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Portland Metro People's Coalition

Serving the needs of the many instead of the privileged few.

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case studies

February 28, 2019 By aqatc

Jackson

In Jackson, Mississippi, a deindustrialized, majority African-American city, the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement is organizing to build dual power through people’s assemblies and a network of worker cooperatives: Cooperation Jackson. They also critically engage with electoral politics. In 2017, Chokwe …

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February 28, 2019 By aqatc

Richmond

In this Bay Area working-class majority-POC town dominated by a Chevron refinery, the Richmond Progressive Alliance ran a slate of candidates that did not accept corporate contributions, organized at the grassroots level and now has a majority on the city council, winning rent control, anti-racial …

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February 28, 2019 By aqatc

Barcelona

In 2014, Barcelona en Comú emerged from grassroots social movements and occupations of public spaces to organize a social movement for radical democracy centered in the city, to win power and govern in more inclusive, participatory, transparent and accountable ways. In 2015, Ada Colau, a housing …

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