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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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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Doyle Canning and Rachel Laforest reflect on the connections between recent Right to the City actions in Boston and the #occupy movement.
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Tell us what you think about Occupy Wall Street and weigh in on the debate between Sally Kohn and Subhash Kateel.
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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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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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During the 2010 U.S. Social Forum, nine sectors of excluded workers came together to found the Excluded Workers Congress.
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Purvi Shah and Charles Elsesser explore their model of community lawyering and openings to take fights beyond defensive into offensive action.
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Community Organizing / Cultural Work / Urban Struggles / Worker Organizing
Tags: ACORN, Antonio Villaraigosa, Community Organizing, Consciousness Raining, democracy, Economic, Industrial Areas Foundation, Left, Los Angeles, movement-building, Ng'etha Maina, Obama, Social Justice Leadership
April 7, 2010
Ng’ethe Maina makes an honest investigation into our strengths and weaknesses and sheds new light on avenues for innovation, and transformation.
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