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Deepak Pateriya

An Interview with Andrea Cristina Mercado and Ivanna Gonzalez of Florida Rising  

Organizing Megacorporations: Building a Movement for the 21st Century

BP Miller

Dania Rajendra

Organizing Megacorporations: Building a Movement for the 21st Century

The question of how to organize megacorporations is urgent for everyone who works for justice.

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Jeff Ordower

Rupture | When Four Students Sat In

Small actions with big plans can sometimes scale quickly

 

Melanie Brazzell

Building Structure Shapes | Florida’s “Fractal” Shaped Alignment Group

In this article, we’ll look more closely at one shape — the fractal — through a case study of several progressive organizations in Florida that formed the StateWide Alignment Group (SWAG)

 

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Paul Engler

Political Polarization Is Pushing Evangelicals To A...

Christians are splitting with the religious right over Trump, COVID and Black Lives Matter, creating opportunities for those interested in social justice

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George Goehl

Letter to a Young Organizer #2

You are here to stir the pot. To take the crisis to those who created it. To transform hearts and minds on the way toward transforming how the whole thing works.

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Ben Chin

What does “grassroots” mean?

A review of Power Concedes Nothing

Jandos Rothstein

Robert Kuttner

Countervailing Powers | Laws That Create Countervailing Power

A roundtable discussion with Benjamin Sachs, Kate Andrias, and Steve Kest

Jandos Rothstein

Robert Kuttner

Countervailing Powers | Laws That Create Countervailing Power

A roundtable discussion with Benjamin Sachs, Kate Andrias, and Steve Kest

Mat Hanson

“Nobody's coming to save any of us”: Lessons from...

What grassroots organizing efforts in West Virginia can teach us about how to break free of extractive models of organizing and build real power that can lead to transformative change.

Fall Organizers Writing Workshop

Applications are open for our fall writing workshop!

Dania Rajendra

On the Line: An Interview with Daisy Pitkin

The organizer and author Daisy Pitkin talks about the dynamics between staff organizers and members, personal and political risk-taking, institutional culture, and political struggle across a century of union fights in the US.

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Jeff Ordower

The Case for Rupture

We cannot dismantle systems of racial monopoly capitalism merely through electoral power or base building alone. We need mass scaled action.

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Deepak Pateriya

What's Your Power Analysis | What’s Your Power Analysis?

In this new series, veteran organizer Deepak Pateriya talks with organizers and movement leaders about the power analysis that guides their work, the power they’re trying to build and exercise, how it’s going, and how they know.

Deepak Pateriya

What's Your Power Analysis | An Interview with Doran Schrantz

This is the first piece in a new Forge series — What’s Your Power Analysis? — in which veteran organizer Deepak Pateriya talks with organizers and movement leaders about the power analysis that guides their work, the power they’re trying to build and exercise, how it’s going,...

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Azza Altiraifi Kendra Bozarth

Practice, Practice, Practice

To build stronger movements, we need to build up our ambition, be strategic in our discipline, and lead with the process. 

 

Melanie Brazzell

Building Structure Shapes | Building Structure Shapes: ISAIAH’s Multiracial “House”

Executive Director Doran Schrantz went against the advice of non-profit manuals and decided to restructure the staff. How did she reimagine the organizational chart, thus enabling ISAIAH’s house to grow?

Deepak BhargavaHarry Hanbury

Renewing the Lineage of Nonviolent Movement

A Review of Erica Chenoweth’s Civil Resistance: What Everyone Needs to Know

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