Category: Power Building
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How teachers are resisting the Kremlin’s war propaganda in Russian schools
Written by Vera Akhalaya for OpenDemocracy, published on April 25th, 2023 under CC-BY-NC 4.0 Nationalistic propaganda in Russia has intensified noticeably since the invasion of Ukraine last year, and the country’s 17.7 million schoolchildren have not been spared. That said, it’s impossible for the Kremlin to control every teacher – and some are risking prison…
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Louisville’s Tenant Union is Part of a Growing Movement
Written by Fran Quigley for Waging Non-Violence, published on March 10th, 2023 under CC-BY 4.0 Despite the South’s challenging political geography, Black and white tenants are transforming Louisville and setting the pace for the wider movement. Private police officers guide a line of late-model SUVs through the January morning’s cold rain into a lane of…
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No Union? You Still Have a Right to Strike
Written by Richard de Vries, originally published by LaborNotes on December 08, 2022. Shared per LaborNotes republishing policy. Last year there were 87 strikes by non-union workers, according to Cornell’s Labor Action Tracker, accounting for one-third of all work stoppages in the U.S. Even without a union, you have the legal right to organize strikes, job…
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EndSARS, Workers’ Power, and War
Written by Kunle Wizeman Ajayi, originally published in October of 2021 on africaisacountry.com The working class that organized #OccupyNigeria should collaborate with #EndSARS. If these two boiling points burn together to produce the fire next time, a new Nigeria will be possible. The present shape of Nigeria’s ruling-class oppression goes back to the mid-1980s, with…
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New Book Labor Power and Strategy Helps Organizers Think Seriously About Chokepoints
By Peter Olney and Rand Wilson for LaborNotes, published Feb. 15th 2023 John Womack is well-known in the United States as one of the foremost historians of the Mexican revolution, as the author of the seminal Zapata and the Mexican Revolution. However, his writings on strategic sectors and strategic workers have not received the same attention.…
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Overt racism has made it difficult for right-wing evangelicals to retain non-white followers
Christians are splitting with the religious right over Trump, COVID and Black Lives Matter, creating opportunities for those interested in social justice. By Paul Engler for Waging Non Violence, published July 19, 2022, CC-BY 4.0 A potentially historic political shift is currently taking place within an unexpected group of Americans: evangelical Christians. In the wake of…