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Category Archives: Movement Culture
Jobs or Income Now!: JOIN and White Working Class Leadership
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
Posted in American Culture, Martin Luther King, Movement Culture, Organizing Method, Organizing Strategy, Racism, revolutionary strategy, Strategy, Uncategorized, White Privilege, White Supremacy
Tagged American Revolution, Martin Luther King, Movement Strategy, non-violence, Organizational Culture, organizing
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The Sanders Campaign, Greater Appalachia and Young Workers
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
White Privilege
Third in the series: Organize the White Working Class! White Skin Privilege Writing for the John Brown Commemoration Committee in 1965, Theodore Allen innovated the discourse on “white skin privilege.” In 1967 he co-authored “White Blindspot” and in 1969 published … Continue reading
Ted Allen and The Invention of the White Race
Second in the series: Organize the White Working Class! This article also appeared in CounterPunch. Ted Allen There is no better place to start organizing than with political strategy inspired by Theodore W. Allen’s classic book: The Invention the White … Continue reading
Organize the White Working Class!
First in the series: Organize the White Working Class! “ . . . their (the poor “whites”) own position, vis-a-vis the rich and powerful . . . was not improved, but weakened, by the white-skin privilege system.”– Theodore W. Allen, Class … Continue reading
No Ban! No Wall! No War?
This article also appeared in Counterpunch No Ban! No Wall! No War? As I watched the corporate news on demonstrations against Trump’s travel ban, I was struck by the fact that on-going wars in the Middle East were not mentioned. … Continue reading
Standing Rock: Challenge to the Establishment, School for the Social Movements
This article also appeared in Counterpunch Standing Rock: Challenge to the Establishment, School for the Social Movements. Opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline began in October 2014. Young warriors of the Standing Rock Sioux established the Sacred Stone Camp in … Continue reading
