Category Archives: Organizing Method

Evolution to Revolution: Rethinking the Organizing Model

Posted on February 14, 2016 by Richard Moser

Fifth in the series: On Organizing The Revolution for US labor is Social Movement Unionism. The strategic question, as always: how do we get there? Organizers may detest service unionism but that is the world we are in. Can we … Continue reading →

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Planning and Opportunity

Posted on February 7, 2016 by Richard Moser

Forth in the series: On Organizing   Planning and Opportunity The vast majority of movement work today is reactive. In part that is a result of the defensive posture of the labor and social movements but it is also a … Continue reading →

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Reframing: From “Electability” to Organizing Encounter

Posted on January 27, 2016 by Richard Moser

  First post in a series on Election Talk Making history is far better than predicting it. Let’s practice turning speculation into an organizing opportunity. Perhaps the most common remark I hear when taking to people about the Sanders campaign … Continue reading →

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Both Interest And Ideals: Working Idealism In

Posted on January 10, 2016 by Richard Moser

Sixth in the Series: On Organizing   Working Idealism In : Engage the People Peace and economic justice is not something we need just for the workers of the Maquiladoras or the people of the Middle East: it is necessary … Continue reading →

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Labor and the Cold War: The Epic Fail

Posted on January 2, 2016 by Richard Moser

Fifth in the series: The Principles of Organzing     Cold War Liberalism During the Cold War, Labor unions violated their own sacred principle of solidarity by joining with imperial elites and corporate interests to weaken militant trade unionism abroad … Continue reading →

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The Union Triad: Community Activism

Posted on October 17, 2015 by Richard Moser

The last post in the Union Triad Series. The Union Triad: Community Activism Local communities are important venues for consciousness raising and for leadership development. The key, it seems, is finding members well suited and willing to devote time and energy … Continue reading →

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The Union Triad: Community Building

Posted on October 10, 2015 by Richard Moser

This is the third in a series of four posts on the “union triad.” Community Building Community building has much in common with organizing.  Successful organizers are usually embedded in communities. Of all activity in the labor movement community building is … Continue reading →

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The Union Triad: Organize!

Posted on October 5, 2015 by Richard Moser

Many Americans, including many radicals, think that the US has no revolutionary tradition to call its own.  To them I say: Grace Lee Boggs! Second in the series on the Union Triad Organize! Since the 19th century unionists have been … Continue reading →

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Where Do We Go From Here? Organize!

Posted on August 29, 2015 by Richard Moser

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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A New Revolutionary Strategy

Posted on August 9, 2015 by Richard Moser

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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