Open Left

No people in the streets

Because there exists no organization (or set of local organizations) to mobilize them.  And no clear target to mobilize against.  And no clear "we" to come together to speak to power.

Of course it could "happen."  Sometimes things do "happen."

Or existing organizations could be used for new purposes.  

As Paul has pointed out, the "depression" is not new news for many of the most oppressed people in our country.  18% unemployment for many of them would be a luxury.  This silence in the face of employment genocide has been going on for a long time.


--Aaron Schutz (Core Dilemmas of Community Organizing)

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by: educationaction @ Sun Jul 05, 2009 at 21:01:22 PM CDT