The Southern Workers Assembly has been building the Southern Workers School as an important institution to train and develop rank-and-file workers to organize the South. The school has held eight sessions since March tackling issues and basic organizing skills such as learning how to map your workplace and tips for one-on-one discussions with co-workers.
Demographic shifts mean that, for the first time in half a century, Democrats have a real chance at winning states in the South and Southwest.
No political revolution in the United States can succeed without the South.
No one expects a laptop to last for 10 years. How can we expect these machines, many of which were designed and engineered in the 1990s, to keep running without increased failures?
There has long existed a passionate and driven community of Southern progressives who have pushed not only the region but the entire country toward the realization of racial justice and true economic opportunity. When the nation lent its ear and sword to these individuals and organizations, they fundamentally altered history.
Instead of progressives sounding the bugle of retreat, exactly the opposite is necessary. The elements of the progressive movement that already exist in the South must be supported.
Southern Democrats, meet your future: No more Republican Lite.
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The South Carolina Progressive Network's Truthful Tuesdays join North Carolina's Moral Mondays. Folks from NAACP to longshoremen to postal workers to firefighters to churches to Black legislators say Enough is Enough.
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