Category Archives: Organizing Method

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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Ted Allen and The Invention of the White Race

Posted on March 9, 2017 by Richard Moser

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 →

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Standing Rock: Challenge to the Establishment, School for the Social Movements

Posted on December 6, 2016 by Richard Moser

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 →

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Universal Values are Revolutionary Values

Posted on June 9, 2016 by Richard Moser

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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Learn From the Bern

Posted on May 28, 2016 by Richard Moser

Second post in the series: How Do We Organize A Hundred Million?  Learn from the Bern: Learn the Inside/Outside Strategy The inside/outside strategy is a way to learn as events unfold. It is important that we learn from, work with, … Continue reading →

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How Do We Organize A Hundred Million?

Posted on May 25, 2016 by Richard Moser

First in a series: How Do We Organize a Hundred Million? How Do We Organize a Hundred Million? The strategic considerations discussed in this series of posts assumes that it will take a hundred million activist in the US and … Continue reading →

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Social Movement Unionism: Right Here! Right Now!

Posted on April 2, 2016 by Richard Moser

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?

Posted on March 13, 2016 by Richard Moser

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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