Cesar Chavez’s sexual assaults were horrific. Sexism in organizing persists and requires the attention of leaders. I’ll present stories and analysis of this sexism from nearly 200 organizers we spoke...
As the Founding Director of The Women’s Organizing Network, Dahlia Goldenberg merged a decade of experience with a global network of grassroots women’s organizations and her experience as a local...
Part 2 of The Drivers Cooperative Series. The three installments of this series follow the first five years experience of The Drivers Cooperative. In every sector of the capitalist economy,...
Part 3: Invisible Power, Exploited Disinformation: The Architecture of Manufactured Consent, we explore this psychological terrain. We examine how the architects of the 1898 coup employed media syndicates, fabricated crises,...
Two funder organizers share four action steps—drawn from Funders4Palestine’s new Raise the Bar tool—that philanthropy can take to strengthen their commitment to social movements and move away from practices that...
Andrea Lynch is an independent consultant and facilitator for social justice organizations and grantmakers, a steering committee member of Funders 4 Palestine, and an advisory council member of In Our...
Farhad Ebrahimi (he/him) is a Philanthropic Transformation Strategist with the Solidaire Network, bringing well over a decade of experience as an organizer, trainer, and strategist in the philanthropic sector. Prior to...
How did the architects of Wilmington’s coup moved seamlessly from physical to structural violence? Their use of hidden power exposes how modern institutional frameworks like Project 2025 echo historical legal...
A Conversation About Blackness and Criminalization with Black Alliance for Just Immigration The politics of divide and conquer are as present as ever, and so how do we gather all...
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...
The three installments of this series follow the first five years experience of The Drivers Cooperative. They will draw out insights that can be applied by other activists in our...
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...