Welcome to The Dig. My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from AS220 in Providence, Rhode Island.

Trump's election has a lot of people upset and ready to organize. Longtime activists for economic and racial justice are confronted with the welcome challenge of freshly angry hordes

pouring into meetings and protests, looking to take action.

It's the silver lining to what is otherwise a nightmare, but it's all that we've got, and,

given the circumstances, we have to embrace it.

Today's episode was recorded at a live event I did recently with journalist Sarah Jaffe,

who was on tour talking about her new book, Necessary Trouble, Americans in Revolt.

The book is about recent social movements.

Movements we must expand and deepen to defeat the far right and to finally start winning. I'm very happy to have my friend and colleague Sarah Jaffe here, who has a very exciting

and unfortunately more pertinent than ever could have been imagined, a new book out called

Necessary Trouble Americans in Revolt. Sarah is a Nation Institute

fellow and an independent journalist covering labor, economic justice, social movements,

politics, gender, and pop culture. Her work has appeared in the nation, the weak,

the American prospect, the Washington Post, the Atlantic,

and many other publications. She is the co-host with Michelle Chen of Dissent Magazine's

Belaborg podcast. And Necessary Trouble is her first book. Sarah's going to start off reading

a passage from the book. So, yeah, I've been thinking about the miscellaneous parts of this book that are more relevant

than ever, and I wanted to read something from my last chapter about Occupy Sandy, because

I think that one of the things that's going to be more relevant than ever is localized movements to take care of each other.

So winter was coming in New York when we got the news about Hurricane Sandy.

The storm as it moved north had been caught up in an unusual weather pattern.

In the words of one weather channel hurricane expert, it was becoming a monstrous hybrid vortex, a combination

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