BlackCommentator.com June 11, 2015 - Issue 610: Building People Power: What Clues Can History Offer?" - Keynote Speech - Video - Justice Works 2015 - The African World By Bill Fletcher, Jr., BC Editorial Board

June 11, 2015 - Issue 610

Building People Power
What Clues
Can History Offer?"
Keynote Speech

Justice Works 2015

"Why do so many people refuse to resist
and rise up in the face of clear examples
of repression and degradation?"

On May 30 & 31, 2015, 600 of New York's top progressive activists and leaders gathered at the Desmond Hotel in Albany for Justice Works: A Conference for Progressive New York the conference, hosted by Citizen Action of New York. Bill Fletcher, Jr. delivered the keynote address, "Building People Power: What Clues Can History Offer?"

BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board member and Columnist, Bill Fletcher, Jr., is a Senior Scholar with the Institute for Policy Studies, the immediate past president of TransAfricaForum, and the author of “They’re Bankrupting Us” - And Twenty Other Myths about Unions. He is also the co-author of Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path toward Social Justice, which examines the crisis of organized labor in the USA. Other Bill Fletcher, Jr. writing can be found at billfletcherjr.com. Contact Mr. Fletcher and BC.