Been watching a lot of debate between radical feminists & marxist feminists. As an organizer in the women’s movement for 20 years and in predominantly-women unions (education, nurses) for 18yrs, I’m asserting that it’s important to study all strands of feminism, esp these 2 (🧵) Radical feminism has the best texts on rape, misogyny, & alongside socialist feminism, has shaped my understanding of women as a political class. So many of us wouldn’t have survived without the concrete gains won by radical feminists — we wouldn’t be alive or remotely safe (2/?)

Some farmworker movement history for #CesarChavezDay: In 1955 Filipino Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee went on strike. 8 days later, the Latino National Farmworkers Association voted to join the strike (led to UFW)

The UFW strike was broad, not simply about 1 leader 🧵 Unionists like Larry Itliong & Philip Vera Cruz were socialists. They knew in order to win the strike, they had to break the bosses’ division of workers across racial groups - unite around class. Their leadership w/Dolores Huerta & Cesar Chavez broke decades of boss tactics #UFW

Lots of folks call everything they do for social change “organizing.” Let’s unpack this. There are actually different avenues for change. Which model are you actually using???

(🧵 based on @rsgexp’s book ‘No Shortcuts’) 1) ADVOCACY - litigation, lots of money on ads, polling, paid media

Ex: Think a small group of folks engaging legal strategies & paid media to force a car company to change to safer seatbelts on their products

TODAY:

✅ Hundreds of Twitter employees successfully petition & shut down 45’s Twitter account

✅ Flight attendants’ union successfully put the 1/6 white supremacists on “no fly” list

WORKERS DID ALL THAT - NOT CORPORATIONS OR THE US GOVT. latimes.com/business/story…