Libero Della Piana

Libero Della Piana, the Senior Strategist at Just Strategy, has thirty years of experience as a writer and organizer for social movement organizations. His writing has been featured in such publications as The Forge, Colorlines, Black Commentator, and People's World. Libero was born and grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah, and lives in East Harlem, N.Y.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Libero Della Piana

Opinion

The best protest songs of the decade
January 13, 2010 By Libero Della Piana
This is the season of 'best of the year' and 'best of the decade' lists when it comes to books, movies, music and more. I decided to compile a list of some of the best and...
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Labor

Labor & community activists converge @Organizing 2.0
December 7, 2009 By Libero Della Piana
NEW YORK -- Several hundred labor organizers, community organizers and progressive technologists gathered here Dec. 6 for the Organizing 2.0 Conference.
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World

Protests mark 5th anniversary of Iraq war, 4,000th U.S. troop death
March 28, 2008 By Libero Della Piana
WASHINGTON — “How many more must die in vain for a lie?” That was the question asked by Joan Kosloff, whose stepson, Sgt. Sherwood Baker of the Pennsylvania National Guard, died in Iraq in 2003. “Congress...
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Opinion

Zones of conflict: challenge to African unity
September 21, 2007 By Libero Della Piana

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Labor

Remembering Carter G. Woodson
February 1, 2002 By Libero Della Piana
Carter G. Woodson established Negro History Week in 1926 and chose to celebrate it the second week of February because it marks the birthdays of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln, two men who left an indelible...
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