Notes

These damn XR ppl wasted a political platform. California wild fires. Child walk outs.
“The strategy of XR, with the primary tactic of being arrested, is a valid one – but it needs to be underlined by an ongoing analysis of privilege as well as the reality of police and state violence. XR participants should be able to use their privilege to risk arrest, whilst at the same time highlighting the racialised nature of policing. Though some of this analysis has started to happen, until it becomes central to XR’s organising it is not sufficient”

We need to review our conceptions of tactics and ‘resistance’ and ‘struggle’. Community Service Organization Obama, Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez. Yes We Can.

overwhelmingly low-income, labor does not register significantly in any era or region. This reflects occupational segregation and the distinct ways each group experiences poverty. We can identify episodes of multiracial labor activism at least as far back as the 1930s in California, as seen in the multiracial Corcoran cotton strike, as well as labor struggles in the Imperial Valley (Kurashige, 2008; Weber, 1994). In the 1960s, the BRT was seen in the United Farm Workers (UFW). Lauren Araiza (2014) has shown how diverse Black organizations, including the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Black Panther Party assisted the UFW. Currently, the multiracial Culinary Workers Union Local 226 in Las Vegas has been weaving together labor rights, civil rights and immigrant rights (Ortiz, 2013). In 1980s, Los Angeles the Campaign to Keep GM Van Nuys Open forged a multiracial consciousness that drew heavily on both the BRT and Chicana/o activism (Mann, 1987). In the contemporary period, when organized labor in Los Angeles has become overwhelmingly Latinx, the leadership has sought to incorporate African Americans through targeted campaigns, such as Service Employees International Union’s, Stand for Security organizing drive, aimed at Black security guards. Here, a Latinx led movement created space for African Americans out of a concern with Black poverty as well as the desire to create a stronger movement (Bonacich et al., 2010). Likewise, the mostly Latinx immigrant UNITE-HERE Local 11 union led a campaign to create the Hospitality Training Academy to increase the number of Black workers in higher-paid front-of-the-house hotel occupations

We need to review how we envision ‘creative imaginaries’. We need more concrete sense. Mexican legal fund ford foundation. Counter intuitive.

For instance, Eyerman and Jamison (1991: 55) define a social movement as a “cognitive territory, a new conceptual space that is filled by a dynamic interaction between different groups and organizations.”

We need to stop having presupposing that we are already democratic. Representation is a very tricky process.


But with the propaganda to deliver heavy weapons to Ukraine and to agree on energy trade with Qatar, the Greens fundamentally contradicted their own statement. It should be emphasized here that Green Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and Green Vice-Chancellor Robert Habeck are the main initiators of these decisions. New Era, 100 billion into army, nordstream 2 cancellation.
Stop The War Coalition. Peoples Assembly. JSO

IG Metal war industry Martial Mining. GMB Weapons manufacturers.
Teamsters United Farm Workers.

Concerted Action. SPD Karl Schiller 1967 recession - 1969 wildcat strikes

Teamsters vs UFW. Delano Grape Strike ends with some victories 25 growers. 4 year struggle. Teamsters strike for 5 days and the price of lettuce triples overnight. They get a contract. UFW are furious and a war starts: 5 year war, killings bombings etc. 1971 UFW get a right to organise.

Railway strikes