Presentation

• How the new deal was won

  Stock market crashed in 1929

  Memories from high school = it was all FDR

  In actuality

  There was great wealth inequality

  Similar to now with Covid giving most money to the top

  The communist party was a big part

  Bold broad actions over years

  which prompted first new deal (wealth)

  Strike epidemic

  Wagner ac

  New Deal didn't fix everything

  People were Killed in hunger strikes

  It took might working class mobilization

• Covid Depression

  • Don't know about the future but it doesn't matter
  • We need to work alot more closely with labor

• LIminal Space

  • Space between possibilities → infinite possibilities
  • What is missing is a platform and vision for mass participation
  • Mutual aid → paul angler points out the mutual aid work → creates new connections
  • This needs a common story, strategy, and structure → GND or people's bailout?

QUESTIONS?

• Talk the talk
  • Cass sunstein
  • 1 Preference Faslication (people don't tell)
    • Me too, Saudi arabia people working
  • 2 Diverse Thresholds (people are activated differently)
    • Activation chains
  • 3 Interdependencies
    • These actors need to see and hear each other
    • Sacrifice, social media, personal stories etc
  • Organize people not organizers
  • don't lie
    • You don't want people to repeat failed tactics

1. Abolition + Great Depression Organizing (Sacrifice)

   Lessons of Abolitionism for the Green New Deal

   The unemployed workers' movement of the 1930s

   FDR didn't just create the New Deal out of nowhere. It came after significant pressure from the grassroots.

2. Crisis Organizing = Disruption + common narrative (Depression, 2008, Arab Spring, Coronavirus?)

   Coronavirus Is a Historic Trigger Event-and It Needs a Movement to Respond

   

3. Build Power and target leverage points... don't just amass 3.5%

   The flawed science behind Extinction Rebellion's change strategy

4. TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK

   How Change Happens - Sunstein

   We don't say how we really feel, and how this makes social change frequent, abrupt & unpredictable

   Listen to at least the first ~30 minutes of this podcast (Prof. Cass Sunstein's Speech)

   Media falsification GND acceptance

   What's my conclusion?