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KAI BARROW: Swan Song Manifesto

A child of the late 1950′s longtime left organizer and activist Kai Barrow has a wealth of experience she brings to her work. Here OrgUp excerpts her exit letter as she leaves her staff position at the prison abolition organization, Critical Resistance. In this thoughtful piece, grounded in auto-biography, Kai poses the question “How do we win?” which leads to a second question “What is to be done?”

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RICKKE MANANZALA: Up for Grabs

Rickke Mananzala, FIERCE’s director, reflects on the state of the LGBT movement and the lessons to be learned from recent struggles for gay marriage.

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