The Movement and Elections
by VanessaVaile
ICYMI ~ most recent post and last in “Electoral Strategy” series, http://befreedom.co/category/electoral-strategy-for-2016/
More about/by Rich Moser,
Scholar, Activist, Organizer: Interview with Richard Moser http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/radical_history_review/summary/v090/90.1reilly02.html
Building Campus Coalitions (AAUP), http://www.aaup.org/building-campus-coalitions
There’s more — but for another post.
This is the last of seven posts on Electoral Strategy.
The Movement and Elections
It’s what we do that matters.
The rank and file of the social and labor movements hold the most important position and bear the heaviest burden of all. Participatory democracy is the key to reconstructing representative democracy. The labor and social movements have the power to change America.
I am not suggesting that activists shift their work to electoral politics unless they want to. It may well be that the best thing people can do is to build their movement and community. Make their organizations and neighborhoods more sustainable, more effective, more democratic and more disruptive to the normal course of corporate power.
We are in desperate need of grassroots rebellion and empowerment on many fronts and for many reasons. And, the social moments remain the best source of people with the capacity to undertake…
View original post 1,603 more words
As the Adjunctiverse Turns 