Inside the Organizers Corner | What is Power?

Join us Inside the Organizers’ Corner, a new video series in which we bring together organizers from different parts of the movement to talk about organizing strategy and practice. 

In this segment, Ben Chin (Maine People’s Alliance) talks with Nelini Stamp (Working Families Party), James Haslam (Rights & Democracy), Arleen Vargas (OneAmerica), and Kendall Mackey (350) about how their understanding of power has changed since they started organizing and what shifted their perspective.

Join the conversation. How has your understanding of power changed since you started organizing? Why did your perspective change, and what effect has this had on your organizing? Send a video or written response to lzafir@forgeorganizing.org. 

Watch the rest of Inside the Organizers’ Corner. Click here for a discussion of the influx of upwardly-mobile, white activists during the Trump years and click here for a conversation about how to keep bottom-up democracy strong as the movement grows.

About Ben Chin

Ben Chin is the Deputy Director of Maine People’s Alliance, where he has worked on community organizing campaigns for the last fifteen years. He helped build the teams that have won wage increases for one out of three Maine workers, the first Medicaid expansion through ballot, and the nation’s first...