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deutsey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 02:45 PM
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I don't want to mourn, dammit. I want to organize
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Edited on Wed Nov-03-10 02:47 PM by deutsey
I'm talking about finding ways to update, modernize old-style progressive organizing (for an example, read labor history of the late 19th/early 20th century, if you can find it) to fight for our interests right here, right now.

Rightwing corporate power was the big winner yesterday and it's going to continue crushing us if we remain fragmented, demoralized, dependent on weak-kneed Democrats (there are strong Dems, certainly, but not as many as we had the day before yesterday), and relying exclusively on an electoral/political system that's broken, corrupted, bought and paid for by corporatist interests.

We need to come together, right fucking now, and start fighting back the way our progressive forebears did.

If we don't, everything they fought for, struggled for, and died for will be lost for who knows how long?

I'm not willing to let that happen without giving these motherfuckers a real fight.

The class war is over? The hell it is.

After yesterday, I say I have not yet begun to fight.

Post your suggestions here for how we can start.

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