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Sun Jan 4, 2015, 12:56 PM Jan 2015

2015: The Year We Build Power Together

The Year Starts With the Potential of a Major Victory of the People Over Corporate Power, but We Must Unite to Win It

by Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers / January 2nd, 2015

The major task for the social movement: 2015 the Year We Build Power Together.

In 2014 we saw tremendous growth of the movement across numerous fronts of struggle – worker rights and the wages, racism and policing, climate, the environment and extreme energy extraction, building a new economy and so much more. We also saw how uniting and working in solidarity is essential for success.

“Building power together” means working together as a movement of movements to build on the progress of 2014 when people created a larger and bolder movement. We build together because our issues are all connected and unified power is when we are strongest.

We have an immediate challenge in 2015 that threatens our progress. Obama and Congress are pushing to finalize the Trans-Pacific Partnership. If we don’t stop it, our struggles will be set back and social, economic and environmental justice will be more difficult to achieve. But we can defeat the corporate powers that exploit our communities if we unite and work together and doing so will strengthen us greatly.

Our Struggles Are Connected ....

Full article: http://dissidentvoice.org/2015/01/2015-the-year-we-build-power-together/
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2015: The Year We Build Power Together (Original Post) polly7 Jan 2015 OP
Fighting Obama over Keystone XL Pipeline and the noxious TPP. 11 dimensional chess at its truest!!! blkmusclmachine Jan 2015 #1
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