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Category Archives: Organizing Method
Bernie or Bust: Strategy, Sheepdogs and Synergy
Bernie Or Bust: Pioneers of Electoral Revolt This article also appeared in CounterPunch. Both Intervention And Exit A new book, Bernie or Bust, tells the story of a small group of electoral activists that made a big difference. They … Continue reading
Posted in American Culture, electoral strategy, Green Party, History, Martin Luther King, Movement Culture, organizing, Organizing Method, Organizing Strategy, revolutionary strategy, Strategy
Tagged Democratic Party, election strategy, Green Party, Organizational Culture, organizing, organizing strategy, union organizing
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The People Made the First New Deal. Can the People Make Another?
Also find this article at Counterpunch. Massive Protest and Organizing Created the New Deal The kind of electoral victories we need will take far more than standard electioneering and Facebook debates. Let’s look at what it took to create the New … Continue reading
Posted in American Culture, electoral strategy, History, Labor Movement, Movement Culture, organizing, Organizing Method, Organizing Strategy, revolutionary strategy, Strategy, union organzing, unions, War, Working Class
Tagged Corporate Power, Democratic Party, election strategy, History, Labor Movement, non-violence, Organizational Culture, organizing, revolutionary strategy, unions
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What is Organizing?
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
What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia
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
Jackson Rising
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
How Progressives Can Compete for Major Office: A Class Analysis of Political Paralysis
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
Whiteness Won’t Be Wished Away
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
Community Organizing in Philly and New York
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
The Young Patriots, The Original Rainbow Coalition and Rising Up Angry
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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Tagged American Revolution, Movement Strategy, non-violence, Organizational Culture, organizing
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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
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