After visiting Occupy sites across the nation, Take Back the Land’s Max Rameau calls for a movement that both occupies and liberates.
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Maria Poblet and Rose Arrieta of CJJC share knowledge and insights about the organizing process of the Oakland General Strike.
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Organizers from Community Voices Heard & VOCAL reflect on their organizing around revenue and their relationships with the Occupy movement.
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Community Organizing / Occupy Wall Street / Poor Peoples Movements / Urban Struggles / Worker Organizing
Tags: amishapatel, austerity, Chicago, communitylabor, Economic Crisis, grassroots collaborative, Occupy Wall Street, occupychicago, TIF, urban struggles
November 1, 2011
At a time when city after city is holding back austerity measures, organizers in Chicago are asking policy makers to stop making cuts.
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Amanda Devecka-Rinear, lead organizer on the Make Wall Street Pay Campaign at National People’s Action, shares her reflections on #OccupyWallStreet.
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Willie Baptist and Jan Rehmann recently released a new book, titled Pedagogy of the Poor: Building the Movement to End Poverty.
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Authors Amy Sonnie and James Tracy discuss their forthcoming book, Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power.
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Excluded Workers Congress organizers dialogue with scholars about the relationship developing between the EWC and the traditional labor movement.
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Community Organizing / Direct Action / Immigrant Rights Movement / Poor Peoples Movements / Worker Organizing
Tags: AFL-CIO, domestic worker bill of rights, Erica Smiley, Excluded Workers Congress, Frances Fox Piven, Linda Oalican, Premilla Nadasen, Saket Soni, worker power, Workers Centers
May 1, 2011
Excluded Workers Congress organizers dialogue with scholars about the importance and limitations of fighting for policy reform and symbolic victories.
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Organizing veteran Paul Gestos shares lessons from his trip to Argentina towards the building of an unemployed workers movement in the United States.
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