After years of building a fighting organization of welfare recipients, domestic workers, shoe shiners, child care workers, security guards, unemployed workers and other no- and low-wage workers, the organizers and leaders of People Organized to Win Employment Rights (POWER) realized that we couldn’t answer some basic questions: What is the nature of the world’s political economy? How are our campaigns for racial, economic and gender justice impacted by neo-liberalism and imperialism? What will it take to build a movement in such despondent and challenging times? In 2004, the members of POWER’s Committee for Working Class Leadership and Strategy decided to answer these questions. We wanted to make sure that we had the skills necessary to develop strategy for our own organization and to help to develop strategy for the movement. This book is the result. Towards Land, Work & Power is a book by conscious organizers for conscious organizers. Rooted in our experiences building a membership organization in San Francisco’s working class communities, Towards Land, Work & Powerrepresents four organizers’ attempt to assess the racist, sexist, homophobic and inherently exploitative system of imperialism. Ending with an alternative vision for San Francisco and the world, the book attempts to equip us with what we will need to move towards land, work and power for all. “You hold in your hands one of the most important critical analyses of neoliberalism, U.S. empire, and the impact they are having on the urban working poor and people of color. But this compact and readable book packs much more than a brilliant critique of the current economic and political crises. Instead, Towards Land, Work & Power offers a strategy-a sophisticated anti-imperialist strategy that pays attention to race, gender, culture, community, immigration, and international solidarity. Veterans of many years of community and labor organizing in the San Francisco area, the folks at POWER understand “power,” and what it means to fight back in the belly of the beast. This book ought to be mandatory reading for anyone committed to a politics of transformation.” [Robin D. G. Kelley]
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“You hold in your hands one of the most important critical analyses of neoliberalism, U.S. empire, and the impact they are having on the urban working poor and people of color. But this compact and readable book packs much more than a brilliant critique of the current economic and political crises. Instead, Towards Land, Work & Power offers a strategy-a sophisticated anti-imperialist strategy that pays attention to race, gender, culture, community, immigration, and international solidarity. Veterans of many years of community and labor organizing in the San Francisco area, the folks at POWER understand “power,” and what it means to fight back in the belly of the beast. This book ought to be mandatory reading for anyone committed to a politics of transformation.” [Robin D. G. Kelley]
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This is a MUST-READ if you were born in, currently reside in, have ever visited, or have thought about visiting the Bay Area!,
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Towards Land, Work & Power: Charting a Path of Resistance to U.S-Led Imperialism marks an important snapshot of the city I grew up in, and its history. Many thank-yous to these on-the-ground organizers who took the time to ask these particular questions about San Francisco's political economy, pushing all of us to be up on our game and stay there! I am grateful for this book and for the conversations it has started/reinvigorated since its publishing. If you haven't read it yet... I'd strongly encourage you to order a copy right away!
Side Note: The tone of the book is super-accessible, clearly written for regular folks!
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- Capitalism in the Age of Globalization: The Management of Contemporary Society by Samir Amin on 4 pages
- The Origin of the Family: Private Property and the State by Friedrich Engels on page 19, and page 20
- The Antonio Gramsci Reader: Selected Writings 1916-1935 by Antonio Gramsci on page 107
- Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination by Robin D.G. Kelley in Front Matter
- Lenin Collected Works V 2 by Vladimir Ilyi Lenin on page 31
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