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About Richard Moser

Richard Moser has over 40 years experience as an organizer and activist in the labor, student, peace, and community movements. Moser is the 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.

Push, Pull, and Pivot: Bernie Sanders and the Movement

Posted on June 28, 2015 by Richard Moser

The fifth in a series of seven posts on Electoral Strategy. Push, Pull, Pivot The inside/outside strategy depends on our own capacity to view other wings of the movement — positions we may not initially agree with — as leverage. The … Continue reading →

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Towards a Transformative Electoral Strategy

Posted on June 21, 2015 by Richard Moser

The fourth in a series of seven posts on Electoral Strategy. Towards A Transformative Electoral Strategy Now here is the hard part: What strategy might enhance the existing one but that also, of necessity, starts from the conditions at hand? … Continue reading →

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The Civil Rights Revolution is the American Revolution

Posted on June 12, 2015 by Richard Moser

Sixth is a series of ten posts on MLK. An American Revolution And I knew that as they were sitting in, they were really standing up for the best in the American dream. And taking the whole nation back to … Continue reading →

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A Revolution of Values

Posted on June 4, 2015 by Richard Moser

Fifth is a series of  ten posts on MLK. A Revolution of Values “Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal opposition to poverty, racism … Continue reading →

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Beloved Community

Posted on May 30, 2015 by Richard Moser

Fourth in a series of posts on MLK. The Beloved Community “But the end is reconciliation; the end is redemption; the end is the creation of the beloved community.”[1] The beloved community may seem a distant utopia but it was … Continue reading →

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Our Choice: Fear and Fatalism or Confidence and Purpose

Posted on May 24, 2015 by Richard Moser

Third in a series of Posts on MLK.  Confidence and Purpose or Fear and Fatalism? “We shall overcome because the arc of a moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” We’re going to win our freedom because both … Continue reading →

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How We Surrender To Or Resist Triangulation

Posted on May 17, 2015 by Richard Moser

As the crisis deepens we will likely approach a shift in the equation of risk. The dangers we face to make the big changes will become less threatening than the dangers we face in continuing on the current course. Continue reading →

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Triangulation: Strategy of the Two-Party System

Posted on May 11, 2015 by Richard Moser

The second of seven posts on Electoral Strategy   Triangulation While it’s still stunning to watch the DNC repeat the losing strategy of 2016, we should know this is part of a decades-long history of moving toward the right: aka … Continue reading →

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Every Four Years: Toward a Transformative Electoral Strategy

Posted on May 6, 2015 by Richard Moser

This is the first post in a seven part series on Elections.  Every Four Years It’s not what they do that matters, it’s what we do that’s so important.  The people are the single most important part of the electoral … Continue reading →

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Non-Violence as Strategy: Love as Politics

Posted on May 3, 2015 by Richard Moser

Second in a series of ten posts on the strategies of MLK. Nonviolent Strategy Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to … Continue reading →

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