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Chas Walker

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Tag: Social Movements

A Problem of Ambition

What we miss when we talk about “political ambitions” as if they were only about someone’s career path.

Culture, Elections, Feminism, Race, Social Movements

Prisoners of the American Election

A few reflections on “Prisoners of the American Dream” that are relevant to unions, social movements, and insurgent electoral campaigns.

Books, Elections, Labor, Race, Social Movements

The Working Dead: Reviving the Crowd as a Protagonist

Disaster films since the 1990s fail to imagine a future in which ordinary people have a place, let alone one that they build. We need to envision a different horizon.

BlackLivesMatter, COVID-19, Culture, Social Movements, Workers Rights

“Soul Searching” Will Not Stop the Police Murders of Black People

Framing issues of racial oppression and police violence as something to be fixed by examining our inner lives lets existing power structures remain intact and unchallenged.

BlackLivesMatter, Joe Biden, Social Movements

Frederick Douglass and the Transformational Power of Courage in a Fearsome World

A teenage Douglass fought a notorious slavebreaker in 1833, and the courage he found is relevant to contemporary struggles for liberation.

Frederick Douglass, Philosophy, Social Movements

They called us ‘flat-earthers.’ But we were right.

Reflections on the upsurge of strikes and militancy by today’s social movements from a veteran of the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle.

Climate Change, Social Movements, Workers Rights

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