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People’s Action (whose tagline is “Join our joyous rebellion”) has brought rural and urban poor and working-class families together to campaign for housing justice and healthcare for all. Co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign, Reverend William Barber—who has found receptive audiences among struggling Black families in deep-blue cities and struggli
... See moreMatthew Desmond • Poverty, by America
The Urban League, however, was advocacy-which meant action-constituency-based services to black people.
Vernon Jordan Jr • Vernon Can Read!: A Memoir
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continues to make available transformative contacts and encounters, as well as precipitating a more expansive theoretical and political imagination.
Shaka McGlotten • Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality
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Nelson Denis • War Against All Puerto Ricans
“The year 1936,” Alexander Heard has noted in his landmark study of campaign financing, The Costs of Democracy, “was a turning point in the history of political party fund-raising. The policies and methods of Franklin Roosevelt’s first term produced political alignments more along economic-class lines than any since the McKinley-Bryan era.”
Robert A. Caro • The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson I
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A small minority of foundations are in fact interested in systems change, radical action on poverty and disadvantage, and programmes like the Omidyar Group’s ‘Imaginable Futures’.6 But the big money steers well clear.