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Messaging Guidance on COVID-19

Anat Shenker-Osorio

This guide is adapted from messaging developed with the Million Voters Project, a coalition of organizing networks in California. It draws upon previous messaging guidance from Nicole Carty and Anthony Torres.

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Michael Podhorzer

Organizing in the Age of Coronavirus | Coronavirus and its Political Offspring

Veteran political strategist Mike Podhorzer brings his analytical rigor to COVID-19 and raises important questions about the political implications.

 

Sudip Bhattacharya

Race, Class and Coalitions

Sudip Bhattacharya digs into real-world organizing and left political theory to examine the politics of race, class and coalition building.

 
Larry Kleinman

Organizing in the Age of Coronavirus | Moving Through Contagion Fear, Preparing for Recovery

Note:  This essay builds on a March 7, 2020 essay by Larry Kleinman entitled Organizing in a Time of Approaching Pandemic:  Campaigns and Contingency Planning Amid the Effects and Fears of Coronavirus” [1]
 
Gabriel ZucmanEmmanuel Saez

Organizing in the Age of Coronavirus | Keeping Business Alive: The Government as Buyer of...

The coronavirus threatens the world’s economic life. Social distancing measures, essential to fight the epidemic, are sharply reducing demand in sectors such as transportation, restaurants, hotels, and entertainment.

Larry Kleinman

Organizing in the Age of Coronavirus | Organizando en medio de una pandemia inminente:...

Un organizador veterano nos ayuda a considerar las preguntas que surgen con respecto a organizar mientras la crisis del coronavirus sigue creciendo cada dia.

Larry Kleinman

Organizing in the Age of Coronavirus | Organizing in a Time of Approaching Pandemic:...

A veteran organizer helps us to think through organizing questions as the coronavirus crisis grows by the day.

The Kavanaugh Nomination: A Retrospective

Montage of author photos

Ana María Archila

Kavanaugh One Year Later

What we didn’t know when we started was that this fight would become a sort of reckoning about sexual violence and how power flows along gender lines in our society.

Kavanaugh Protest

Kelley Robinson

How We Fought, Lost, and Learned

What I bore witness to was not merely an announcement about a congressional process. It was seeing people’s faith in our democracy and our world shift.

Jennifer Flynn Walker

Cancel Kavanaugh Campaign

I’ve said that the reason that we lost is that we didn’t have the votes and that we ran out of power, but we also lost because we have electeds who are cowards. It’s not their fault, it’s ours, but our the Democrats could not even hold their entire caucus.

Woman with megaphone

Shaunna Thomas

The Kavanaugh Reckoning Is Only Just Beginning

One year ago this week, after a shameful process, the Senate confirmed Brett Kavanaugh.

First We March, Then We Run

Fatima Goss Graves

How A Devastating Loss Sparked An Even Greater Movement

It’s been a year since the Senate confirmed Judge Brett Kavanaugh to a lifetime position on the Supreme Court.

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Larry Kleinman

Organizing in the Age of Coronavirus | Organizing in a Time of Approaching Pandemic:...

A veteran organizer helps us to think through organizing questions as the coronavirus crisis grows by the day.

Jasmine GripperRosemary RiveraJess WisneskiRavi ManglaCharles KhanMichael Kink

Organizer Voices | Building the Movement for Tax Justice

The new book by Gabriel Zucman and Emmanuel Saez, The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay has just come out, and it makes a few things really clear.

Cesar Chavez
Cesar Chavez

From the Archives | An Organizer’s Tale

We inaugurate the From the Archives series with a classic from Cesar Chavez.

Liz KantorAaron EisenbergNafis Hasan

Organizer Voices | Energy Democracy Campaigns: Building the Green New...

The climate crisis and the fight for a Green New Deal has opened up a new conversation about energy democracy.  Three DSA organizers from different states examine the growing movement for public power in comparison and context.

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