An organized community. A radical movement. Just peace.
Professor Juan De Lara, asked pointedly, "How do we turn a liberal backlash into a radical movement for abolition?" I answered, but he didn't like my answer. As in, literally he did not push like on my comment. I don't know whether he agrees or not. My answer was, organizing. And I expanded into a quick summary of my version of organizing. It has me thinking, though, because he didn't push the button. And then today, I found this quote by Cesar Chavez. "The quote below is from him, just updated words to make it more inclusive," says his grandson, Alex Chavez: “The picket line is the best place to train organizers. One day on the picket line is where a person makes their commitment. The longer on the picket line, the stronger the commitment. A lot of workers think they make their commitment by walking off the job when nobody sees them. But you get a worker to walk off the field when his boss is watching and, in front of the other workers, throw d...
