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The Fight for Abortion Rights Was Won in the Streets

Nancy Rosenstock Jacobin
Half a century ago, feminists won Roe v. Wade with mass demonstrations and a sweeping national vision. A veteran of that movement argues that today’s fight requires the same strategy.

Tidbits-Apr 2-Reader Comments: More War, Cuts to Social Safety Net; on the “Left” Criticism of No Kings 3; More States Taxing Ultra-Rich; Happy Farm-Workers Day; Community As Strategy: 10 Ways To Create Belonging, Power; Teaching Antifascist History

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Reader Comments: More War, More Cuts to Social Safety Net; On the "Left" Criticism of No Kings 3; More States Taxing the Ultra-Rich; Happy Farm-Workers Day; Community as Strategy: 10 Ways to create belonging and power; Teaching Antifascist History...

How Effective Are Protests? Historians Say: Very.

Robin Buller The Guardian
Protests change the protesters, their communities and the nation. From emancipation to women’s suffrage, civil rights and BLM, mass movements have shaped the arc of US history.

A Prophet for the Poor

Matthew Desmond The New York Review of Books
In order to build a mass movement for economic justice, Reverend William Barber argues, we need to let go of the idea that poverty is an exclusively Black or urban issue.

Words and History: The Trouble With “Genocide Joe”

Fred Glass The Stansbury Forum
Ascribing personal responsibility to Biden for the carnage in Gaza takes our eyes off the prize, which is the structure of imperialist oppression, on the one hand, and building the broadest possible movement to fight it, on the other.

Socialists, Now You’re Elected: How Will We Work Together?

Stephanie Luce interviews Sumathy Kumar Organizing Upgrade
How can electeds use their positions to bring marginalized communities into decision-making; to support our allies after the election? Sumathy Kumar, one of two co-chairs of the New York City DSA, talks with Stephanie Luce about what DSA has learned

White People’s Stake in Ending the White Republic

Erin Heaney Organizing Upgrade
Organizing poor and working white people – who are not currently a part of our movement but who have everything to gain by joining multiracial formations, especially in the South – provides a major opportunity to break the power of a white republic.

Building Communities of Solidarity

Fernando E. Gapasin, Bill Fletcher Jr. and Bill Gallegos Monthly Review
Veteran labor organizer Fernando Gapasin is interviewed by Bill Fletcher, Jr. and Bill Gallegos. "I dedicated myself to ending racism and building worker power by building democratic working-class organizations from the bottom up."
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