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Campaigning to Limit Comcast

Andrew Willis Garcés

Ten years ago, Philadelphia’s Media Mobilizing Project launched a campaign to force Comcast to provide service to working-class residents. It was a learning experience in “inside game” organizing that continues to shape the city’s progressive movements.

The Craft of Campaigns

Andrew Willis Garcés

Disrupting the Movement Ecosystem

Heather Cronk on GetEqual's campaign to end "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"

Courtesy of Training for Change

Andrew Willis Garcés

Grieving After a Big Campaign Loss

West Virginia Can't Wait's Kately Lauer on our movement's growing pains

Courtesy of Training for Change

Andrew Willis Garcés

Campaigning against a “done deal” in Philadelphia

Daniel Hunter of 350.org on the campaign to stop casino development in Philadelphia.

Courtesy of Training for Change

Andrew Willis Garcés

A Campaign to Stop Amazon's Price-Gouging

Women’s March uses campaigns as "political identity formation moments"

Courtesy of Training for Change

Andrew Willis Garcés

SONG’s "Free From Fear" Campaign

The Birth of Black Mama’s Bail Outs

Courtesy of Training for Change

Andrew Willis Garcés

The Campaign to End Cash Bail

This year, Illinois will become the first state to eliminate wealth-based pretrial incarceration. The path to passing the legislation holds lessons for organizers in how to win large-scale victories.

Courtesy of Training for Change

Andrew Willis Garcés

The #CancelStudentDebt Campaign

Eleni Schermer and Ann Bowers reflect on the Debt Collective's work over the past ten years.

Courtesy of Training for Change

Andrew Willis Garcés

Building a Citywide Tenant Union in Kansas City

KC Tenants's Tara Raghuveer is "ruthless" about base building.

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A Powerful Tool for Campaigns and Crises

Too often, we base critical strategies on a series of unquestioned assumptions and untested relationships. Simulation exercises can improve strategy, build stronger relationships, and break down hierarchies.

Countervailing Powers | Community Organizing and Electoral Politics

Is Involvement in Elections a Source of Synergy—or Distraction?

Building the Front, Strengthening Our Movement

This March 9 live-streamed panel will feature movement leaders who are actively fighting the Right while building bases and alliances for the long-term struggle for racial and economic justice and inclusive democracy.

Nicholas Slayton

Countervailing Powers | How Los Angeles Tenants Beat the Landlords—For Now

The rise of a renters’ movement and its electoral victories last November have reshaped some fundamental city policies.

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The Great Escape: An Organizing Thriller

The Great Escape is oxygen for the organizer and fire for an organizing revival.

Countervailing Powers | The Tenants Who Went to Washington

The Homes Guarantee Campaign got the attention of policymakers at the highest levels. Now these tenant organizers want to get the policy.

Countervailing Powers | The Tenants Who Went to Washington

The Homes Guarantee Campaign got the attention of policymakers at the highest levels. Now these tenant organizers want to get the policy.

Countervailing Powers | Small Businesses Rise to Fight Wall Street

Small businesses are organizing around increased swipe fees. Their efforts could further an anti-monopoly revolution.

Countervailing Powers | Making Paid Sick Time a Reality

Organizing for paid leave, which is on the verge of passing in Minnesota, is part of a larger challenge to reverse an abusive workplace status quo.

Courtesy of the Working Families Party

Maurice Mitchell

Building Resilient Organizations

Toward Joy and Durable Power in a Time of Crisis

Jermaine Amado

Hollie Russon Gilman Lizbeth Lucero

Building Local Power

Sarah Johnson talks about the growing leadership of women and people of color across the country, her approach to organizing in suburban and rural areas, and why relationships are so important to building power.

Courtesy of Ravi Mangla

Laura Tanenbaum

“We have to tell larger stories”

New York Working Families Party communications director Ravi Mangla talks about his new novel, The Observant, and how he thinks about writing fiction and doing politics.

Courtesy of New America

Hollie Russon Gilman Lizbeth Lucero

Winning Paid Family Leave in Delaware

Liz Richards on how she planted the seeds for the Delaware family leave bill, formed a coalition from the ground up, and elevated people power along the way.

Courtesy of New America

Lizbeth Lucero Jessica Tang Grace Levin

Planting the Seeds for Movement Building

An interview with Georgia STAND-Up’s CEO, Deborah Scott

“The Bosses of the Senate” by Joseph Keppler

Dania Rajendra Scot Nakagawa

Countervailing Powers | From Countervailing to Prevailing Power

Progressives should plan our fights against anti-democratic oligarchies with the explicit aim of becoming the dominant political force.

Courtesy of Grassroots Collaborative

Lessons from Chicago Coalition Building

How to build a coalition with members who (mostly) don’t hate each other

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