I have a vision, as Martin Luther King once said. A vision of racial and economic equality, equal opportunity and civil rights for people of all colors. The question is how do I, we, go about realizing this vision?
Dr. King conceived of passive resistance, non-violent protests, to bring vast numbers of people, black and white into the street, to the schools and lunch counters, the bus stops and the Washington Mall to show their strength and insistence on their principles. I envision a similar formula.
Dr. King conceived of passive resistance, non-violent protests, to bring vast numbers of people, black and white into the street, to the schools and lunch counters, the bus stops and the Washington Mall to show their strength and insistence on their principles. I envision a similar formula.
But let me make clear what I am protesting. First and foremost, it is globalization, which is destroying labor, its unions, and consequently the working and middle classes of the United States. In this process, it has dismantled the manufacturing infrastructure and reduced us at best to a service economy. Millions of jobs, blue and white collar, we know have been “outsourced,” given away to the lowest bidders along with the hard-won benefits of US workers, including healthcare, pensions and decent working conditions.
Globalization has profited only the multi-national corporations and the rich elite who run or invest in them. The multi-national corporation sits on the backs of working people around the world, people who have been pitted against each other, and now work for less because they undersold their services to enrich those corporations. These corporations financially divided and conquered world economies.
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