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Organizing Strategy and Practice

The Future of the Labor Movement

Joshua Cotton

Andrea Dehlendorf

The Future of the Labor Movement

We need the labor movement to win the world we want. It’s up to all of us to remake it.

 

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Rick Perlstein

Hot Off the Press | Christian Soldiers

An excerpt from Reaganland. 

Adrastos Da Silva

"Cori is the right candidate for exactly the...

The lead organizer on the Cori Bush campaign talks about how the campaign coped with COVID, what they did to challenge voter suppression, and what Bush’s victory means for progressive politics in Missouri and beyond.

Jake GrumbachDave Kamper

The Research of Organizing | Unions and Race: “I don't think we have time to...

Jake Grumbach on the effects of unions on white racial politics

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Barbara Helmick

From Fringe to Winnable: The Campaign for DC Statehood

Long considered a long-shot local issue, DC statehood is now a winnable campaign.  Barbara Helmick tells the story of how changing the narrative allowed organizers to build the coalition they need to win. 

Madeline Talbott

The Origins of Fight for 15 in Chicago

This is the story of the workers and organizers in Chicago — most of them women — whose efforts to build an organization of downtown workers helped to spark the national and global Fight for 15 movement. 

Clay Banks

Rithika RamamurthyMie Inouye

Reclaiming Rhode Island in a Movement Moment

Bernie volunteers in Rhode Island are turning their presidential campaign operation into a statewide leftist organization. In the process, they’re learning to connect their socialist principles to the demand to Defund the Police.

Jonah Furman

Bringing Bernie 2020 Organizing Tools to the Workplace

The Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee, a project born out of a partnership between the United Electrical Workers (UE) and the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), is taking the lessons learned from the Bernie 2020 campaign into workplace organizing.

 

Dave Kamper

We Don't Know What We're Doing

Two new books on how to strengthen the labor movement end up showing something very different — that we don’t know why or how unions succeed or fail, and we don’t have any clear sense of how to do better.

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Ilyse Hogue

How Phyllis Schlafly Found The Right Balance of Racism...

An excerpt from The Lie That Binds, a new political history of how the radical right used abortion to gain power and hijak the Republican Party. 

Jeff OrdowerTory Russell

Organizer Voices | Lessons from the Ferguson Uprisings

Two veterans of the Ferguson uprisings talk about the promises and challenges of Ferguson, what it takes to sustain momentum in the streets, and what organizers today can learn from Ferguson.

Pete SikoraPatrick Houston

Lessons from NYC’s Pipeline Battle

How a multi-racial coalition defeated big oil and gas companies to block the Williams Pipeline.

Ray Brescia

Hot Off the Press | Our Social Innovation Moment

Ray Brescia on what organizers can learn from past social movements about how to effectively harness new technologies to grow the movement and make lasting change.

Nelson Soza

Homeless Communities’ Land Takeovers Poke Holes in...

Sometimes a curse can be a blessing, until it becomes a curse again.

Mapping Our Movement to Go on Offense: An Interactive...

The Bargaining for the Common Good (BCG) network is undertaking a new project to support activists nationwide. We are collecting and mapping as many union contract expirations as we can across the U.S. to create a powerful tool for our collective work.

Jordan Palmer

A Brief History of the UNITE HERE Local 11 Remote...

UCLA Law students partnered with UNITE HERE Local 11 to establish and run a mutual aid network with over 200 volunteers providing unemployment insurance assistance to thousands of union members. Here’s how they did it and what lessons they learned. 

Nithya RamanMeghan Choi

Organizing in the Age of Coronavirus | Building Neighborhood Power

 L.A. City Council candidate Nithya Raman and her co-campaign manager, Meghan Choi, talk about using community organizing tactics not just to win an election but to build “resilient neighborhoods” and a people-powered government.

 
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