From Street Demos to Solidarity Work

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https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/CN04052020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsPearl River     What do mass-based organizations and social movements do when their tactics of mass action, disruption, and street protests are impossible due to stay-at-home orders and social distancing?  Do collective actions simply devolve into solitary moans on social media?  No, never!  Mass-based organizations assemble the base …

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Cranes Soaring to Escape London

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https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/CN01292020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans  One thing that intrigued me in both England and Ireland over the last two weeks was the amount of construction in every city I visited.   These were not little small-time projects, but giant cranes building skyscrapers in most of the cities. Manchester was out of …

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