Category Archives: Martin Luther King

Transformation and Reconstruction: The Means and Measure of Revolutionary Change

  The fourth and final post in the series: How Do We Organize a Hundred Million?   Click to read One, Two, Three. Transformation and Reconstruction: the Means and Measure of Revolutionary Change To organize millions, the revolution has to … Continue reading

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Universal Values are Revolutionary Values

Third in the Series: How Do We Organize a Hundred Million? Also find this at PopularResistance and CounterPunch. Universal Values Are Revolutionary Values If we want to organize a hundred million, we must not only go where people live and … Continue reading

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Social Movement Unionism: Right Here! Right Now!

Dedicated to the Chicago Teachers Union and teacher activists everywhere. Seventh in the Series: On Organizing.  See What is Social Movement Unionism? for the first part of this post including the Battle for Seattle, Occupy and the Great American Boycott. Right … Continue reading

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What is Social Movement Unionism?

Sixth in the series: On Organizing What is Social Movment Unionism? The rarest and most politically charged form of unionism, social movement unionism is also the most difficult form of working-class rebellion to define or realize. When the borderlines between working … Continue reading

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Weaving Our Garment of Destiny

Tenth and final post on MLK. Weaving Our Garment of Destiny All life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied into a single garment of destiny…We are made to live together because of the … Continue reading

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Where Do We Go From Here? Organize!

Ninth in a series of  ten posts on MLK. Where Do We Go From Here? “Our most powerful nonviolent weapon is, as would be expected, also our most demanding, that is organization.  To produce change people must be organized to … Continue reading

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Up Against the Wall: Corporate Power and Empire

Eight in a series of ten posts on MLK.  Corporate Power and Empire [T]he Black revolution is much more than a struggle for the rights of Negroes. It is forcing America to face all its interrelated flaws—racism, poverty, militarism, and … Continue reading

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A New Revolutionary Strategy

Seventh in a series of  ten posts on MLK. The Revolution in Revolutionary Strategy “The way of acquiescence leads to moral and spiritual suicide. The way of violence leads to bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers. But, … Continue reading

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The Civil Rights Revolution is the American Revolution

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

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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