A Conversation About Blackness and Criminalization with Black Alliance for Just Immigration Miski Noor: Nana, I want to start with the fact that your organizing experience is both deep and...
Nana Gyamfi is the Executive Director of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration [BAJI], and she received her undergraduate degree from Cornell University, and her Juris Doctorate from UCLA School...
Erik Forman is a labor organizer, serial social entrepreneur, and affordable housing policy and finance professional. During the pandemic, he pioneered the use of worker-owned high-growth tech-enabled startups as tools...
We examine how the 1898 Wilmington coup exposed the fatal illusion that electoral victories alone can secure lasting power when the ruling class retains control over violence, wealth, and the...
Rachel Branaman (she/her) is a civil rights advocate, movement builder, and author of Rooted Together: Democratizing Power for the Collective Good. As Principal Consultant of Talem Consulting, she advises global...
How a worker-led coalition won Philadelphia’s POWER Act (the Protect Our Workers, Enforce Rights Act), and how they’re fighting to make it real. A few years ago, one of our...
Nicole Kligerman is a fifth generation Philadelphian who has been an immigration and labor organizer in her city since 2010. She’s the founding director of the PA Chapter of the...
In this conversation, Claire Maracle, Executive Director of Words of the People, and Baratunde Thurston, storyteller and author of How to Be Black, excavate the origins of American democracy to...
All social movements need infrastructure capable of sustaining across multi-generational fights. But how do we build this infrastructure and ensure that we lower the cost of onboarding new people into...
Wealth redistribution, as a relational practice rooted in accountability, has the potential to spiritually transform a person, as shared here by redistribution organizers Brittany Koteles and Morgan Curtis. Koteles, Executive...
We are living in fascist times, which means we must remember history to help us understand the possibilities of our futures. Do we want to subjugate ourselves to the tyranny...
In a country where land has historically been central to wealth and power-building, we must carefully consider how we want to work together towards land reclamation. Kailea Loften in conversation...
The abolitionist movement transformed America from a slaveholders’ republic into a multiracial democracy in just decades, proving that organized people are the engine of real change. As America turns 250,...
If we’re going to work to bring diverse groups of people into conversation and ultimately solidarity, we will need an updated politics of togetherness capable of bringing nuance to intersectionality....
Trevor Smith in conversation with Anne Price and Jhumpa Bhattacharya of The Maven Collaborative. The racial wealth gap is not a product of individual behavior but of policy design. Because...
The American Dream was built on stolen land and enslaved labor, so true freedom means rejecting it and building a Liberation Economy rooted in repair and abundance. You and I...
The family policing system and the colonial legacy of the pass system, boarding schools, slave patrols, and immigration policies. Indigenous, Black, and other communities of color across North America know...
Jawanza James Williams is a Black, radical Queer, Prison Abolitionist, Socialist, Feminist, Christian engaged in social critique. Williams is originally from Beaumont, Texas, and received a BA in English from...
Judith Le Blanc is a citizen of the Caddo Nation. She is the Executive Director of Native Organizers Alliance (NOA), which leads a national Native training and organizing network that...
Jhumpa Bhattacharya is the Co-President and Co-Founder of The Maven Collaborative. She directly leads work identifying policy and narrative solutions to racial and gender income and wealth inequities and mitigating...