Robin Kelley reflects on the hopes and visions that underlie social movements and that can help transcend narrowness and cynicism.
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Community Organizing / Cultural Work / Racial Justice / Worker Organizing
Tags: Ai-Jen Poo, Community Reinvestment Bank, Domestic Workers United, Economic Crisis, Inter-Alliance Dialogue, labor movement, organizing model, Organizing with love, U.S. Social Forum, United Front
February 1, 2010
Ai-jen Poo reflects on the current political moment and offers lessons from her 15 years of on-the-ground organizing.
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Hashim and Tiffany Yeomans-Benford share their vision of love-based action and why we won’t win if we don’t open our hearts.
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Makani explores how the Obama Movement obscured and now pushes us to redefine our notions of “progressive”, “the State” and “the Left.”
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Aarti Shahani interviewed Roberto Lovato, founder of Presente.org, about the successful campaigns to demand Lou Dobbs’ ouster from CNN.
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Community Organizing / Cultural Work / Direct Action / Electoral Organizing
Tags: Dance Crew, Gramsci, hegemony, Hip Hop Media Lab, immigrant rights, Immigrant Rights Movement, New Media, Obama, social networks, Terry Marshall
December 1, 2009
In this interview, Terry Marshall examines the role of new media and the battle of ideas in left strategy for the 21st century.
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