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Organizing Strategy and Practice

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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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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Yannet Lathrop

The Fight For $15 | The Fight for $15: Past, Present, and Future

In the months and years ahead, the movement must continue pressing for a federal minimum wage increase for all workers — and for legislation that will make it easier to build fighting unions to empower workers in the long term.

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Keith Kelleher

The Fight For $15 | Fast Food Fight

The early fight to organize Detroit’s fast food workers

 

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Mat Hanson

The Fight For $15 | The Fight for $15

Unprecedented organizing has helped build worker power and raise wages for millions of workers over the past decade. What can we learn from the Fight for $15, and what is still left to be done?

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Brian Callaci

It’s Time for Labor to Embrace Antimonopoly

We need both movements if we are to democratize our economy and protect it from corporate power.

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Jennifer E. Cossyleon

Healing from Carceral Oppression

Given the legacy of women of color as the backbone for racial justice movements, it is no surprise they are leading the movement to abolish our carceral society and to collectively heal from centuries of oppression.

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Mike Gallagher

Best Action Ever

Or, the Hunter Gets Captured by the Game

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Amanda Lauren WalterKaren NussbaumEllen Cassedy

Organizing 9to5

A conversation with two leaders of the 9to5 movement

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Solana RiceAlicia Garza

The Purpose of Power

Solana Rice talks with Alicia Garza about how our movements build power, the role of social media in organizing, and why Black communities need their own spaces to get organized. 

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Ege YumusakTaylan Acar

An Uprising for a Democratic University in Turkey

Boğaziçi professor Taylan Acar talks about organizing for the resistance at the Turkish university — and what U.S. labor organizers can learn from their struggle. 

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Andrew Willis Garcés

Five Lessons From the Past Four Years

If campaign organizing is a series of peaks and valleys, 2021 has already brought many of us vertigo.

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Marybeth Seitz-Brown

The Left Needs to Engage Members if We Want to Win Big

Too often, leaders magnify the voices of a very small group of members, if they even cite members’ views. This reality reflects significant weaknesses in unions and their organizing practices, and illustrates how shallow and limited our understanding of democracy is. 

 

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Erin R. Pineda

To Build a New World

An excerpt of Seeing Like an Activist

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Jessica Barba Brown

Healing in the Post-Trump Era Is Necessary Work

The Trump years have had a deep impact on everyone’s mental health. What has it done to those of us who had the responsibility for stopping him?

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Abbie Illenberger

Fighting Austerity One Voter At a Time

Lessons from the fight to tax the rich in Illinois

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