Archive for the ‘social movement history’ Tag

May 31, 2013 Women Resist Behind Bars posted in essays, Victoria Law (contributor) tagged prison resistance, social movement history
May 17, 2013 The Black Panthers’ Medical Activism posted in Against the Current (magazine), audio tagged social movement history
April 26, 2013 Beginnings of the Social Work Unions posted in essays, Richard William Hunter (author), Voices of Our Past (book) tagged social movement history, social work unions
April 19, 2013 Being a Radical Social Worker in Reactionary Times posted in Michael Reisch (contributor), SWAA (website/organization) tagged anti-austerity, anti-oppressive practice, social movement history
March 22, 2013 What is Austerity? posted in essays, Original material, the Rank and Filer (contributor) tagged anti-austerity, social movement history, social work unions, welfare, welfare reform
March 1, 2013 The Discussion Clubs of the Rank-and-File Movement posted in essays, Richard William Hunter (author), Voices of Our Past (book) tagged social movement history, social work unions
February 15, 2013 Renewing Labor Struggle in NYC Social Services posted in essays, Original material, the Rank and Filer (contributor) tagged anti-austerity, organization and strategy, social movement history, social work unions, welfare, working conditions
February 8, 2013 San Francisco Welfare Department Struggles in the 1960s and 1970s posted in Barri Boone (contributor), essays tagged organization and strategy, social movement history, social work unions
January 25, 2013 AIDS and Gentrification posted in Against the Current (magazine), audio tagged AIDS organizing, social movement history
January 25, 2013 Welfare Rights and Feminism posted in Original material, speeches, the Rank and Filer (contributor) tagged social movement history, welfare reform

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Old Posts of Original Material by Contributors

Budget Cuts and Corporate Welfare in a Recession, (Part 1), Nate Franco, February 2013
Can Unions Help with Problems Faced by Agency Therapists?, Frank Kashner, December 21, 2012
Fired for Organizing, Paul Fudder, 2010
Building a Militant Labor Movement of Social Service Workers, Labor Working Group of the Radical Social Work Group, December 2012
On My Suicide Note, Joe Morris, October 2012
Book Review of Paul Robinson's The Freudian Left, Ray Luxemburg, September 17, 2012
Critiquing the AIDS Bureaucracy: An Open Letter to the Canadian AIDS Society, Nora Butler Burke, Zack Marshall and Viviane Namaste, October 2012
Reflections from a Non-Profit Union Shop Steward, Emma Schulman, July 2012
Billable Hours, Medical Models and the Waste of School Social Workers, Lucianna, August 31, 2012
Shaping Our Lives, Peter Beresford, August 2012
Investing in Community Democracy: Laursen's Response, Eric Laursen, August 10, 2013
What They Gain, What We Lose, Michelle O'Brien, July 27 2013
Poet 911, July 6, 2012
A Call to Organize, Paul Fudder, June 22, 2012
Mobilize and Prepare the Profession for Undoing Structural Racism, Members of the Anti-Racist Alliance, June 29 2012
Open Letter to Radical Social Workers, Paul Fudder, May 25, 2012

Reposted Analysis and Essays

Union Jobs - A Way Out of Poverty for Blacks and Latinos, David R. Jones, December 20th, 2012
An Immodest Proposal, Rewarding Women's Work to End Poverty, the Women's Committee of 100/Project 2002, March 23, 2000 from SWAA
The Illusion of Social Work Professionalism, Hilary Searing, 2006
At HHS, Nowhere to Go But Up, Eric Laursen, January 21, 2013 from The Indypendent
San Francisco Welfare Department Struggles in the 1960s and 1970s, Barri Boone, Summer 1982 from Processed World
President Obama and the Crisis of Black America: Interview with Cornel West , Interview of Cornel West by Dan LaBotz, Winter 2013 from New Politics
Growth of Fee-for-Service Social Work, NASW-NYC, December 2012
Occupy Ljubljana: Statement from social workers in Slovenia, the Social Workers of Occupy Ljubljana, 2011
AIDS and Gentrification, Sara Schulman, November 20, 2012 from Against the Grain
Obama’s Steady Road to Austerity, Glen Ford, January 9, 2013 from Black Agenda Report
Honoring the 44th Anniversary of the Black Panther's Free Breakfast Program, Marc Mascarenhas-Swan, January 13, 2013 from Organizing Upgrade
The Flood Next Time: Life After Emergency, Alyssa Battistoni, December 2012 from Jacobin
Showing up: TANF and the social work profession, Melinda Lewis, June 12, 2012 from Classroom to Capital
The Young and the Leftless: An Open Letter on Organization, Members of Freedom Road Socialist Organization
Social Exclusion: A Social Worker's View, Hilary Searing, 2004 from the Barefoot Social Worker
About the Social Welfare Action Alliance (SWAA), Social Welfare Action Alliance
A Socialist Vision of Eldercare, Johanna Brenner, September 11, 2012 from Ask a Socialist
Progressive Social Work Manifesto, Hong Kong, Progressive Social Work Network
Nonprofits and Housing Privatization in New Orleans, Against the Grain, October 30, 2012
New York Study Group: Reform and Revolution, the New York Study Group, 2010 & 2012 from Organizing Upgrade
New York Study Group: Speaking Up, the New York Study Group, Fall 2010 from Organizing Upgrade
A Cloward-Piven Strategy for 2012, Bhaskar Sunkara, October 22, 2012 from In These Times
Criminalizing the Homeless, Criminalizing the Rest of Us, Against the Grain, September 4, 2012

More Reposted Analysis & Essays

Putting Social Justice Back into Social Work, Michael A. Dover, September 2009 from SWAA
Health Care Reform or Ruin?, Milton Fisk, September/October 2012 from Against the Current
Government Action, Not Social Work, Can Tackle Poverty, Hilary Searing, 2007 from the Barefoot Social Worker
Social Work in Austerity Greece, Dora Dimitra Teloni, March 2012 from SWAN
Fairer Sex: Feminism and Care Labor, Sarah Leonard, August 2012 from Jacobin
Lean Production: What’s Really Hurting Public Education, Will Johnson, September 12, 2012 from Jacobin
Is the Obama Health Care Plan Really Better Than Nothing?, Bruce A. Dixon, July 22, 2009 from Black Agenda Report
A New & Unsettling Force, Willie Baptist, September 2010 from Organizing Upgrade
Disabled people face a tidal wave of prejudice and discrimination, Peter Beresford, August 30, 2012 from The Guardian
Resolution of the Poverty Summit & The Assembly to End Poverty , reposted from the Social Welfare Action Alliance, Feb 2012 from SWAA
The Roots of Client Violence Against Social Workers, Hilary Searing, 2006 from the Barefoot Social Worker
Ask a Socialist About Healthcare, Meizhu Lui, July 24 from Ask a Socialist
On the Front Lines: In Defense of Public Sector Workers and Services , Freedom Road Socialist Organization, July 13, 2013
Why attack the most vulnerable here to pay for wars over there?, Barri Boone, June 8, 2012 from Solidarity
Nor Meekly Serve Her Time: Riots and Resistance in Women's Prisons, Victoria Law, June 1, 2012