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Richard Moser articles

Richard Moser has 40 years experience as an organizer and activist in the labor, student, peace, and community movements. Moser is author of "New Winter Soldiers: GI and Veteran Dissent During the Vietnam Era," and co-editor with Van Gosse of "The World the Sixties Made: Politics and Culture in Recent America.” He writes from Colorado. Be sure to take a look at his website, Be Freedom.

Weaving Our Garment of Destiny

by Richard Moser - November 21, 2015

Weaving Our Garment of Destiny

Martin Luther King Jr.: “All life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied into a single garment of destiny…We are made to live together.” Today our “garment of destiny” is woven of threads far more multicolored than in King’s day.

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: African-American Voting Rights, Civil Rights Era, Election History, Racism and Prejudice, Socialism and Labor

Where Do We Go From Here?

by Richard Moser - November 16, 2015

Where Do We Go From Here?

Some leading unions are hard at work and a few social movement groups move beyond protest. But mostly we love to demonstrate and march and respond to crisis, or to post opinion on social media, but shy away from the hard work of organizing

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: Civil Rights Era, Democracy Protests, Indigenous and Democracy, Occupy Wall Street, Socialism and Labor

Corporate Power and Empire

by Richard Moser - November 14, 2015

Corporate Power and Empire

King repeatedly identified the “giant triplets:” racism, materialism/exploitation/poverty and militarism. This post suggests a slight revision of two of the triplets I believe still in keeping with King’s vision.

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: Abraham Lincoln, African-American Voting Rights, Capitalism and Big Business, Civil Rights Era, Racism and Prejudice, Vietnam, Voting Rights Act

The Gandhi Revolution in Revolutionary Strategy

by Richard Moser - November 11, 2015

Revolutionary Strategy

By embracing Gandhi’s innovation King avoided the mistake of so many would-be revolutionaries, who — by focusing too narrowly on the conventional politics of violence or their preconceived expectations — missed the actual revolution

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: African-American Voting Rights, Civil Rights Era, Democracy Protests, Election History, India

An American Revolution by Martin Luther King Jr.

by Richard Moser - November 6, 2015

An American Revolution

King’s historical memory found the roots of revolution in the best of American political traditions. The student led sit-in movement renewed the civil rights struggle and launched the student movement.

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: Civil Rights Era, Democracy Protests, Founding Fathers, Martin Luther King Jr., Occupy Wall Street, Youth Voting Rights

Martin Luther King’s Revolution of Values

by Richard Moser - November 4, 2015

Martin Luther King's Revolution of Values

King envisioned a revolution of values, a freedom revolution that would destroy the institutionalized structures of oppression. This revolution took shape in current social movements but was also deeply rooted in the American past.

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: Civil Rights Era, Democracy Protests, Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. and the Beloved Community

by Richard Moser - October 31, 2015

Beloved Community

The beloved community evoked a world based on community values of mutual aid and cooperation, the recognition of interdependence, shared responsibility and respect freely given.

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: Civil Rights Era, Democracy Protests, Martin Luther King Jr.

Confidence and Purpose or Fear and Fatalism?

by Richard Moser - October 26, 2015

Fear and Fatalism

It is hard to believe that age-old problems like race and war can be surmounted or the catastrophes of climate change avoided. Without a rhetorical strategy that can promote purpose and confidence, fear and fatalism will weaken our efforts.

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: African-American Voting Rights, Civil Rights Era, Democracy Protests, Founding Fathers, Religion and Democracy

Martin Luther King Jr’s Nonviolent Strategy

by Richard Moser - October 22, 2015

Nonviolent Strategy

King placed civil disobedience within a framework consistent with the inside/outside strategy. The disruptive nature of direct action and the process of negotiations are part of the same strategy.

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: Civil Rights Era, Democracy Protests, Election History, Martin Luther King Jr.

The Real and Rhetorical Strategies of Martin Luther King

by Richard Moser - October 20, 2015

Strategies of Martin Luther King

Martin Luther King was one of the few political leaders, then or now, that was able to articulate a coherent political strategy that emerged from and connected with on-the-ground social movement activism.

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: African-American Voting Rights, Civil Rights Era, Democracy Protests, Martin Luther King Jr.

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