Jonathan Matthew Smucker

Be the change you wish to see in the world. State power is also important.

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  • Hegemony How-To: A Roadmap for Radicals

    At long last, my book… “A powerful, rigorous, and clear-eyed guide to building social justice movements.” —Publishers Weekly “As the world faces the horrors of a Trump presidency, many good people are asking, ‘What can I do?’ Jonathan Smucker’s book provides an urgent field manual for answering that question.” —Jeremy Scahill author of Blackwater and Dirty […]

    Jonathan Matthew Smucker

    January 5, 2017
    Uncategorized
    hegemony, power, progressives, radicals, strategy
  • My short posts are mostly at Medium now.

    You can read them here.

    Jonathan Matthew Smucker

    November 10, 2016
    Uncategorized
  • Daniel Berrigan, SJ (May 9, 1921 – April 30, 2016)

    Rest in peace, Daniel Berrigan, SJ (May 9, 1921 – April 30, 2016) His words as he and eight co-conspirators stood and burned the draft files that they had just appropriated from the draft board in Catonsville, Maryland: Our apologies, good friends, for the fracture of good order, the burning of paper instead of children, […]

    Jonathan Matthew Smucker

    May 1, 2016
    Uncategorized
    Catonsville Nine, Daniel Berrigan, peace
  • We can haz society? Taxes, democracy & the Panama Papers

    What do you need to know about the Panama Papers? Let’s see, people who are richer than most of us can even imagine have an elaborate system to hide the trillions of dollars that we would need to tax if we wanted to, say, maintain our basic infrastructure (e.g., bridges, schools) and, you know, hopefully […]

    Jonathan Matthew Smucker

    April 6, 2016
    Uncategorized
    capitalism, democracy, Panama Papers, socialism, taxes
  • Young Bernie Supporters: We’re Not “Liberal”

    When will pollsters stop asking people — especially young people — how “liberal” they are? The Washington Post ran a story yesterday about how the younger voters in Iowa who went overwhelmingly for Sanders were surprisingly less liberal than one might have expected. Indeed, those who went hardest for Sanders weren’t those who considered themselves […]

    Jonathan Matthew Smucker

    February 6, 2016
    Uncategorized
    Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, liberals, progressive, socialism
  • Bernie Sanders and the emerging populist alignment

    There’s a lot wrong with how pundits (among others) tend to talk about movements. They may say, for example, “Occupy Wall Street — what did it accomplish? It didn’t go anywhere. Where is it now?” And what they fail to see is that Occupy Wall Street was not about itself—was not about existing forever as […]

    Jonathan Matthew Smucker

    February 1, 2016
    Uncategorized
    #BlackLivesMatter, Bernie Sanders, Occupy Wall Street, social movements
  • Democratic Party establishment’s advice to young people

    Jonathan Matthew Smucker

    January 30, 2016
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    #NoWeCant, Bernie Sanders, Bernie2016, Occupy Wall Street
  • The loudest voices

    The voices of hatred are too often louder than the voices of love and compassion, but do not mistake the loudest voices for the society. We must not let these voices speak in the name of ‘the American people.’ Our nation has some horrific legacies that we have to own up to. But we should […]

    Jonathan Matthew Smucker

    December 10, 2015
    Uncategorized
    compassion, refugees, scapegoating
  • #KeystoneXL: Taking sides and winning

    Important news today. I feel so proud of all my friends, colleagues, and comrades who chose to intervene in history, to challenge ‘fate’, to not be indifferent about humanity’s future, to work to stop the Keystone XL. This victory is not everything, but it is certainly something—something important—in this age of resignation and hopelessness. May […]

    Jonathan Matthew Smucker

    November 6, 2015
    Uncategorized
    Antonio Gramsci, climate, Keystone XL
  • BeyondtheChoir.org website relaunch coming soon

    We are relaunching our website this fall (2015) in order to reflect the current training and movement support work of Beyond the Choir. The current site was constructed to serve as an online forum for grassroots mobilization &#151 for people who are working for social justice to share practical strategies, tactics and tools, and to analyze the constraints and openings in our political terrain. We will be archiving past posts so that they are still available, but the new site will serve our organizational mission. Please check back this fall to find out more about Beyond the Choir’s work.


    Beyond the Choir strategy training in Atlanta, GA

    Jonathan Matthew Smucker

    August 27, 2015
    Uncategorized
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