Organizing is not just about showing your ideas to other people. It’s about building relationships and shared understanding of shared conditions that is the fertile ground in which shared and radical ideas can grow. More than showing, this is about listening and asking questions. Of course, organizers are not just passive in this process but make sure to bring all of these different elements into the conversation and by doing so create room for people to explore and change.
firewithfire.blog/2020/05/10/organizing-is-not-about-getting-people-to-agree-with-radical-ideas/
firewithfire.blog/2020/05/10/organizing-is-not-about-getting-people-to-agree-with-radical-ideas/
Fire with Fire
Organizing Is Not about Getting People to Agree with Radical Ideas
[This post is part of a series on 1-on-1 organizing conversations.] Intro There is one misconception in organizing, especially workplace organizing, that is responsible for more confusion and dead …
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Rebel Steps: itsgoingdown.org/rebel-steps-rent-strike-next-steps/
David Harvey: www.democracyatwork.info/acc_evolutionary_concept_totality
Rebel Steps: itsgoingdown.org/rebel-steps-rent-strike-next-steps/
David Harvey: www.democracyatwork.info/acc_evolutionary_concept_totality
It's Going Down
Rebel Steps: Rent Strike Next Steps - It's Going Down
573 total views, 343 views today Rebel Steps podcast returns with an update on the growing rent strike in the New York area. This is our second episode on the rent strikes. Find our first episode here. There are lots of organizing resources in those show…
Food Not Bombs: What to Know About the Free Meal Collective
anarchistnews.org/content/food-not-bombs-what-know-about-free-meal-collective
anarchistnews.org/content/food-not-bombs-what-know-about-free-meal-collective
We need all the comrades and allies we’ve got, and our disagreements and differences — if we’re not engaging in scorched-earth campaigns against one another — could actually strengthen us.
[...] Our battles today are urgent, no doubt, but we should have a sense of humility and proportion about our own experience and influence
[...] we have to be able to debate one another without just trying to win a line or points. We have to actually engage with competing political positions.
https://jacobinmag.com/2020/05/left-arguments-comrades-democratic-socialism-bernie-sanders/
[...] Our battles today are urgent, no doubt, but we should have a sense of humility and proportion about our own experience and influence
[...] we have to be able to debate one another without just trying to win a line or points. We have to actually engage with competing political positions.
https://jacobinmag.com/2020/05/left-arguments-comrades-democratic-socialism-bernie-sanders/
Jacobinmag
How to Argue With Your Comrades
When faced with political setbacks like Bernie Sanders’s loss, it’s easy for socialists to blame our own comrades for our defeats. But those losses are more rooted in the powerful structures we’re up against than our own failures — and while vibrant debate…
The radical right does not simply reject science; it invents its own “scientific” rhetoric to provide an “alternative” interpretation
www.opendemocracy.net/en/countering-radical-right/radical-right-spreading-coronavirus/
www.opendemocracy.net/en/countering-radical-right/radical-right-spreading-coronavirus/
openDemocracy
Is the radical right spreading the coronavirus?
The radical right has always been good at spreading misinformation; now they might be spreading Covid-19.
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Happy Birthday to Malcolm X, born on this day in 1925. While known for his devotion to Islam and his activism towards Black Liberation, Malcolm also began to fight for the liberation of all workers, black and white, shortly before he was assassinated.
(Image courtesy of Washington University Libraries, Henry Hampton Collection.)
(Image courtesy of Washington University Libraries, Henry Hampton Collection.)