Michael Harrington - Revision history

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 ==References==
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 As a preliminary to the convention's Socialist Caucus meeting, indeed as a "building event" and as a continued show of support for Senator [[Edward Kennedy]] (D-MA), the Democratic Agenda sponsored
-a convention rally at New York's Town Hall. The speakers included [[Herman Badillo]], [[Julian Bond]], Fran Bennick, [[Harry Britt]], [[Cesar Chavez]], Rep. [[John Conyers]] (D-MI}, [[Doug Fraser|Douglas Fraser]], [[Murray Finley]], Michael Harrington, [[Terry Herndon]], [[Ruth Jordan]], [[Ruth Messinger]], [[Eleanor Smeal]], [[Gloria Steinem]] and [[William Winpisinger]].
+a convention rally at New York's Town Hall. The speakers included [[Herman Badillo]], [[Julian Bond]], Fran Bennick, [[Harry Britt]], [[Cesar Chavez]], Rep. [[John Conyers]] (D-MI), [[Doug Fraser|Douglas Fraser]], [[Murray Finley]], Michael Harrington, [[Terry Herndon]], [[Ruth Jordan]], [[Ruth Messinger]], [[Eleanor Smeal]], [[Gloria Steinem]] and [[William Winpisinger]].
 DSOC works within the [[Democratic Party]], said Harrington, because of the party's relationships with organized workers, [[blacks]], [[feminist]]s, [[environmentalist]]s and other "[[progressive]] groups."
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 ===Socialist International===
 :{{Main article|Socialist International}}
-According to Timothy Sears, Michael Harrington was the principal author of the Socialist International’s new statement of principles, "but he found the process of writing-by-committee maddening. The initial draft he wrote was absolutely brilliant—some of the best he ever wrote." However,  at the SI Congress in [[Lima]], [[Peru]] in 1986, it was roundly criticized by those (particularly from the French Socialist Party) who "were essentially [[Blairite]]s before [[Tony Blair]]" and considered his draft excessively “[[utopia]]n.” They insisted on major changes to tone it down. Harrington also wrote the final version that was adopted, "which is quite good, but he was really frustrated with the whole thing". Harrington, Jim Chapin and Sears were [[Democratic Socialists of America]] delegates at the Lima Congress.
+According to Timothy Sears, Michael Harrington was the principal author of the Socialist International's new statement of principles, "but he found the process of writing-by-committee maddening. The initial draft he wrote was absolutely brilliant—some of the best he ever wrote." However,  at the SI Congress in [[Lima]], [[Peru]] in 1986, it was roundly criticized by those (particularly from the French Socialist Party) who "were essentially [[Blairite]]s before [[Tony Blair]]" and considered his draft excessively “[[utopia]]n.” They insisted on major changes to tone it down. Harrington also wrote the final version that was adopted, "which is quite good, but he was really frustrated with the whole thing". Harrington, Jim Chapin and Sears were [[Democratic Socialists of America]] delegates at the Lima Congress.
 :''I remember Mike and Jim talking about whether we should publish his original draft as a DSA pamphlet. Someplace I must still have a copy of the original draft…''<ref>[http://www.dsaboston.org/yradical/yr2008-01.pdf TYR, Jan. 2008]</ref>

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 ===Eugene V. Debs award===
 Every year since the mid 1960s  the  [[Indiana]] based [[Eugene V. Debs]] Foundation holds Eugene Debs Award Banquet in Terre Haute, to honor an approved social or labor activist. The 1973 honoree,  was Michael Harrington.<ref>[http://debsfoundation.org/foundation.html Eugene V. Debs Foundation homepage], accessed March 14, 2011</ref>
 ===Harrington symposium===

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−	'''Michael Harrington''' (1928 - 1989) was a socialist activist, member of the [[League for Industrial Democracy]], and generally credited with inspiring [[LBJ]]'s [[Great Society\|War on Poverty]] with his book, ''The Other America''.<ref>{{cite book\|last=Kurtz\|first=Stanley\|title=Radical-in-Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism\|publisher=Simon and Schuster\|date=2010\|pages=31}}</ref><ref>{{cite book\|last=Horowitz\|first=David\|title=The Shadow Party: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton, and Sixties Radicals Seized Control of the Democratic Party\|publisher=Simon and Schuster\|date=2006\|pages=85}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/01/08/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-war-on-poverty/ \|title=Everything you need to know about the war on poverty \|work=Washington Post \|date=January 8, 2014 \|quote="Many historians, such as Harrington biographer Maurice Isserman, credit Harrington and the book [The Other America] (which John F. Kennedy purportedly read while in office, along with the MacDonald review) with spurring Kennedy and then Johnson to formulate an anti-poverty agenda"}}</ref>	+	'''Michael Harrington''' (1928 - 1989) was a socialist activist, member of the [[League for Industrial Democracy]], and generally credited with inspiring [[LBJ]]'s [[Great Society\|War on Poverty]] with his book, ''The Other America''.<ref>{{cite book\|last=Kurtz\|first=Stanley\|title=Radical-in-Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism\|publisher=Simon and Schuster\|date=2010\|pages=31}}</ref><ref>{{cite book\|last=Horowitz\|first=David\|title=The Shadow Party: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton, and Sixties Radicals Seized Control of the Democratic Party\|publisher=Simon and Schuster\|date=2006\|pages=85}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/01/08/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-war-on-poverty/ \|title=Everything you need to know about the war on poverty \|work=Washington Post \|date=January 8, 2014 \|quote="Many historians, such as Harrington biographer Maurice Isserman, credit Harrington and the book ''The Other America'' (which John F. Kennedy purportedly read while in office, along with the MacDonald review) with spurring Kennedy and then Johnson to formulate an anti-poverty agenda"}}</ref>

	==Great Society==		==Great Society==

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 * full employment with price controls "by putting Americans back to work as part of a national plan to meet desperately urgent human and economic needs;"
 * a comprehensive [[Medicare for All|national health plan]];
-* greatly expanded federal housing programs that would guarantee "the right to decent housing";
+* greatly expanded federal housing programs that would guarantee "the right to decent [[housing]]";
 * ending federal subsidies to agribusiness corporations while "providing encouragement" to "family farmers."<ref>''Information Digest'', December 14, 1979, pages 368</ref>

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−	'''Michael Harrington''' (1928 - 1989) was a socialist activist, member of the [[League for Industrial Democracy]], and generally credited with inspiring [[LBJ]]'s [[Great Society\|War on Poverty]].<ref>{{cite book\|last=Kurtz\|first=Stanley\|title=Radical-in-Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism\|publisher=Simon and Schuster\|date=2010\|pages=31}}</ref><ref>{{cite book\|last=Horowitz\|first=David\|title=The Shadow Party: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton, and Sixties Radicals Seized Control of the Democratic Party\|publisher=Simon and Schuster\|date=2006\|pages=85}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/01/08/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-war-on-poverty/ \|title=Everything you need to know about the war on poverty \|work=Washington Post \|date=January 8, 2014 \|quote="Many historians, such as Harrington biographer Maurice Isserman, credit Harrington and the book [The Other America] (which John F. Kennedy purportedly read while in office, along with the MacDonald review) with spurring Kennedy and then Johnson to formulate an anti-poverty agenda" }}</ref>	+	'''Michael Harrington''' (1928 - 1989) was a socialist activist, member of the [[League for Industrial Democracy]], and generally credited with inspiring [[LBJ]]'s [[Great Society\|War on Poverty]] with his book, ''The Other America''.<ref>{{cite book\|last=Kurtz\|first=Stanley\|title=Radical-in-Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism\|publisher=Simon and Schuster\|date=2010\|pages=31}}</ref><ref>{{cite book\|last=Horowitz\|first=David\|title=The Shadow Party: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton, and Sixties Radicals Seized Control of the Democratic Party\|publisher=Simon and Schuster\|date=2006\|pages=85}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/01/08/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-war-on-poverty/ \|title=Everything you need to know about the war on poverty \|work=Washington Post \|date=January 8, 2014 \|quote="Many historians, such as Harrington biographer Maurice Isserman, credit Harrington and the book [The Other America] (which John F. Kennedy purportedly read while in office, along with the MacDonald review) with spurring Kennedy and then Johnson to formulate an anti-poverty agenda"}}</ref>

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 ===DSA founding convention===
-The Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee  founding convention Socialism'73 took place in [[New York City]], October 12 and 13, 1973, NY University. Speakers included;
+The [[Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee]] founding convention Socialism'73 took place in [[New York City]], October 12 and 13, 1973, NY University. Speakers included;
 *David Lewis, leader, [[New Democratic Party]] of Canada, "US economic imperialism".
 *Michael Harrington

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 The [[American Solidarity Movement]] was announced in early 1984 by [[Democratic Socialists of America]], as a vehicle  to support American [[labor union]]s it considered under attack, or on strike and in need of support.
-Members of the Initiating Committee for an American Solidarity Movement were: [[Michael Harrington]] (convenor), [[Stanley Aronowitz]], [[Balfour Brickner]], [[Harry Britt]], [[Harvey Cox]], Rep. [[Ron Dellums]], [[Bogdan Denitch]], [[Barbara Ehrenreich]], [[Cynthia Fuchs Epstein|Cynthia Epstein]], [[Jules Feiffer]], Rep. [[Barney Frank]], Msgr. [[George Higgins]], [[Irving Howe]], [[Eleanor Holmes Norton]], [[Frances Fox Piven]], [[Jose Rivera]], [[Ray Rogers]], [[Gloria Steinem]], [[Peter Steinfels]], [[Ellen Willis]].<ref>Democratic Left, Jan./Feb. 1984, page 6</ref>
+Members of the Initiating Committee for an American Solidarity Movement were: Michael Harrington (convenor), [[Stanley Aronowitz]], [[Balfour Brickner]], [[Harry Britt]], [[Harvey Cox]], Rep. [[Ron Dellums]], [[Bogdan Denitch]], [[Barbara Ehrenreich]], [[Cynthia Fuchs Epstein|Cynthia Epstein]], [[Jules Feiffer]], Rep. [[Barney Frank]], Msgr. [[George Higgins]], [[Irving Howe]], [[Eleanor Holmes Norton]], [[Frances Fox Piven]], [[Jose Rivera]], [[Ray Rogers]], [[Gloria Steinem]], [[Peter Steinfels]], [[Ellen Willis]].<ref>Democratic Left, Jan./Feb. 1984, page 6</ref>
 ===Socialist International===