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Aug 28

2013

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Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism

Afghanistan AFL-CIO Anna Hedgeman Black Panthers Black Workers Congress Combahee River Collective Congress on Racial Equality Democratic Party Dorothy Height Dorothy L. Robinson League of Revolutionary Black Workers March on Washington materialism Militarism NAACP National Action Network National Welfare Rights Organization Negro American Labor Council (NALC) Pakistan Pauli Murray Poor People’s Campaign Racism Somalia Southern Christian Leadership Conference Syria United Auto Workers Urban League Yemen Young Lords

Big, Glitzy Marches Are Not Movements

" The moral and political arc of movements for social justice is also very, very long. And this is why it is important to think beyond the march, “the speech,” the spectacle. To understand August 28, 1963 is to understand the entire era. It requires following those movements that fall outside the spotlight, the movements organized and led by the very women who were excluded from the mic on that incredibly hot and humid Washington afternoon. The work of social movements is not always sexy, nor is it necessarily inspiring. But they are the engines for change and the incubators of new dreams."

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Apr 10

2013

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Foundations, NED | National Endowment for Democracy, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, The Soros Network | OSI

AFL-CIO Albert Einstein Institution Capitalism Carnegie Foundation CIA Council on Foreign Relations DiscoverTheNetworks Ford Foundation Freedom House International Center for Journalists International Center for Nonviolent Conflict International Crisis Group NAACP National Democratic Institute National Endowment for Democracy (NED) National Negro Business League neoliberalism Rockefeller Brothers Fund Urban League US Institute of Peace

Capital-driven Civil Society

"Overemphasis in Leftist literature on aggressive aspects of imperialism (waged through both overt and covert military, economic, and diplomatic domination) has unfortunately meant that little attention has been paid to the equally important ‘friendly face’ of imperialism. Thus, when combined with the near total media blackout of critical analyses of elite funding of progressive groups, it is little wonder that there is minimal discussion of this phenomenon."

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Jan 16

2013

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Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism

Disobedience Idle No More NAACP Resistance SCLC SNCC Urban League

Editorial: A People’s Movement | Idle No More

"In James Forman's 1997 book The Making of Black Revolutionaries, the former organizer of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) -- that led the sit-ins against American apartheid, and risked their lives in support of Black communities in Mississippi Freedom Summer -- recalled the challenges of working with the established Black elites of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) who wanted to control the activists.'

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