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Because We Need Each Other Pt.4: Interventions & Healing
In this four-part series, we are exploring the phenomenon known as “cancel culture.” We hope to invite more people into conversations about how we work through tension and conflict in our movements, and to offer viable pathways for recognition, prevention,...
Left Out: The Missing Election Narratives
Welcome to the Margins
This article is a part of Left Out: The Missing Election narratives, a collection of unreported histories by publications inside of the Movement Media Alliance. In the spirit of collaboration that these times demand, In These Times, The Forge, Convergence and The...
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Solidarity Is Not a Transaction
Clarissa Brooks, Editor In Chief at The Forge unpacks the phenomenon of solidarity being misunderstood and corrects the record on the origins of the purpose of global solidarity efforts for marginalized people. This article is a part of Left Out: The...
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Young People and The Fight Against Fascism
Anthony Vidal Torres, Communications Director at Get Free explains why young generations are still the key to reshaping our country for the better. This article is a part of Left Out: The Missing Election narratives, a collection of unreported histories by publications...
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COVID, Palestine, Election 2024, and the Cult of Democratic Moderation
Vinay Krishnan, National Field Organizer at Popular Democracy unpacks the long standing pandemic denialism and lackluster moderation of the COVI-19 pandemic that still plagues in the current moment. This article is a part of Left Out: The Missing Election narratives, a collection...
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A Call for Unity in Unlikely Places
Lead strategists at Working Families Party and The Uncommitted Movement join together to discuss the shared values that led them to push the Democratic party further left. This article is a part of Left Out: The Missing Election narratives, a collection of...
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How Abortion Won in Arizona
Maria Esch, researcher for the Alternative Unionism Project at the Center for Work and Democracy dives deep into the local efforts to pass Proposition 139 in Arizona during the 2024 election. This article is a part of Left Out: The Missing...
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Gen Z Is Done with Dems’ Bullshit
Delaney Vandergrift, social impact strategist at Southern Vision Alliance details the failings of the Democratic Party and it’s failure to show up for young people. This article is a part of Left Out: The Missing Election narratives, a collection of unreported histories...
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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Getty Images How (Not) to Dismantle White Supremacy
Is the fixation on naming "white supremacy culture" overtaking the fight against white supremacy?
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Never Again Action 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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Getty Images 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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Courtesy of the Working Families Party Building Resilient Organizations
Toward Joy and Durable Power in a Time of Crisis
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Justice for All: Road-Tested Strategies for Building a Bigger Movement
Three members of the Just Economy Institute share their insights on how to weave multiple worlds together to accelerate change. This article is republished from Common Dreams. Most activists sense the dense web of connections linking social, economic and climate...
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Featured illustration for Convergence by Kimmie Dearest Because We Need Each Other Pt.3: The Early Warning Signs of Cancel Culture
In this four-part series, we are exploring the phenomenon known as “cancel culture.” We hope to invite more people into conversations about how we work through tension and conflict in our movements, and to offer viable pathways for recognition, prevention,...
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Featured illustration for Convergence by Kimmie Dearest Because We Need Each Other Pt.2: Understanding Cancel Culture
In this four-part series, we are exploring the phenomenon known as “cancel culture” in collaboration with Convergence Magazine. We hope to invite more people into conversations about how we work through tension and conflict in our movements, and to offer...
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Popular Democracy Post-Election Debrief
Following the 2024 Election, Popular Democracy convened Executive Directors and senior staff of the grassroots power building organizations that make up its network. The meeting took place before President Trump was inaugurated and included a panel of organizational leaders reflecting...
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Because We Need Each Other, Part I: Origin Story
Exploring the phenomenon known as “cancel culture” as a collaboration with Convergence Magazine In this four-part series, we are exploring the phenomenon known as “cancel culture.” We hope to invite more people into conversations about how we work through tension...
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Fortifying the Frontlines: How to Protect Social Movements Under Attack
Executive Director of the Building Movement Project, Janis Rosheuvel unpacks how to bolster the frontlines of movement work for the fight ahead The burning of the main office building at The Highlander Center, an historic movement training venue; the violent...
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Fortifying the Frontlines: How to Protect Social Movements Under Attack
Executive Director of the Building Movement Project, Janis Rosheuvel unpacks how to bolster the frontlines of movement work for the fight ahead The burning of the main office building at The Highlander Center, an historic movement training venue; the violent...
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Emancipation Over Extinction
Somatic coach and organizer, Aaron Jamal, provides a timely reminder to fight for emancipation in ongoing times of extreme oppression. Apocalyptic hurricanes in my home state of North Carolina and cataclysmic firestorms on the other side of the country have...
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Plan 2028: Bringing Labor and Social Movements Together
Plan 2028 isn’t just another general strike call—it’s a strategic, long-term push to unite labor and social movements in a coordinated fight against rising authoritarianism. The Trump Administration has come in with brute force, attacking working people and institutions from...
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Building Community, Building Power: Lessons from Indigenous Women in Colombia
Peralta, a former Political Director at SEIU sits down with Mayor of Jambaló, Emilse Paz Labio about her decades long work towards women’s rights and environmental justice. How does one build resilience and power in the face of the daily...
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Reflecting on COVID, Year 5
Vee Copeland, a disabled organizer and former policy analyst details their experience facing the lack of care in movement strategy around surviving the current administration It has been a treacherous five years since the COVID pandemic began. According to the...
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Collective Breathing: Post-Election Grief, Organizing, and Surviving with a Disability
Copeland, a disabled organizer and former policy analyst details their experience facing the lack of care in movement strategy around surviving the current administration Trump won the presidential election. And since last November, I have been engaging in meditations and...
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Fear is How We Got Here: On the Zionist Grip on the American Jewish Psyche
Poet & Writer, Tamar Ashdot, parses through their family legacy to unpack to the legacy of fear that has led American Jewish communities to stay loyal to Zionism while others have rejected it. In early 2024, two major magazines, The...
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Justice Begins at Home: How Collective Governance Builds Movements That Can Withstand Anything
Executive Director of Bala Rising, Niloufar Khansari, brings their years of movement lawyer experience to unpack how we can bring collective governance into our daily lives. One evening in mid-2017, a client of mine called in tears: “ICE followed my...
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The Price of ‘Green Zionism’: Climate Justice and the Colonization of Palestine
A deep dive into the long-standing history of Green Zionism that is plaguing Palestine A Lancet study reported that the actual estimated death toll in Gaza exceeds 180,000+ Palestinians, citing 96% of Palestinians in Gaza facing famine and thousands missing...
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Learning and Researching our Movement History
Maggie Corser and writer Derek Seidman delve into the power of movement research and its ongoing impact on campaign strategy throughout movement history We’re living through an intensification of crises around inequality, democracy, climate, and militarism. There is a lot...
