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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
David and Goliath. Greens Against the Machines.
We Are Learning How To Battle Giants. The giant banks and political machines that control the Democratic and Republican parties of New Jersey represent the reign of money, power and war. We need a real political contest to restore the … Continue reading
New Jersey is a One Party State
The race for governor of New Jersey is the most important election of 2017. With so much at stake you might think the people would have a real choice, and they do, its just not the choices presented by the … Continue reading
Posted in electoral strategy, History, Organizing Strategy
Tagged Green Party, Organizational Culture, organizing
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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
Posted in American Culture, History, Martin Luther King, Movement Culture, Organizing Method, Organizing Strategy, Racism, revolutionary strategy, Strategy, White Privilege, White Supremacy, Working Class
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
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! 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
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
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