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Real Organizing is Hard Work
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
31 Jul 2018
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The insurgent Ocasio-Cortez campaign upset a New York City Democratic machine congressman by registering 120,000 phone calls to voters. “That’s a benchmark,” said BAR managing editor Bruce Dixon, who is also a leader of the Green Party in Georgia. “If your organization is not making 1,000 or 2,000 calls a week, what are you organizing?”

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