Power-Building Strategies – LPE Project https://lpeproject.org The Law and Political Economy Project Fri, 10 Feb 2023 20:26:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://lpeproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-LPE_Favicon_512px_BlackBG-450x450.png Power-Building Strategies – LPE Project https://lpeproject.org 32 32 The Young Lords: Building Power through Direct Action https://lpeproject.org/blog/the-young-lords-building-power-through-direct-action/ Thu, 12 May 2022 11:00:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=6927 This post is part of a series on the power-building strategies of the Black Panthers, Gray Panthers, and Young Lords, focused on their efforts to organize around health. *** They had simply been looking for a space to feed breakfast to poor children before school. The First Spanish United Methodist Church (FSUMC) seemed an ideal place. Conveniently situated in the center of East Harlem...

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]]> Gray Panthers: Bending Bureaucracy and Building Power https://lpeproject.org/blog/gray-panthers-bending-bureaucracy-and-building-power/ Tue, 10 May 2022 11:00:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=6922 This post is part of a series on the power-building strategies of the Black Panthers, Gray Panthers, and Young Lords, focused on their efforts to organize around health. *** Maggie Kuhn, the formidable founder of the Gray Panthers, was often photographed with half-moon glasses, her wispy white hair pinned atop her head, and one arthritic hand raised in a defiant fist. Even as Kuhn emphasized the...

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]]> Black Panthers: Building Power through Prefiguration https://lpeproject.org/blog/black-panthers-building-power-through-prefiguration/ Mon, 09 May 2022 11:00:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=6914 This post kicks off a series on the power-building strategies of the Black Panthers, Gray Panthers, and Young Lords, focused on their efforts to organize around health. *** Since its founding in the mid-1960s, the Black Panther Party was fiercely attacked by the US state as a terrorist group intent on toppling democracy by force of arms. Through infiltration, intimidation, assassination, bombings...

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