Episode 99: Leftwing Strategy Tour Part 2: A 5 Year Organizing Plan
We start December off with the next Part in our deep dive into forming a vision for the next decade of organizing. We review the barriers to unionization, and visit how independent electoral successes are made. In the 2nd Half we cover the Organizing of the intersectionality of the Chicago Communists, and The Panthers mutual aid work went beyond charity with class consciousness.
Music Used: Seize the Day from Newsies: Disney
Video essay on Anti-war movies and how certain narratives of heroism hold us back;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yf0G2MPBEYM&ab_channel=LikeStoriesofOld
Barriers to unionization
https://inthesetimes.com/article/union-density-workers-organizing-staff-experts-public-enthusiasm
Immigrantion colilition key to dem vote turnout
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/11/12/arizona-may-go-biden-that-took-20-years-grassroots-organizing/
Greens Gain in thanks to deep Canvasing
jacobinmag.com/2020/11/australian-greens-queensland-organizing
Chicago Communist Party Positive Lessons
https://rampantmag.com/2020/07/28/learning-from-multiracial-radical-organizing-in-1930s-chicago/
A look at the Black Panthers breakfast program
https://kairoscenter.org/beyond-mutual-aid