The strategy of targeting the private sector, to pressure the owners of capital to either withdraw their support for a regime, or else to use their influence to force policy changes, is such a logical and effective approach that it even featured prominently in insurgency training manuals from as far back as 1944. Utilizing tactics…
Author: Shahid Bolsen
Shahid Bolsen is the founder of the Middle Nation Movement.
Whenever we talk about targeting companies, the first (maybe onl…
Whenever we talk about targeting companies, the first (maybe only) thing that most people think of is boycotting. It is worth considering that the most successful social movement in the US, the most hated by power, the most vilified and most severely persecuted, was the labor movement. The drive to organize workers to demand their…