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Three Co-Governance Lessons for Organizers
Elected champions need more than votes, they need organizers at their side, pushing, strategizing, and holding them accountable. That’s how you turn campaign promises into policy. On my first day as a council staffer, I walked into Oakland City Hall...
Right to a Roof: On Climate, Crises and Care
The Climate Movement Must Be A Movement Against Fascism
The era of “holding our lane” is over: we must now choose between building a single-issue movement or preserving the democracy necessary for any movement to survive. In America and around the world, fascism is on the rise. From...
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Tenant Power and Protections on the Frontlines of Climate Crisis
In California, disaster-triggered renter protections are a crucial victory that contributes to a just recovery for working-class people facing the climate crisis. Just north of the San Francisco Bay, dense urban centers give way to rolling oak woodland hills and...
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Using Participatory-Action Research to Explore New Campaign Strategies in Red-Trifecta Florida
In the face of a hostile legislature and stalled policies, Miami tenants have stopped asking politicians for help and started building their own power—by turning corporate landlords’ financial records into weapons. The housing crisis in Florida has only worsened...
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Frontline Communities Lead the Way on Housing and Climate Justice Panel
In this panel, housing organizers have identified our most vital source of resilience as climate disasters intensify: the trust between neighbors, which they are forging into a powerful force for collective survival and justice. Tony Samara: Welcome everyone. I’m...
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Razing Liberty Square with Valencia Gunder
This interview was conducted in Fall 2025 with Valencia Gunder of The Smile Trust, about Razing Liberty Square, a documentary about the Black community of Liberty City and how they’re resisting climate gentrification. Misk Noor: Thank you for sending...
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What We’ve Cultivated Still Remains: Black Home, Black Memory, and Collective Resilience in a Burning World
From the ashes of a California wildfire that consumed the Williams family’s home emerges a powerful truth: the same systemic forces that steal Black communities’ cultural harvest are being met with an unbreakable resilience, as neighbors build solidarity networks, reclaim...
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Lessons From Helene: An Organized Community is a Safe Community
When floodwaters consumed the only roads into their Appalachian town, the community’s survival hinged on a powerful asset they already possessed, the deep trust and organizing muscle built by a local group over years, proving that true disaster resilience is...
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Putting Housing on the High Road
This is a republish of part of a series of CCI substack posts and a policy brief exploring why the United States needs a Green Industrial Policy for Housing. The United States is in the midst of a decades-long housing crisis that has...
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Solidarity is the Solution
The same public subsidies that fund Memphis’s slumlords now bankroll Elon Musk’s pollution, revealing a single, profitable system that organizers are challenging by uniting the struggles for housing and environmental justice. In late 2022, residents at a HUD-subsidized complex...
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As Climate Collapse Inches Closer, The Tenant Union Is The Best Chance We’ve Got
The hallways of apartment buildings have become a new front in the climate fight, where tenant unions are battling for survival against the twin threats of negligent landlords and rising heat. Kansas City was hot and humid this summer,...
Because We Need Each Other
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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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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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.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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How the First Amendment of the Internet Underpins Modern Activist Movements
Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act has drawn the ire of Democrats for years—but without it, decentralized mass protest would be near-impossible. The US protest movements of 2025 will be characterized as broad efforts across cities and states to...
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What We’ve Cultivated Still Remains: Black Home, Black Memory, and Collective Resilience in a Burning World
From the ashes of a California wildfire that consumed the Williams family’s home emerges a powerful truth: the same systemic forces that steal Black communities’ cultural harvest are being met with an unbreakable resilience, as neighbors build solidarity networks, reclaim...
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As Climate Collapse Inches Closer, The Tenant Union Is The Best Chance We’ve Got
The hallways of apartment buildings have become a new front in the climate fight, where tenant unions are battling for survival against the twin threats of negligent landlords and rising heat. Kansas City was hot and humid this summer,...
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Solidarity is the Solution
The same public subsidies that fund Memphis’s slumlords now bankroll Elon Musk’s pollution, revealing a single, profitable system that organizers are challenging by uniting the struggles for housing and environmental justice. In late 2022, residents at a HUD-subsidized complex...
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Tenant Power and Protections on the Frontlines of Climate Crisis
In California, disaster-triggered renter protections are a crucial victory that contributes to a just recovery for working-class people facing the climate crisis. Just north of the San Francisco Bay, dense urban centers give way to rolling oak woodland hills and...
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Frontline Communities Lead the Way on Housing and Climate Justice Panel
In this panel, housing organizers have identified our most vital source of resilience as climate disasters intensify: the trust between neighbors, which they are forging into a powerful force for collective survival and justice. Tony Samara: Welcome everyone. I’m...
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Frontline Communities Lead the Way on Housing and Climate Justice Panel
In this panel, housing organizers have identified our most vital source of resilience as climate disasters intensify: the trust between neighbors, which they are forging into a powerful force for collective survival and justice. Tony Samara: Welcome everyone. I’m...
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Razing Liberty Square with Valencia Gunder
This interview was conducted in Fall 2025 with Valencia Gunder of The Smile Trust, about Razing Liberty Square, a documentary about the Black community of Liberty City and how they’re resisting climate gentrification. Misk Noor: Thank you for sending...
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Putting Housing on the High Road
This is a republish of part of a series of CCI substack posts and a policy brief exploring why the United States needs a Green Industrial Policy for Housing. The United States is in the midst of a decades-long housing crisis that has...
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Using Participatory-Action Research to Explore New Campaign Strategies in Red-Trifecta Florida
In the face of a hostile legislature and stalled policies, Miami tenants have stopped asking politicians for help and started building their own power—by turning corporate landlords’ financial records into weapons. The housing crisis in Florida has only worsened...
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The Climate Movement Must Be A Movement Against Fascism
The era of “holding our lane” is over: we must now choose between building a single-issue movement or preserving the democracy necessary for any movement to survive. In America and around the world, fascism is on the rise. From...
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Lessons From Helene: An Organized Community is a Safe Community
When floodwaters consumed the only roads into their Appalachian town, the community’s survival hinged on a powerful asset they already possessed, the deep trust and organizing muscle built by a local group over years, proving that true disaster resilience is...
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Photo cred: Naftali Ehrenkranz Two Years After October 7th, Where is Our Movement Headed?
The Jewish community is at a crossroads when it comes to Israel’s genocide. As organizers, it’s our job to bring them along. As the tenuous ceasefire in Israel and Gaza goes into effect, I am brought back to October 7th,...
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Labor Activist Chris Smalls On Solidarity with Gaza
On July 26, Israeli occupation forces intercepted the Handala, the latest Gaza Freedom Flotilla ship sailing to break the illegal siege of Gaza amid mass starvation. A United Nations-backed organization has just issued an urgent report warning of a “worst-case scenario of famine” in...
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The Revolution Will Not Be Incorporated: Movement Infrastructure vs Nonprofit Industrial Complex
If the success of Left movements relies on nonprofit organizations, we must be honest about the industry’s reproduction of capitalism and state violence. Revolution is the only way. It’s a precious occasion when your most cherished political values merge with...
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Philanthropy and Repression: Not the Exception—The System
“To confront repression and depoliticization head-on, philanthropy must commit to deeply understanding and supporting the interconnected nature of global struggles.” We are living through a compounding, interconnected catastrophe—one long sounded by Palestinian, Sudanese, Haitian, and countless Global Majority communities. Today’s...
