Bill Fletcher, Jr.
July 14, 2010
PDA welcomes Bill Fletcher, Jr. to our Advisory Board
In February 2005 Danny Glover and I published an article in The Nation suggesting a particular approach to electoral politics. Entitled “Visualizing a Neo-Rainbow”, we argued that there was a need for a progressive electoral approach very much grounded in the realities of the US electoral system. This approach, which we called “neo-Rainbow” (drawing, in part, from the experience of the 1980s Jesse Jackson Presidential campaigns and the construction of the National Rainbow Coalition), involved the development of progressive, electoral projects at the local level that operated both inside and outside the Democratic Party. By “inside/outside” of the Democratic Party we meant two things. The first is that efforts needed to include running candidates within the Democratic primaries but also running independently when necessary. The second was that any electoral strategy needed to involve both mass action as well as ballot-box action.
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