Legacy Project Sunday Update (Patreon)

Good evening patrons! We wanted to let you know there's no new tribute panel today but we have two more lined up for the next two Sundays. "Identity on the Left" with Vivek Chibber, Todd McGowan and Cedric Johnson. As well as "Technology and Justice" with Kirsten Per  Andersen, Arthur Holland Michel, and Ramesh Srinivasan.

As some of you may have noticed we had been putting off updating the about section, revising the membership tiers and adding new graphics and imagery to acknowledge Michael's passing. We have put it off because it's painful but today we finally did it.  We wrote a new about section and put up the beautiful new graphic and banner.  Now that it's done it's still sad but it's also a bit of a relief knowing there is so much more work to be done. That there are so many ways to keep the community he built connected. One of the worst parts of Michael's sudden passing is that he was just getting started and wanted to put so much more work out there. The legacy project is our way of doing what we can to help continue some of his unfinished work. Below is the new about section and tier benefits. We are looking forward to hearing your thoughts.

About The Michael Brooks Legacy Project

Welcome to the Michael Brooks Legacy Project! Michael connected so many  people from around the globe, reminding us of our shared humanity and  making us belly laugh at the same time. We want to keep this digital  space alive as a home base for all the members of our community. We hope  to stay connected and encourage one another to keep learning, growing  and being good to ourselves and one another.

We currently have  several projects under way to honor Michael’s legacy.  These include a  documentary film about his life and work, a book of transcripts from his  shows and interviews, and a brand new show, “The Brief Wondrous Life of Michael Brooks,” hosted by his sister Lisha. Conversations with friends and collaborators about Michael's life and unfinished work. Your patronage will make all this possible.

As  a patron you will have access to the complete TMBS show archive,  including the original Illicit Histories, as well as a new series of  Illicit Histories that Michael was looking forward to making this year.  Jeremy D. Johnson will be hosting a Brooks Books Reading Group and Julia  Eccles has a beautiful vision for a Michael Brooks Global Travel Guide  we hope to create with all of you.

We are also working with  Jacobin to create a Michael Brooks award for left journalism, something  we hope will continue long after all of our lifetimes.

We can’t  express how grateful we are for the kindness and love we have felt from  all of you around the globe. Thank you for giving us the financial  support to make these projects come to life.

Below is an excerpt  from the first panel discussion of the Michael Brooks Tribute Series.  Thanks to Russell Sbriglia, we hope to make this an annual event. This is from Dr. Cornel West’s brilliant conversation with Slavoj Žižek.

"When we (Michael and Cornal)  first met, I said to myself, he’s a fellow  blues man, he’s a fellow jazz man, he’s got a soulfulness about him, and  that soulfulness is not just the sharing of a soothing sweetness  against the backdrop of a sensitivity of catastrophe, but it’s also  Socratic, it’s deeply self critical, he’s willing to muster the courage  to scrutinize himself…that’s where his sense of the comic comes from,  that he doesn’t take himself so seriously that he can’t also open  himself up to the ways in which he has been shaped by some of the very  things he’s critical of. That’s what it is to be a human being at the  deepest level."

                                                                                                                                   -   Dr. Cornel West

New Tier Benefits:

Brooksy

• Full access to complete TMBS archiveShows
  Post games
  Sunday shows
  Illicit histories
  
• Early access to "The Brief Wondrous Life of Michael Brooks" show coming Spring 2021
• Membership to Michael Brooks Legacy groups, including:Brooks Books reading group
  A Michael Brooks Global Travel Guide
  
• As a Brooksy, you’ll help sustain and make possible the funding we need to create the more costly and long term Legacy Projects:A documentary about Michael's life and work
  A transcribed book of Michael’s interviews and monologues
  The Michael Brooks award for Journalism

Illicit History Doc ProducerIllicit History Doc Producer

Access to all Brooksy benefits

• Support the production of Illicit History, Michael’s passion project
• Have your name listed as a producer as we work to finish the list of Illicit History episodes Michael planned on making

Show Crew:

• Access to all Brooksy & Illicit History Doc Producer benefits
• Help  shape the Legacy Project! Get an exclusive invitation to quarterly  phone conference calls to give your input about the legacy project and  all future legacy ideas

Brooks Brother

• Access to all other tier benefits
• Receive sneak peeks of exclusive Documentary footage as it’s being made

Documentary Producer

• Access to all benefits
• Receive an exclusive Producer credit on the Michael Brooks Documentary

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We are wishing you a healthy and safe week ahead.