Host of Words to Win By, a podcast about progressive wins around the world and how we achieved them. https://wordstowinby-pod.com/
Researcher, message maker, campaign strategist to progressive and Democratic causes here and abroad.
Anat Shenker-Osorio
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Poverty is a choice.
A choice made by billionaires and the politicians they purchase to take the wealth working people create.
Last week's Danish election results were messy but here's a promising & deliberately organized outcome: real left parties saw their greatest vote share so far.
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Two-year-old Kaleth is being locked away at the Dilley trailer prison. He is getting sicker with each passing day. He will not eat the food CoreCivc serves, which detainees have said sometimes has mold and worms. He now has a fever.
Turns out, the loudest possible message about prices is...prices. People know what things cost down to the dime. What they need to know is how taking action X would alter that & believe it to be so.
Like the UK Greens, the Red Green Alliance is promoting "hope not hate" and calling out the billionaires purchasing themselves politicians, not migrants nor Muslims that authoritarians denigrate in order to distract.
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In their models, people will vote because gas prices & not concentration camps. And, because in their view, the purpose of politics is to win for sake of doing so - not in order to enact an agenda - we should keep banging the prices gong & hush up about fascism.
"The future is made of the decisions that we take together." @anatosaurus.bsky.social speaking with @andreapitzer.bsky.social
Authoritarians offer people an origin story for their pain, to beat them you must counter it with truth: If you want to know who took your money, it's the people with all the money.
Hard part? Putting forth policies that piss off your donors to show you mean it.
Overthrowing a billionaire-backed fascist regime requires high bar, sustained, civil disobedience. And this requires connecting people into communities and showing we are the majority, our beliefs are the common sense norm. Both things are true.