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Why Fighting Racism Is Not the Same as Building a Multiracial Movement (opens the original)
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When I sat down recently with longtime organizer Eric Mann, I expected us to talk about movement strategy. We did. But before we got very far, Mann raised something more basic: friendship.“What’s the point of trying to change the whole country if we don’t like each other?” he asked.It was vintage Eric—part political theory, part personal reflection, and a reminder that movements are ultimately made of human beings.Mann has been organizing for more than six decades. His politi
Recalling the Torments of a Radical Truthteller - James Baldwin (opens the original)
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In this conversation, Peter Laarman tells Dick and Sharon how he resisted reading the sprawling new biography of James Baldwin—Nicholas Bogg’s James Baldwin: A Love Story—out of deep respect for this great writer. The reviews were all telling Peter that Boggs digs into the details of his subject’s sex life. This turned me off, says Peter, even though I am a gay man who has not been averse to slurping up the salaciousness in profiles of other gay icons. Peter went on to tell us the he
Angelmarie Taylor Is Fighting Back Against Campus Repression (opens the original)
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lder activists talk a lot about “passing the torch” to the next generation.After spending time with AngelMarie Taylor, I’m beginning to think we may have the metaphor wrong.Young people like Taylor aren’t standing around waiting for somebody to hand them a torch. They have already picked it up. The more urgent question is whether those of us who have been doing this work for decades are prepared to support them, listen to them and help clear obstacles out of their way.Taylor is a Youth V
How Federal Budget Cuts Fuel Local Austerity—and Divide Working Americans (opens the original)
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Mario is a longtime LA Progressive contributor, political strategist, broadcaster, policy commentator, and now Substack writer. He is also very funny—although he insists he is not a comedian.“I hear that a lot,” he told me when we recently sat down to talk. “Sometimes the only way to deliver honesty is with a little bit of humor.”The humor helps, because what we ended up discussing was anything but funny.We began with California unemployment. From there we moved to federal b
Liberal vs. Progressive on Race (opens the original)
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Every February, the same poster goes up in the break room. Martin Luther King Jr., mid-speech, arm raised, quote stripped of context and shrunk to fit a frame. Every May 5th, someone brings tacos to the office potluck. Every June, a rainbow logo. Every November, a land acknowledgement read aloud before the meeting starts, then never mentioned again.None of that is nothing. But none of it is the thing itself.That gap — between the gesture and the structure underneath it — is where “liberal” and “
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