Contributions from Stephanie Luce
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Labor’s Strategy Must Lean Into Synergies
The ferocity and scale of onrushing authoritarianism demand that we think beyond binaries. We can’t counterpose electoral and strike action: we need to do both and understand the synergies. And we know that we can’t decisively defeat MAGA without effectively challenging the neoliberal model.
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Plan 2028: Bringing Labor and Social Movements Together
UAW called for unions to synchronize contract expirations on May 1, 2028. How can we harness this compression point to coordinate our movements?
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SF State Students ‘Won’t Stop Until Palestine Is Free’
Organizers of the successful Students For Gaza encampment at San Francisco State University set their protest in the long arc of the Palestine struggle for freedom. It built on decades of prior work and “it doesn't stop here. We are a part of something bigger than ourselves, and we need to continue to keep each other strong and united.”
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Student Occupation Backed Workers’ Demand For a Living Wage
Occupying the president’s office and camping out on the quad, Harvard students threw a spotlight on income inequality–and the university’s corporate nature.
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Student Movements Helped Fuel Divestment from Apartheid South Africa
“Just know that it's a long-term struggle…The anti-apartheid movement started in the 1930s…In 1977, whenever I would do an educational session, nobody knew what I was talking about. Seven years later, everybody was talking about South Africa. So the constant political education is important.”
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Frances Fox Piven Remembers Columbia, 1968
“You can only take collective action where the collectivity is. And where are students collected together except on campus? The kind of protests they're doing—building occupations, gatherings on campus, critiquing the university administration—follow logically from their situation.”
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In the 1960s and the 2020s, Antiwar Movements Change the Landscape
Global sympathy lay with the people of Vietnam in the 1960s-’70s, as it does with the Palestinian people today. But difficult as the road to forcing the US out of Vietnam was, the path to winning Palestinian self-determination and equal rights for all in Israel-Palestine appears even more challenging.
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Project 2025: A Warning for Labor
“Project 2025 comes for everybody, It comes for LGBTQIA+ folks. It comes for folks of color and people of good will of all stripes. But it particularly comes for labor. Unions and workers and all of us who care about worker justice need to take this very seriously.”
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How Today’s Underdogs Can Win Big With Strategy
“Practical radicals are not content to be on the right side without a plan to make their vision a reality. And they are not satisfied with working on small issues without an analysis of what’s wrong with society and a vision of how it could be better.”
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File Under ‘S’ for Solidarity: Union Members Defend Local Library
When the MAGA right planned to protest a drag event at a local library, North Shore Labor Council members showed up to fight back.
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A Good Day in Our Movement: Organizers Debate in ‘Labor Power and Strategy’
Strategic locations, key occupations, networked relations—all bring workers power. “Labor Power and Strategy” offers an extended conversation among veteran organizers on how these modes operate and relate, and how best to deploy them.
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‘We Build Democracy Through Grassroots Organizing’
"To build a multi-racial democracy that actually includes all of us, we will need anchored community-based power-building organizations along with mass movements."