Author Archives: Richard Moser

About Richard Moser

Richard Moser has 40 years experience as an organizer and activist in the labor, student, peace, and community movements. Moser is author of "New Winter Soldiers: GI and Veteran Dissent During the Vietnam Era," and co-editor with Van Gosse of "The World the Sixties Made: Politics and Culture in Recent America." Moser lives in Colorado.

Jobs or Income Now!: JOIN and White Working Class Leadership

Posted on May 19, 2017

Sixth in the Series: Organize the White Working Class! Yes, that is Harry Belafonte visiting JOIN in 1965. Peggy Terry is on far right. JOIN and Emergence of White Working Class Leadership. Jobs or Income Now (JOIN) was a Chicago … Continue reading →

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The Sanders Campaign, Greater Appalachia and Young Workers

Posted on May 5, 2017

This article also appeared in CounterPunch. Tenth in the Series: Organize the White Working Class! The white working class is ready. Are you? The 2016 Democratic primary gives us a way of assessing the potential for organizing among white workers. This … Continue reading →

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Empire Abroad. Empire at Home.

Posted on April 26, 2017

This article also appeared in CounterPunch. “For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?” Americans are taught to revel in our power and supremacy. Over 650 major military bases … Continue reading →

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Radical White Workers During the Last Revolution

Posted on April 20, 2017

Fifth in the series: Organize the White Working Class! White Working Class Organizing in the ‘60s and ‘70s “Poor whites are here today…to make ourselves visible to a society whose continued existence depends on the denial of our existence. We … Continue reading →

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Trump, Empire and Our Long Retreat to Tyranny

Posted on April 13, 2017

This article also appeared in Counterpunch. There has been a lot of worry about the Constitution and basic democratic rights since Trump’s election. And worry we should. But, Trump did not fall from the sky, he is a product of … Continue reading →

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Strategy Begins by Reclaiming the Discourse on White Privilege

Posted on April 5, 2017

Fourth in the series: Organize the White Working Class! Reclaim The Discourse on White Privilege White privilege, an indispensable tool for teaching white people how we had been blinded and bribed into becoming the tools and fools of the elites, … Continue reading →

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On Leverage*

Posted on March 28, 2017

Originally posted on Revolt Against Plutocracy:
#leverage Revolt Against Plutocracy’s trans-partisan, inside/outside strategy of electoral revolt against the establishment will remain active to let Democrats know in all national elections, we are #ProgressiveOrBust. Party affiliation is of secondary consideration, a…

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