Team Colors Welcomes a New Member!

Team Colors Collective

www.warmachines.info

5 September 2008

Team Colors Collective – coordinators of the recent journal In the Middle of a

Whirlwind: 2008 Convention Protests, Movement and Movements (Whirlwinds) – is
pleased to announce that Stevie Peace of the Twin Cities has joined the collective.

This addition will not only strengthen the collective in addressing its mission “to explore
questions of everyday resistance, mutual aid, the imposition of work, social reproduction,
class composition, community participation and the commons - by creating engaging
workshops and the producing provocative written documents and articles;” but will allow
Team Colors to build relationships with movements and collectives in the Midwest.

Conor Cash and Kevin Van Meter of Team Colors met Stevie in December of 2005 while
traveling on a research jaunt and volunteering at the Common Ground Health Clinic of
Algiers in New Orleans, Louisiana (an organizing initiative created immediately
following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina). Stevie played a major role in the back-
end operations of the clinic. Immediately they were impressed with his ability to discuss
in remarkable detail the work of the clinic and similar projects in New Orleans, the depth
of his political understanding and interest in discourse, and of course his ability to ramble
late into the night.

In maintaining a communication and a growing friendship since this time, Team Colors
invited Stevie Peace to write for and participate in the Whirlwinds journal project. His
contribution to the journal, entitled “The Desire to Heal: Harm Intervention in a
Landscape of Restorative Justice and Critical Resistance,” is a stunning narrative of his
experiences intertwined with a discussion of harm intervention systems. Anyone familiar
with Team Colors’ materials will recognize this similar notion and use of intertwining
political and personal narratives. Additionally, Stevie participated in the Team Colors
event entitled “Of Friends and Whirlwinds: Movement, Movements and Creating
Communities of Care & Self-Reproduction,” which was held on August 15th at the Red
and Black Café in Portland, Oregon. Transcripts and video of that event will be posted
shortly.
Stevie’s first written contribution with Team Colors is “Gathering Storms: A Team Colors
Statement on the Upcoming Convention Protests,” which sought to challenge other
radicals to rethink the function, purpose and rootedness of the 2008 anti-Convention
mobilizations.

Stevie Peace will participate in all future Team Colors endeavors, including future
Whirlwinds events and writings. The collective looks forward to supporting his own
research into Asian American communities and harm intervention. Stevie’s biography and
contact information follow.

Biography:

Stevie Peace is a writer and organizer from Shoreview, Minnesota. He was first
interviewed by Team Colors through his work at the Common Ground Health Clinic in
New Orleans, and is pleased to be contributing once again for “In The Middle of a
Whirlwind”. Stevie continues his support for Black Liberation in the wake of Gulf Coast
recovery through the Anti-Racist Working Group National Solidarity Network. He
currently works for Restorative Justice Community Action in Minneapolis. Stevie's
writings have been published in AZiNe and Borderlands: Tales from Disputed Territories
Between Races and Cultures. This fall he will be co-facilitating a class on Asian-
American feminist/queer organizing and community-building, as well as beginning a
compilation narrative project of Asian America's political recomposition and its potential
sites of radical struggle. Stevie's analyses and thought processes have spiraled,
boomeranged, flowered and vacillated considerably over the years, but through it all he's
affirmed at least a few things: dignity, honesty, love, and refusing to half-ass. He lives in
St. Paul.

Contact:
Stevie Peace | Team Colors (Twin Cities) can be contacted at: stevie@warmachines.info