Recent Articles
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Justice for All: Road-Tested Strategies for Building a Bigger Movement
Three members of the Just Economy Institute share their insights on how to weave multiple worlds together to accelerate change. This article is republished from Common Dreams. Most activists sense the dense web of connections linking social, economic and climate...
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Featured illustration for Convergence by Kimmie Dearest Because We Need Each Other Pt.4: Interventions & Healing
In this four-part series, we are exploring the phenomenon known as “cancel culture.” We hope to invite more people into conversations about how we work through tension and conflict in our movements, and to offer viable pathways for recognition, prevention,...
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Featured illustration for Convergence by Kimmie Dearest Because We Need Each Other Pt.3: The Early Warning Signs of Cancel Culture
In this four-part series, we are exploring the phenomenon known as “cancel culture.” We hope to invite more people into conversations about how we work through tension and conflict in our movements, and to offer viable pathways for recognition, prevention,...
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Featured illustration for Convergence by Kimmie Dearest Because We Need Each Other Pt.2: Understanding Cancel Culture
In this four-part series, we are exploring the phenomenon known as “cancel culture” in collaboration with Convergence Magazine. We hope to invite more people into conversations about how we work through tension and conflict in our movements, and to offer...
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Popular Democracy Post-Election Debrief
Following the 2024 Election, Popular Democracy convened Executive Directors and senior staff of the grassroots power building organizations that make up its network. The meeting took place before President Trump was inaugurated and included a panel of organizational leaders reflecting...
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Because We Need Each Other, Part I: Origin Story
Exploring the phenomenon known as “cancel culture” as a collaboration with Convergence Magazine In this four-part series, we are exploring the phenomenon known as “cancel culture.” We hope to invite more people into conversations about how we work through tension...
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Fortifying the Frontlines: How to Protect Social Movements Under Attack
Executive Director of the Building Movement Project, Janis Rosheuvel unpacks how to bolster the frontlines of movement work for the fight ahead The burning of the main office building at The Highlander Center, an historic movement training venue; the violent...
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Emancipation Over Extinction
Somatic coach and organizer, Aaron Jamal, provides a timely reminder to fight for emancipation in ongoing times of extreme oppression. Apocalyptic hurricanes in my home state of North Carolina and cataclysmic firestorms on the other side of the country have...
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Plan 2028: Bringing Labor and Social Movements Together
Plan 2028 isn’t just another general strike call—it’s a strategic, long-term push to unite labor and social movements in a coordinated fight against rising authoritarianism. The Trump Administration has come in with brute force, attacking working people and institutions from...
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Building Community, Building Power: Lessons from Indigenous Women in Colombia
Peralta, a former Political Director at SEIU sits down with Mayor of Jambaló, Emilse Paz Labio about her decades long work towards women’s rights and environmental justice. How does one build resilience and power in the face of the daily...
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Reflecting on COVID, Year 5
Vee Copeland, a disabled organizer and former policy analyst details their experience facing the lack of care in movement strategy around surviving the current administration It has been a treacherous five years since the COVID pandemic began. According to the...
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Collective Breathing: Post-Election Grief, Organizing, and Surviving with a Disability
Copeland, a disabled organizer and former policy analyst details their experience facing the lack of care in movement strategy around surviving the current administration Trump won the presidential election. And since last November, I have been engaging in meditations and...
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Fear is How We Got Here: On the Zionist Grip on the American Jewish Psyche
Poet & Writer, Tamar Ashdot, parses through their family legacy to unpack to the legacy of fear that has led American Jewish communities to stay loyal to Zionism while others have rejected it. In early 2024, two major magazines, The...
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Justice Begins at Home: How Collective Governance Builds Movements That Can Withstand Anything
Executive Director of Bala Rising, Niloufar Khansari, brings their years of movement lawyer experience to unpack how we can bring collective governance into our daily lives. One evening in mid-2017, a client of mine called in tears: “ICE followed my...
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The Price of ‘Green Zionism’: Climate Justice and the Colonization of Palestine
A deep dive into the long-standing history of Green Zionism that is plaguing Palestine A Lancet study reported that the actual estimated death toll in Gaza exceeds 180,000+ Palestinians, citing 96% of Palestinians in Gaza facing famine and thousands missing...
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Learning and Researching our Movement History
Maggie Corser and writer Derek Seidman delve into the power of movement research and its ongoing impact on campaign strategy throughout movement history We’re living through an intensification of crises around inequality, democracy, climate, and militarism. There is a lot...
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credit: Hungarian Prime Minister's Office I’m a Veteran Organizer From Hungary. Here Are My Lessons for the Trump Era.
Facing autocracy demands more than resistance—it requires us to understand the failures that brought it to power and to organize for a democracy that delivers for everyone.
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Why Women With Incarcerated Loved Ones Are Canvassing
For four weeks leading up to the Spring 2024 primary elections, Carla was a lead canvasser who knocked door after door, after door, asking Los Angeles residents one thing: do you support closing Men’s Central Jail—a notoriously inhumane and deadly...
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From Police Reform to Abolition: What We’ve Learned in the Last Five Years
Executive Director of the African American Roundtable in Milwaukee unpacks their journey from local reform work to a national focus on the prison abolition movement. In April 2014, I witnessed firsthand the ways that white fear, hate and systemic power...
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Palestine is at the Heart of the Fight Against Trump’s Fascism
In a final essay, Forge contributing editors reflect on how Palestine is the issue most critical to defeating Fascism in the upcoming administration Author Ta-Nehisi Coates has shown remarkable humility, vulnerability, and courage in recounting the evolution of his views...