{"id":22115,"date":"2015-11-29T21:22:37","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T02:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=22115"},"modified":"2015-11-29T21:22:37","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T02:22:37","slug":"the-big-difference-between-organizing-and-mobilizing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2015\/11\/29\/the-big-difference-between-organizing-and-mobilizing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Big Difference Between Organizing and Mobilizing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alternet has this great article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/labor\/how-unions-can-win-future\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Alternet article\">The Big Difference Between Organizing and Mobilizing: How Unions Can Win in the Future<\/a>, A discussion on what ails the labor movement and why we need to stop ignoring the rank-and-file.<\/p>\n<p>This is an interview with Jane McAlevey, a labor organizer known for her work with SEIU in the 2000s. One of McAlevey&#8217;s answers only begins to show you the good stuff to learn by reading the whole article.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nOur assumptions about who\u2019s going to think what are so often wrong. That\u2019s why it\u2019s so fun do an organizing conversation with just a worker on the door. You can pull up to a door, see a conservative bumper sticker or something else and start making assumptions. But then you go in there, and through the process of a good, long, face-to-face conversation, almost every time, the individual comes out pissed off at their boss, understands that their boss is connected to a bigger system, and starts for the first time to think, \u201cI can do something about this if we act collectively.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I can attest to the fact that I have learned a number of lessons from this article about what I, as a grassroots organizer for Bernie Sanders, can do better to further the cause of the revolution that Bernie Sanders says we need.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alternet has this great article The Big Difference Between Organizing and Mobilizing: How Unions Can Win in the Future, A discussion on what ails the labor movement and why we need to stop ignoring the rank-and-file. This is an interview with Jane McAlevey, a labor organizer known for her work with SEIU in the 2000s. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22115","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22116,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22115\/revisions\/22116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}