Category Archives: Organizing Method

What is Organizing?

Posted on March 16, 2018 by Richard Moser

Organizing is a practice aimed at helping people create the social movements and political organizations necessary to wage campaigns and win power.  How do we make real the promises of democracy? Organizing is a time-tested strategy for empowering the people. … Continue reading →

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What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia

Posted on March 7, 2018 by Richard Moser

  If you are wondering how one of the greatest strikes in recent history came out of a place we were told was a “Trump County” backwater then read this. This slender book packs quite a punch. Elizabeth Catte takes … Continue reading →

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Jackson Rising

Posted on January 25, 2018 by Richard Moser

Also in Counterpunch “Revolution is based on land. Land is the basis of all independence. Land is the basis of freedom, justice, and equality….” Malcom X Jackson Rising is the most important book I have read in a long time. … Continue reading →

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How Progressives Can Compete for Major Office: A Class Analysis of Political Paralysis

Posted on January 4, 2018 by Richard Moser

  Also at Counterpunch Learning from the Green Party Defeat in New Jersey.   Local electoral gains are beginning to add up. The Green Party won 45 local seats nationwide in 2017 for a total of 141 in 18 states. Democratic … Continue reading →

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Whiteness Won’t Be Wished Away

Posted on December 21, 2017 by Richard Moser

Ninth in the series: Organize the White Working Class! White Workers Have Double Consciousness White workers have at least a dual identity — we are both workers and white. The history of white working-class community organizing as told by Amy Sonnie and … Continue reading →

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Community Organizing in Philly and New York

Posted on September 5, 2017 by Richard Moser

Eight in the series: Organize the White Working Class! In Hillbilly Nationalists, James Tracy and Amy Sonnie shows the hidden depths of working class resistance and organizing. The pathbreaking work of Chicago’s white workers in JOIN, The Young Patriots and … Continue reading →

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The Young Patriots, The Original Rainbow Coalition and Rising Up Angry

Posted on August 27, 2017 by Richard Moser

Seventh in the Series: Organize the White Working Class! Young Patriots* In the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, the social movements crossed over into revolutionary territory. The victories and the failures of the civil rights movement, massive urban rebellions, the … Continue reading →

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

Posted on May 19, 2017 by Richard Moser

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 by Richard Moser

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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White Privilege

Posted on March 23, 2017 by Richard Moser

  Third in the series: Organize the White Working Class! Also in Counterpunch. White Skin Privilege White privilege is a thing. It’s just not the same thing the corporate Democrats use to boss us around with.  The concept of white privilege … Continue reading →

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