Excerpt: A white progressive who organized Occupy Wall Street )WS) excluded white allies from a critical meeting with New York’s Local 1199 union, which has since thrown its enormous resources behind the media-magnified protest.
In an email to the other organizers, he asked for a second organizer to accompany him to the meeting, but he specifically barred white activists. “I am meeting the 1199 executive council tomorrow to try and convince them to come out for us. It’s in midtown and I *need* someone to be with me, and that person needs not to be white,” he wrote in a Sept. 29 evening email. “This will mean the difference, I bet,” said Myerson.
OccuList: Protest leader excludes white ally to gain union support
Excerpt: In New York City, protesters’ daily “General Assembly” meetings allows “marginalized voices” to skip past a line of other waiting speakers, organizer Jesse Myerson told The Daily Caller. When the attendees gather, those “marginalized voices are able to jump the stack (that is, if there are 10 men slated to speak and a woman wishes to join the queue, she is granted a position toward the front of the line, for example),” he wrote to TheDC. (RELATED: OccuList leader excludes white ally to gain union support)
OccuList: Push for diversity spurs internal ‘Occupy Wall Street’ conflicts
In an email to the other organizers, he asked for a second organizer to accompany him to the meeting, but he specifically barred white activists. “I am meeting the 1199 executive council tomorrow to try and convince them to come out for us. It’s in midtown and I *need* someone to be with me, and that person needs not to be white,” he wrote in a Sept. 29 evening email. “This will mean the difference, I bet,” said Myerson.
OccuList: Protest leader excludes white ally to gain union support
Excerpt: In New York City, protesters’ daily “General Assembly” meetings allows “marginalized voices” to skip past a line of other waiting speakers, organizer Jesse Myerson told The Daily Caller. When the attendees gather, those “marginalized voices are able to jump the stack (that is, if there are 10 men slated to speak and a woman wishes to join the queue, she is granted a position toward the front of the line, for example),” he wrote to TheDC. (RELATED: OccuList leader excludes white ally to gain union support)
OccuList: Push for diversity spurs internal ‘Occupy Wall Street’ conflicts
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