December 28, 2020 Pearl River The Black Lives Matter movement erupted after the killing of George Floyd, as demonstrations, perhaps as many as 8500, occurred throughout the country and the world. BLM, prior to the Minneapolis uprising, was a loosely-knit, unstructured, network of local chapters with a somewhat leaderless structure nationally. In many ways that …
The New Media “Left”
December 27, 2020 Pearl River Maybe I’m wrong, but over the Trump years, as the media has groped around trying to figure out a way to characterize him and his supporters, the old poles of liberal, moderate, and conservative seemed to have disappeared in the polarity of right and left. My hunch is that among …
The Continued Call to Organize the South
December 26, 2020 Pearl River Ben Speight is a seasoned labor organizer based in Atlanta. I’ve known him for a while, initially as an organizer with the Teamsters locals there. More recently he ran a team for AFGE that focused on getting hundreds of thousands of their members ready for terrible contract negotiations with the …