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Palestine and Israel

Stephen Melkisethian

Intro: Palestine and the US

We’ve come together to help people understand what’s happening in Gaza from an organizing perspective, and we will be sharing our perspectives while also sharing many points of view throughout the issue and we hope that you engage. This issue is important to many of us, and we intend to create space accessible to a variety of organizers for nuanced reflection and debate that pushes readers past fear and isolation, and towards true solidarity. 

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How Liberal Legal Frameworks Become Fodder for Fascism

Dima Khalidi of Palestine Legal explains how our legal system’s inability to challenge underlying power structures allows for the far right to wield it against our people and our movements. Adapted from remarks at the Through the Portal Conference in Chicago, September 2024.

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Towards a New Philanthropy

How do we build together from the demand for an end to genocide towards a collective call for the safety, dignity, and freedom of the Palestinian people?

Pray-in action led by Adalah Justice Project

How Cultural Strategy Drives Long-Term Change

Cultural strategies have long been central to the success of social movements. Ciara Taylor of the Kairos Center uses prose, images, and songs to capture the role of cultural organizing in the ongoing struggle for a free Palestine.

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Can Culture Build Power?

Get a behind the scenes at Look Loud, a cultural organization leveling up protests everywhere with beautiful, intentional, and powerful art.

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Cultural Boycott, and Ending Complicity in Genocide

Shiv Kotecha explains the role of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) in fighting against Israel's use of culture as a weapon of genocide.

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Black Feminist Reflections on Palestine Liberation

Barbara Ransby charts the relationship between Black feminist organizing and the movement for a Free Palestine, and provides a poem in solidarity with the people of Gaza.

Building Resilient Organizations

How Progressive Organizers Can Build Healthier, More Effective Coalitions for Climate Action

Coalition work depends on trust and clarity—here's the blueprint to get there.

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How (Not) to Dismantle White Supremacy

Is the fixation on naming "white supremacy culture"  overtaking the fight against white supremacy? 

 

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The Ten Components of Good Strategy

Never Again Action’s Serena Adlerstein proposes a framework for understanding strategy that aims to give organizers what they need to build more resilient, and effective, organizations.

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Building Better Leadership Pipelines

In “Building Resilient Organizations,” Maurice Mitchell articulates what many in the professional left have felt but are afraid to say; the once-stable ground of our movement has turned into a space with rising tensions, organizational infighting, and proxy wars that have undermined our ability to be effective.

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