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Maurice Mitchell

Toward Joy and Durable Power in a Time of Crisis

Election Reflections: 2022

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Daniel Altschuler Maegan Llerena  Leo Murrieta

View from the Grassroots: Make the Road Action

We asked grassroots organizers from across the country what they learned during the 2022 elections. Here's what Make the Road Action's (MRA) co-Executive Director and its Pennsylvania and Nevada directors learned. 

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Katey Lauer

View from the Grassroots: WV Can't Wait

We asked grassroots organizers from across the country what they learned during the 2022 elections. Here's what Katey Lauer from WV Can't Wait learned. 

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Brendan Walsh

View from the Grassroots: Worker Power

We asked grassroots organizers from across the country what they learned during the 2022 elections. Here's what Brendan Walsh from Worker Power in Arizona learned. 

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Jay Malone

View from the Grassroots: Texas Gulf Coast Area Labor Federation

We asked grassroots organizers from across the country what they learned during the 2022 elections. Here's what Jay Malone from the Texas Gulf Coast Area Labor Federation learned. 

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Christine Neumann-Ortiz

View from the Grassroots: Voces de la Frontera Action

We asked grassroots organizers from across the country what they learned during the 2022 elections. Here's what Christine Neumann-Ortiz from Voces de la Frontera Action learned.

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The Craft of Campaigns

Courtesy of Training for Change

Andrew Willis Garcés Cicia Lee

Keeping a Hard No

Campaign lessons from the battle to stop Amazon’s HQ2 in Queens

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What's Your Power Analysis?

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Deepak Pateriya

What’s Your Power Analysis?

In this 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.

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Jermaine Amado

Hollie Russon GilmanLizbeth Lucero

Building Local Power

Sarah Johnson talks about the growing leadership of women and people of color across the country, her approach to organizing in suburban and rural areas, and why relationships are so important to building power.

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Laura Tanenbaum

“We have to tell larger stories”

New York Working Families Party communications director Ravi Mangla talks about his new novel, The Observant, and how he thinks about writing fiction and doing politics. 

Courtesy of New America

Hollie Russon GilmanLizbeth Lucero

Winning Paid Family Leave in Delaware

Liz Richards on how she planted the seeds for the Delaware family leave bill, formed a coalition from the ground up, and elevated people power along the way.

Courtesy of New America

Lizbeth LuceroJessica Tang Grace Levin

Planting the Seeds for Movement Building

An interview with Georgia STAND-Up’s CEO, Deborah Scott

“The Bosses of the Senate” by Joseph Keppler

Dania RajendraScot Nakagawa

Countervailing Powers | From Countervailing to Prevailing Power

Progressives should plan our fights against anti-democratic oligarchies with the explicit aim of becoming the dominant political force.

Courtesy of Grassroots Collaborative

Amisha Patel

Lessons from Chicago Coalition Building

How to build a coalition with members who (mostly) don’t hate each other

 

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Amisha Patel

Lessons from Chicago Coalition Building

How to build a coalition with members who (mostly) don’t hate each other

 

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Solana RiceJeremie Greer

Racism Is Profitable | Battling on the Issues

Pablo Rodriguez of Communities for a New California talks with Solana Rice and Jeremie Greer about electoral organizing.

Vidar Nordil Mathisen

Mark EnglerPaul Engler

What's the problem with taking state power?

As social movements move beyond the default anarchist sensibility that prevailed through Occupy, they must still reckon with hard questions about bureaucracy and cooptation. 

Courtesy of New America

Hollie Russon GilmanLizbeth Lucero

Widening Political Participation in Lexington, Kentucky

An interview with Richard Young of CivicLex

Hot Off the Press | That’s Not One We Expected

An excerpt from How We Win The Civil War.

Jandos Rothstein

Lauren JacobsGeorge Goehl

Countervailing Powers | Using Policy to Reorganize Power

Even the best structural reforms will not succeed without aggressive organizing.

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Jeff Ordower

Rupture | ACT UP Was a Vanguard Organization

Sarah Schulman talks about the impetus for ACT UP, the group's structure and strategies, and lessons for organizers today. 

Spark & Bellow: A Creative Writing Workshop for...

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Daniel Judt

Building Worker Power

Unions are among the few institutions where people learn to practice genuine, robust democracy. Building worker power means strengthening those democratic practices within the labor movement — and then bringing them out into the country.

President Carter signing the Community Reinvestment Act on Oct. 12, 1977. (Jimmy Carter Library/National Archives and Records Administration). Source: Federal Reserve

Robert Kuttner

Countervailing Powers | The Reinvestment Movement vs. the Bankers

David is very nimble, but Goliath is more powerful than ever.

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