Who's Afraid of Frances Fox Piven? by Frances Piven

Author:Frances Piven
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The New Press
Published: 2011-07-15T00:00:00+00:00

In June 1972, the NWRO leadership announced to its membership: “We will go to the Democratic National Convention in the same manner we have always dealt with an unjust system—with representation on the inside, but our real strength on the outside, in the streets.” A major demonstration was planned, and at a huge financial cost to the organization and its affiliates about 500 leaders, members, and organizers actually attended. Given the extraordinary delegate composition of that particular Democratic convention, NWRO obtained 1,000 votes (about 1,600 were needed) supporting a plank calling for a guaranteed income of $6,500 for a family of four. It was heady stuff. “We lost,” NWRO announced in a post-convention newsletter, “but in a spiritual sense, we had won.” (Just how great a spiritual victory had been won was to be revealed in November when in part because of McGovern’s advocacy, at least in the early months of the campaign, of a guaranteed income of $4,000 for a family of four, he was obliterated by the voters.) As for the Republican convention, there was no spiritual victory; it was, NWRO proclaimed, “No place for the poor.”

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