Countervailing Power
Countervailing Power
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Building Bottom-Up Democracy Through Co-Governance
People’s movements are challenging oligarchic power and holding out a powerful vision of robust political and economic democracy to replace it, but our power so far remains marginal, and we are nowhere near ready to govern.
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Community Organizing and Electoral Politics
Is Involvement in Elections a Source of Synergy—or Distraction?
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How Los Angeles Tenants Beat the Landlords—For Now
The rise of a renters’ movement and its electoral victories last November have reshaped some fundamental city policies.
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The Tenants Who Went to Washington
The Homes Guarantee Campaign got the attention of policymakers at the highest levels. Now these tenant organizers want to get the policy.
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Small Businesses Rise to Fight Wall Street
Small businesses are organizing around increased swipe fees. Their efforts could further an anti-monopoly revolution.
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Making Paid Sick Time a Reality
Organizing for paid leave, which is on the verge of passing in Minnesota, is part of a larger challenge to reverse an abusive workplace status quo.
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“The Bosses of the Senate” by Joseph Keppler From Countervailing to Prevailing Power
Progressives should plan our fights against anti-democratic oligarchies with the explicit aim of becoming the dominant political force.
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Jandos Rothstein Using Policy to Reorganize Power
Even the best structural reforms will not succeed without aggressive organizing.
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President Carter signing the Community Reinvestment Act on Oct. 12, 1977. (Jimmy Carter Library/National Archives and Records Administration). Source: Federal Reserve The Reinvestment Movement vs. the Bankers
David is very nimble, but Goliath is more powerful than ever.
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Jandos Rothstein Laws That Create Countervailing Power
A roundtable discussion with Benjamin Sachs, Kate Andrias, and Steve Kest