http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/05/1375155/-Imagine-a-coalition-unifying-Black-Lives-Matter-LGBT-equality-and-the-fight-for-a-living-wage?detail=email
When different progressive movements stick together, everybody wins.
Silos are dangerous. I’m not talking about the kind that house nuclear missiles, but rather the metaphorical kind, the kind that divide people who could and should be working together toward a shared goal. Too often, progressives have found themselves divided into these kinds of silos, for example, with women—themselves typically divided by race and ethnicity—fighting for gender equality, LGBT folks fighting for gay rights, unions and workers fighting for labor rights, and on and on.
To some degree, these divisions are understandable. Part of the way a marginalized group empowers itself is by creating a movement in which its members play a predominant role. At the end of the day, however, the goal of a political movement ought not to be solely or even primarily to help those who actively participate to feel empowered—as important as that is— but rather to achieve specific policy or other concrete aims that improve the lives of all those whom the movement represents. The movement must be a means to an end, not an end unto itself. Achieving those ends requires marshaling as much support as possible, and that means each group must break out of its silo and support one another’s causes.
Three of the progressive movements that are most active right now are Black Lives Matter, the push for marriage equality and LGBT rights more broadly, and the push for a minimum/living wage. Each of these has not only gained widespread publicity, but also helped achieve real successes, whether we are talking about marriage equality becoming legal, hikes in the minimum wage as well as increased minimum wages paid by major employers, or the reforms being implemented in Ferguson, Missouri. Each of these movements is powerful on its own. Working together, they can achieve much more. And they are coming together.
that is really a great idea it exposes more people to the plight of the other therefore more support for each. devils advocate for a minute, leadership and accepting of those individual leaders by the others but not stealing thunder from one or the other thereby making it about individuals instead of the movements is a precautionary tale,. not all can handle that dynamic especially if they were founders of their respective movements human nature is a reality that can foster intolerance and that can be a deal killer and fodder for those who oppose. can't let too many chefs in the kitchen difference in recipes can cause burned pots and plans where as joint agreed upon ones make for a healthy result.
guarding against the personalities coming into play will be a challenge but if those leaders are true leaders with unselfish agendas it's more likely yo be a success in ways now unimaginable.
God Bless those who would and help them be the one's who could.
