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Astra Taylor

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Astra Taylor is a documentary filmmaker, writer, and political organizer. She is the director, most recently, of What Is Democracy? and the author of Democracy May Not Exist, but We’ll Miss It When It’s Gone and the American Book Award winning The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age. She is co-founder of the Debt Collective, a union for debtors, and contributed the foreword to the group’s new book, Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay: The Case for Economic Disobedience and Debt Abolition.

Astra Taylor Books

End Times Fascism book cover

End Times Fascism

Naomi Klein
Solidarity book cover

Solidarity

Leah Hunt-Hendrix
A World of Women book cover

A World of Women

J. D. Beresford
Remake the World book cover

Remake the World

Astra Taylor
Can't Pay, Won't Pay book cover

Can't Pay, Won't Pay

Debt Collective
Democracy May Not Exist, But We'll Miss It When It's Gone book cover

Democracy May Not Exist, But We'll Miss It When It's Gone

Astra Taylor
The Right to Have Rights book cover

The Right to Have Rights

Stephanie DeGooyer
The People's Platform book cover

The People's Platform

Astra Taylor
Stay Solid! book cover

Stay Solid!

Matt Hern
Examined Life book cover

Examined Life

Astra Taylor
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