[lbo-talk] Re: Undecided Until the Last Minute Re: Dean's Self-Demolition

Chuck0 chuck at mutualaid.org
Sat Jan 24 19:03:16 PST 2004


Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:


> You need fellow organizers and activists before you go out to talk with
> others who do not know you, _unless_ you are imagining that you can talk
> to all the people you want in a movement _by yourself_, which is
> impossible. Organizing is not an individual effort but a collective
> one. Take union organizing, for example. First, you get together with
> a few like-minded fellow workers who you already know are inclined to
> unionizing, and together you try to expand from there to form an
> organizing committee. Only after doing so can you move onto calling
> bigger meetings and making systematic home visits (usually as a
> two-person team) to reach out to other fellow workers and seeking
> community support from likely supportive institutions such as other
> unions, liberal churches, community organizations, student groups,
> environmental groups, etc. Reaching out to the rest of the public comes
> only after your organizing committee successfully completed all of the
> above steps.

Ahhh, so that explains why the labor movement has been so ineffective.

Thanks, Yoshie, for the concise analysis of how not to do stuff.

Chuck0



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