinary crossroads today in the US. While anger against racist violence and economic injustice is at boiling point, a segment of American society is so vehemently frightened of losing power and privilege that it is determined to elect a demagogic farce of a candidate.

It might feel to progressives that we are fighting defensively just to preserve the modest gains we have won. But my guest Bill Ayers, who knows a thing or two about political organizing, says that perhaps we are lacking the confidence to imagine achieving our wildest, most radical dreams.

His new book Demand the Impossible: A Radical Manifesto has been lauded by Angela Davis as one that “should be read by everyone who wants to believe that ‘another world is possible.'”

Bill Ayers, Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago (now retired) once upon a time, the co-founder of the Weather Underground movement, a radical organization that sought to end the Vietnam War through acts of property destruction as civil disobedience. He is the author of Public Enemy: Confessions of an American Dissident. His latest book is Demand the Impossible: A Radical Manifesto.