assistant professor of labor studies RU; @organizeworkers, @ruaaup; my Substack is https://xitter.cf/t.co/SxdggCnjtR
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No matter how good our politics are, the US Left won't be able to fully seize this moment until we make our organizations more welcoming, and more oriented to helping newbies become leaders
NYC friends, please come to this rally tomorrow (Thursday 10/22) at noon at Hospital D&S Buildings to support nurse practitioner Dowd, who is facing vicious retaliation from management for her workplace activism
Actually, megachurches have a far deeper base in the broader working-class than the Left, which is one reason why we should try to learn from how they organize
82% of megachurch attendees join by personal invite, vs 21% of DSA members, who mostly self-select online
We have a lot to learn on how to develop members into organizers
Instead of relying on online self-selecting recruitment, the Left should learn from evangelicals how to develop attendees into organizers
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Got this message from @JacobM_AL about my article, would love to hear from other folks on the left about your experiences in organized religion growing up or today, and what you think we should (and shouldn't) import
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Join me, @DanielDenvir and many lovely comrades next Thursday 10/22 in Queens to support one of America's most exciting developments: the socialist sweep of Providence, RI
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It's obviously true that the organizing terrain is harder for leftists than evangelical churches, but it doesn't follow that we can't learn important lessons from the latter
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"This book couldn’t be more timely.” –Sara Nelson (@FlyingWithSara)
"Masterful" -@GraceBlakeley
American Socialist: The Life and Legacy of Eugene V. Debs is out today!!
The Left would be stronger if we learned from evangelical organizing
Here are 14 lessons for us from Rick Warren’s classic “The Purpose Driven Church” on belonging before belief, joy before jargon, and the lost art of bringing people in
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Good statement from @nycDSA on Jessica Tisch and the NYPD's response to ICE's terrorizing of our neighbors
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This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds. We believe the child was physically unharmed.
This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.
Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery.
Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.
Abolish ICE.
I translated Antonio Martins’ important assessment of Brazil’s electoral disaster, please read/share!
“An electoral turnaround is possible, however difficult. But the illusion that the left can govern without a long-term project, without confronting the powerful, and without popular mobilization must be left behind”
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It's true: @organizeworkers is a key source of hope and inspiration for reviving the labor movement—please become an EWOC sustaining donor, your support goes a very long way!
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Very exciting that DSA has over 120K members, but we have so much further to go: if Belgium's population was same size as the US, its main socialist organization, the @ptbbelgique, would have 722,000 members
