Category: Rebuilding the Left

KAI BARROW: Swan Song Manifesto

Community Organizing / Cultural Work / Direct Action / Latest Upgrades / LGBT Movement / Racial Justice / Rebuilding the Left

Tags: Black Panthers, Community Organizing, Critical Resistance, Cultural Work, Culture, Culture Work, Malcolm X, movement-building, Prison Abolition, What is to be done?

July 1, 2011 0

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?”

LEVINS MORALES: Resisting Repression

International Solidarity / Palestine Solidarity / Rebuilding the Left

March 1, 2011 0

Ricardo Levins-Morales shares his reflections on the implications of the recent repression of anti-war activists in the United States.

HARMONY GOLDBERG: Turning Left

Rebuilding the Left

March 1, 2011 0

In this reprint from Left Turn’s new issue, OrgUp editor, Harmony Goldberg, reflects on the development of the U.S. left over the last decade.

SORIANO: Transformative Communications

Cultural Work / Direct Action / Palestine Solidarity / Racial Justice / Rebuilding the Left

January 11, 2011 13

Jen Soriano, communications visionary, calls for imagination and innovation in how we organize, and maybe more importantly how we communicate.

Left Turn & The Movement: 2000 – 2010

Rebuilding the Left

October 1, 2010 1

In this piece, two of the committed editors of Left Turn magazine walk us through the birth and tenure of their ten year history.

Radical Approaches to Reform Struggles

Community Organizing / Rebuilding the Left

September 1, 2010 0

Community organizers from the New York Study Group reflect on: “How do we develop more radical and revolutionary approaches to reform struggles?”

Transformative Organizing Theory Panel

Community Organizing / Racial Justice / Rebuilding the Left

Tags: Ai-Jen Poo, Cindy Wiesner, Eric Mann, Labor Community Strategy Center, Ng'ethe Maina, Patrisse Cullors, Steve Williams, Transformative Organizing, US Social Forum

August 1, 2010 2

USSF Panel Video: “Transformative Organizing: Conscious Organizers Build Anti-racist, Anti-imperialist Politics in Working Class Communities of Color”