> All roads lead to Rome -- and most social ills in the
> US lead back to the need for radical labor
> organization. Not all, but a lot.
>
> Is that getting a "tired" thing to say? "Heard it
> before!"? Well, what the fuck else is there -- really?
> It's the cul-de-sac of so many of the problems
> discussed here. Not all of them, but a big chunk.
Amen to that. Last week I returned from an NLG meeting in New Orleans. I was deeply impressed by the cool shit people are doing down in N.O. (e.g. organizing day laborers, and everything the Common Ground Collective is doing http://www.commongroundrelief.org/ ). Frankly, it made me embarrassed to have been hiding behind my professional activities at a non-profit; using my shit salary and the occasional march/rally attendance and legal observing gig to justify my failure to do any direct organizing for the last few years. Fuck the NGO-ization of resistance. Really stirring shit up is hard, dangerous, and largely unpaid.
-WD
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