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
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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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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James Mumm reflects on how we can turn the political disappointments of 2009 into opportunities for organizing and movement-building.
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Cindy Wiesner from Grassroots Global Justice reflects on the organizing towards the 2010 U.S. Social Forum which will take place in Detroit in June.
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