movement action planning for single-payer activists october 31, 2015
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Centrally coordinated Multiple organizations & communities - different priorities & strategies Limited timeline, beginning & end Generational timeline, multiple stages Campaigns vs. Social MovementsTRANSCRIPT
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Movement Action Planning for Single-
Payer Activists
www.healthcare-now.orgOctober 31, 2015
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Theme of the Conference
How Do Social Movements Win?
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Centrally coordinated
Multiple organizations & communities -
different priorities & strategies
Limited timeline, beginning & end
Generational timeline, multiple stages
Campaigns vs. Social Movements
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Effective Movement Building:Tale of Two States
• Minority support for single payer• Limited social justice infrastructure• Small activist network• Small coalition• Hostile Legislature and Governor
• Strong majority support for single payer• High union density, strong community orgs• Large activist network• Large coalition• Strong Support in Legislature and/or From Governor
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Movement Action Planning (MAP)
• Modeling Normal Stages of Successful Social Movements
• Overcoming Perception of Movement Failure Bill Moyer
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8 Stages of Social Movements
1. Normal Times2. Prove the Failure of Official Institutions3. Ripening Conditions4. Take Off5. (Perception of Failure)6. Majority Public Opinion7. Success8. Continuing the Struggle
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8 Stages of Social Movements
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The “Take Off” Stage
• Trigger event(s) leads to an action campaign: rallies, marches, civil disobedience.•Successful tactics repeated around the country.
• Dramatically exposes the problem to the general public, undermines belief that existing policy is in accordance with societal norms.
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The “Perception of Failure” Stage
• Common mistake: seeing movement as only “take off” times, and decline of public, mass actions as failure of the movement.
• Take off stage transformative for public awareness of the problem and capacity of the movement, but rarely leads to success.
• Majority support stage brings to the front different leadership roles, organizational forms.
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“Majority Public Opinion” Stage
• Long-term grassroots struggle leads to slow, imperceptible process of social transformation.
• “The key to Stage Six success is ultimately the ongoing, day-in and day-out basic organizing efforts of local activists, which include constant outreach and involvement of the local citizenry. This can only be done by a wide variety of organizations with relatively few paid staff but a large number of volunteers.”
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Stage 6 Crisis Management
1. Powerholders change strategy – movement counters each new strategy.
2. Each new strategy more difficult to sustain, undermining long-term viability.
3. MIDDLE of Stage 6, powerholders co-opt movement’s goals, ideas, rhetoric.
4. Try to co-opt movement groups on the right end of the spectrum.
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Stage 6 Majority Support5. Movement wins majority support for proposed
alternative.6. Movement shifts towards mainstream political
and legal structures.7. Powerholders make dramatic shifts in their
positions to avoid defeat.
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The “Success” Stage
Endgame Process1. Dramatic Showdown2. Quiet Showdown3. Attrition
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Black Lives Matter“Black males are more likely to go to prison… is it mostly due
to discrimination… or something else”? (Gallup, 2013)
All White Hispanic Black0%
10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%
100%
68% 74% 69%
40%
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Black Lives MatterDo “blacks have as good a chance as whites… to get any
kind of job for which they are qualified”? (Gallup 2013)
All White Hispanic Black0%
10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%
100%
25% 19% 24%
50%
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Occupy Movement
1972 20130%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
67%80%
Feel the rich get richer and the poor get poorer
Source: Harris Interactive (cited in AEI Political Report, "Income Inequality: What the Polls Tell Us"
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Tax the Rich
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The Single Payer Movement
• Almost universal recognition of the crisis• Majority support for the single-payer alternative across much of the country• Active grassroots organizations & coalitions across the country waging “Majority Support” outreach & organizing• Several states have launched/are planning “end game” tactics
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Additional Resources!
http://singlepayer2015.wikidot.com
www.healthcare-now.org