Steve Meacham

City Life / Vida Urbana Organizing Coordinator

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Steve Meacham has been an organizer for 42 years. He has been active in movements around worker rights, housing justice, and transforming the war economy. He worked for 9 years as a welder in Quincy Shipyard. Since 1999, he has been an organizer with City Life / Vida Urbana, where he has helped develop their radical model of community organizing. Steve and his work with City Life / Vida Urbana, Right to the City, and Occupy Our Homes is featured in the Rise of the 99% chapter.

As protests and demonstrations sprout across the land, young organizers and activists need to know why and how movements are sustained and how they grow. That resource has arrived. It’s a slim volume, chock-full of artwork, entitled When We Fight, We Win!. . . . It discusses victories and losses, high points and depths, lessons learned, and missed opportunities. The core of its message is that social movements really matter, and when they are smart, adaptive, determined, and focused, they can win against tremendous odds. For such movements change minds, they transform consciousness, and they build social power that their opponents cannot resist. They echo, in action, the words of one of the greatest black leaders in American history, Frederick Douglass, who said, ‘Without struggle, there is no progress.’

—When We Fight, We Win! Why Movements Matter by Mumia Abu-Jamal, author and activist

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