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Call for Proposals: Youth Organizing Across the World

Call for Proposals: Highlighting Contemporary Youth Struggles for Human Rights, Justice, and Democracy Across the World

Debriefing the Resistance

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Cristina Jiménez Moreta

Debriefing the Resistance

We must be unapologetic about our vision for this country and inspire millions to dream with us about building a new story and a new country where all of us live with dignity and thrive. 

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Katey Lauer

Let’s Stop Chasing Joe Manchin

We’ve got to use our resources wisely, which means betting on deep, long-term, place-based organizing.

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Katelyn Johsnon

Imagining Liberation

The stories we’ll tell ourselves in the future

 

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Lena Eckert-ErdheimSarah Jaffe

Work Won’t Love Us Back

A conversation with Sarah Jaffe

Dave KamperGabriel Winant

The Center of the Economy Isn’t Industry, It’s Care...

Dave Kamper talks with Gabriel Winant about his new book, The Next Shift, and the organizing potential in care work. 

 

Kimberly Flores

Ask A Digital Organizer | How can I ethically use social media for my campaign?

How do organizers square our criticisms of Big Tech with our reliance on its platforms to build the movements we need to win?

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Mark EnglerPaul Engler

Can social movements realign America’s political...

In claiming the goal of "realignment," groups such as Sunrise and Justice Democrats are reviving an old idea, with hopes of provoking new political transformations.

 

 

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Mark EnglerPaul Engler

Can social movements realign America’s political...

In claiming the goal of "realignment," groups such as Sunrise and Justice Democrats are reviving an old idea, with hopes of provoking new political transformations.

 

 

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Drew AstolfiHeather Booth

“We Need Love at the Center”

Drew Astolfi talks with Heather Booth about her long career in organizing, how the movement has changed, and what’s giving her hope for the future.

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Mat HansonDavid Rolf

The Fight For $15 | “Power is the end game.” Lessons from the Fight for $...

David Rolf looks back on the last decade of organizing for a $15 minimum wage and wrestles with what it will take for the next labor upsurge to win. 

 

Damon Bowe

Nikki ColeMat Hanson

The Fight For $15 | Tipped Workers and the Fight for $15

Mat Hanson talks with Nikki Cole about why tipped workers must be a central part of the effort to raise the minimum wage.

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Diana Ramirez

The Fight For $15 | One Fair Wage Is the New Era of the Restaurant...

As cities and states start relaxing COVID restrictions and mask mandates, tipped workers have reported a substantial decline in tips, a disturbing increase in sexual harassment, and an overwhelming responsibility to protect public health. We can’t go back to the old normal.

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Adriana Rivera

The Fight For $15 | Give The People Something to Vote For

How the Florida Immigrant Coalition got out the vote to help win the Fight for $15.

 

Kofi Hunt Mat Hanson

The Fight For $15 | More Popular Than Trump and Biden. How $15 Won in...

Kofi Hunt talks about what it took to build a coalition that delivered real change for working families in Florida. 

 

Sammy CondeMat Hanson

The Fight For $15 | How Workers Won the Fight for $15 in Florida.

Starbucks worker and member organizer Sammy Conde spoke with Mat Hanson about their role in the successful Fight for $15 in Florida — and how they shifted gears to build power during the pandemic.

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Dave Kamper

The Amazon Loss & What We Owe Each Other in the...

Bessemer is the latest, highly-visible example of one of the American labor movement’s prime weaknesses: the lack of systems or mechanisms that allow information, strategy decisions, and lessons learned to be shared across the movement.  

Vanessa Tait

The Fight For $15 | A McJobs Economy

An excerpt from Poor Workers' Unions

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