Why Women With Incarcerated Loved Ones Are Canvassing
For four weeks leading up to the Spring 2024 primary elections, Carla was a lead canvasser who knocked door after door, after door, asking Los Angeles residents one thing: do...
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Ellie Virrueta Ortiz
Ellie Virrueta Ortiz is a community organizer and Policy Associate at Essie Justice Group, the nation’s leading advocacy organization of women with incarcerated loved ones. With over five years of...
Tanasia Newman
Tanasia Newman is an organizer, storyteller, and the Senior Communications Manager at Essie Justice Group, the nation’s leading advocacy organization of women with incarcerated loved ones. Rooted in the expertise...
From Police Reform to Abolition: What We’ve Learned in the Last Five Years
Executive Director of the African American Roundtable in Milwaukee unpacks their journey from local reform work to a national focus on the prison abolition movement. In April 2014, I witnessed...
Markasa Tucker-Harris
Markasa Tucker-Harris is an organizer and master facilitator, trained in conflict mediation, de-escalation, and circle facilitation. She also has a background in media relations and a Bachelor of Arts degree...
Palestine is at the Heart of the Fight Against Trump’s Fascism
In a final essay, Forge contributing editors reflect on how Palestine is the issue most critical to defeating Fascism in the upcoming administration Author Ta-Nehisi Coates has shown remarkable humility,...
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Young People and The Fight Against Fascism
Anthony Vidal Torres, a digital organizer at the Get Free Movement explains why young people’s voices should lead us a new administration of harm begins. This article is a part...
Left Out: The Missing Election Narratives
COVID, Palestine, Election 2024, and the Cult of Democratic Moderation
Vinay Krishnan, National Field Organizer at Popular Democracy unpacks the long standing pandemic denialism and lackluster moderation of the COVI-19 pandemic that still plagues in the current moment. This article...
A Call for Unity in Unlikely Places
Lead strategists at Working Families Party and The Uncommitted Movement join together to discuss the shared values that led them to push the Democratic party further left. This article is...
How Abortion Won in Arizona
Maria Esch, researcher for the Alternative Unionism Project at the Center for Work and Democracy dives deep into the local efforts to pass Proposition 139 in Arizona during the 2024...
Solidarity Is Not a Transaction
Clarissa Brooks, Editor In Chief at The Forge unpacks the phenomenon of solidarity being misunderstood and corrects the record on the origins of the purpose of global solidarity efforts for...
Gen Z Is Done with Dems’ Bullshit
Delaney Vandergrift, social impact strategist at Southern Vision Alliance details the failings of the Democratic Party and it’s failure to show up for young people. This article is a part...
Welcome to the Margins
This article is a part of Left Out: The Missing Election narratives, a collection of unreported histories by publications inside of the Movement Media Alliance. In the spirit of collaboration that these...
Need More People Power in Times of Crisis? Run Mass Trainings
For movements trying to harness the energy that emerges during political upheavals, mass training provides a crucial means to develop leadership and bring in new participants.
Anthony Vidal Torres
Anthony Vidal Torres is an organizer and digital strategist at Get Free.
Vinay Krishnan
Vinay Krishnan is the National Field Organizer for Popular Democracy, where he works to end the War on Drugs, expand the use of Harm Reduction to combat overdose, and achieve universal healthcare...
Layla Elabed
Layla Elabed is the campaign manager for Listen to Michigan in her own capacity as a regional organizer with We the People in Southeast Michigan. Elabed is a leading voice ...
Clarissa Brooks
Clarissa Brooks serves as editor in chief at The Forge. A child of Southern Black Movement work and a proud Afro-Carolinian, Brooks is based in Philadelphia and seeks to explore...
Delaney Vandergrift
Delaney Vandergrift is a cultural worker and social impact strategist at Southern Vision Alliance. In her home state of North Carolina, Vandergrift cofounded Refund Raleigh and served as the HBCU...
Maria Esch
Maria Esch is a researcher for the Alternative Unionism Project at the Center for Work and Democracy. Her academic interests include intersectional feminist studies, queer theory and labor organizing.