New strategies for building working class power in the age of neoliberalism: The Vermont Workers’ Center and the Healthcare Is a Human Right Campaign
Submitted by kissam_j on Sun, 2011-01-02 16:49
Panel Abstract:
Neoliberalism has created a crisis for working-class organizing. With the electoral system dominated by two corporate-funded parties and workplace organizing nearly impossible, most working people are inactive or drawn to right-wing movements like the Tea Party. Hear from grassroots organizations who are successfully fighting this trend in Vermont, Philadelphia and Baltimore, combining the human rights framework, aggressive mass organizing, leadership development and a clear vision of economic and social justice. Our campaigns for universal healthcare, media justice and workers’ rights have not only been successful in winning victories, but have also built broad alliances and energized other progressive social movements. Organizing poor and working people around a politics of solidarity which encompasses anti-racism, anti-sexism, immigrants' rights and the full spectrum of economic and social rights, we hope to contribute to new strategies for building working-class power.
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- Housing
- Political and Social Movements
- L. Panel Session 5—Sunday 10:00 a.m. – 11:50 a.m.
- Jonathan Kissam—Vermont Worker's Center
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- Anja Rudiger—National Economic and Social Rights Initiative
- Ashley Hufnagel—United Workers
- Desi Burnette—Media Mobilizing Project
- Jonathan Kissam—Vermont Worker's Center
- Kate Kanelstein—Vermont Worker's Center
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Panel Abstract:
Neoliberalism has created a crisis for working-class organizing. With the electoral system dominated by two corporate-funded parties and workplace organizing nearly impossible, most working people are inactive or drawn to right-wing movements like the Tea Party. Hear from grassroots organizations who are successfully fighting this trend in Vermont, Philadelphia and Baltimore, combining the human rights framework, aggressive mass organizing, leadership development and a clear vision of economic and social justice. Our campaigns for universal healthcare, media justice and workers’ rights have not only been successful in winning victories, but have also built broad alliances and energized other progressive social movements. Organizing poor and working people around a politics of solidarity which encompasses anti-racism, anti-sexism, immigrants' rights and the full spectrum of economic and social rights, we hope to contribute to new strategies for building working-class power.
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