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WORKING GLOSSARY OF ORGANIZING TERMS CAMPAIGNS: Sustained, time-bound, organizing fights, with a target (someone who can give you what ABELISM: 1) Oppression, prejudice, stereotyping, or you want) to win concrete policy and institutional discrimination against disabled people on the basis change on issues that impact your constituency. of actual or presumed disability; 2) the belief that (SONG) people are superior or inferior, have better quality of life, or have lives more valuable or worth living on the CAPITALISM: An economic system in which the basis of acutal or percieved disability means of production, access to goods, and the value (autistichoya.com) of goods are controlled by private individuals and corporations. Racial Capitalism, as theorized by ABOLITION: As defined by Critical Resistance, a Cedric Robinson, argues that this system was built and long term political vision with the goal of eliminating flourished through the exploitation of people through imprisonment, policing, and surveillance, and creating slavery, imperialism, and genocide. Neoliberalism lasting alternatives to punishment and imprisonment is a model of capitalism that operates through the privitaization of public goods, deregulation of ACTIVISM: ‘People who take action on behalf trade, diminshment of social services and emphasis of things we care about. Activists attend rallies, on individual freedoms. – Charlene Carruthers, make phone calls, write letters and speak out Unapologetic against injustice. But not all activists are community organizers.’ Charlene Carruthers, Unapologetic (p. 89) COLONIALISM: Colonialism is a practice of domination, which involves the subjugation of ADVOCACY: Literally, the act of pleading or arguing one people to another. One of the difficulties in in favor of something publicly.
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