
Contributing Opinion Writer @Guardian Editor @WagingNV and @ForgeOrganizing Email me: [email protected] Fight me: [email protected]
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My newest article from the Guardian. May be a bit controversial (and I wish I'd named more clearly that I think multiple kinds of organizations need to exist, we've just overadopted a certain model)
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Agreed. Though like I've said before, I'm convinced Democrats are trying to avoid a civil war, and Republicans seem to know that something close to it is the only way they're going to be able to hold onto power.
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It makes sense we feel stuck, our playbook is limited, for now. Other countries have clearer paths and precedent for removing presidents, the capacity for national general strikes to shut down the economy, and the ability for new parties to form. Without these, we struggle.
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our collaborative issue is live! this was an amazing group effort led by @ClarissaMBrooks and with work from so many unseen hands including @marcytoons @rkdooleydesign @leftiecowboy @nashwabaw @lizziesuarez_ @ThisIsRevShow @cayden and many more
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@HarhieHan 's new book about an evangelical church is packed with touching moments of vulnerability & contains important lessons for organizers struggling within families & structures that feel hostile to their politics and values. By @ThisisRevShow
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For organizers who want to learn what it takes to get an article from pitch to publication. This series of reading assignments, writing assignments, and co-editing, will be led for 6 weeks by our developmental editor Akin Olla @ThisisRevShow. Apply now!
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Akin Olla’s @ThisIsRevShow recent article on Divestment organizing strategies
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A former student organizer proposes a strategy for the divestment movement to achieve victory while fundamentally transforming the organizing landscape in the process. By Akin Olla (@ThisisRevShow)
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I wish I could give him a swirly. He's the kind of person my progressive friends would have defended a few years ago. We have to let go of liberal intellectuals, they have little substance and when they do, it's just watered down socialism at best.
This conviction is already boosting Trump, his donation website has crashed from the influx of donations. Polling suggested it would help him as much as hurt him. His whole thing is that the system is crooked and against him. This only vindicates that. It's good but not the end.
Convicted felons should absolutely be viable political candidates! We need to focus on who Trump is ideologically, not some idea that people who have been convicted or are even in prison (like socialist Eugene Debs was, & like many of our Black political leaders currently are).
My feed has become almost completely right wing overnight, has this happened to anyone else or did my argument with a fascist convince twitter that this is how I want to spend my time?
Another great article by @KeithKelleher6 I'm proud to have worked on!
A follow-up to @KeithKelleher6 's “How Four Black Women Changed Labor Organizing Forever”, this captures the contract fight that followed and the genius and fortitude required to create one of the most important unions in U.S. history. @SEIUhciimk @SEIU
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hi, here is my latest on whether Black people deserve this country and this flag because our ancestors "built it." What about about our ancestors who tried to destroy it? Who refused to build it? Did they not make our freedom possible?
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Fetterman is the worst. How you gonna ignore one of the sweetest comrades in the world? Personal anger aside, this is why I think the left needs to take the risk of being more rigorous & exclusive about candidate selection. The current strategy is risky too.
Last week, Fetterman got on Fox News to criticize Biden's liquified gas export pause.
In 2018, he had joined Sunrise and @RepDanielle to rally against fracked gas pipelines.
When a constituent asked why he flipped, he mocked her, then walked into a member-only elevator.
In 50 years we're going to find out ADOS was part of COINTELPRO part 2. It literally brings NO benefit to the struggle.
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The Political Wisdom of @JonathanChait, in 4 parts:
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Or at least, Kendrick and Drake both lost in their attempt at taking the moral high ground and failing to remotely live up to the weight that comes with the crown. @ThisIsRevShow
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