At this moment, our sector is immersed in a critical debate over what it takes to win. Yet primarily scrutinizing current organizers in a rush toward correction risks getting the...
Rebecca Gorena (she/ella) is a community advocate and program director with over a decade of experience in social justice movements, including labor, gender justice, and LGBTQ+ liberation. She has served...
Kara Park (she/her) is a former organizer, facilitator and coalition builder who has been shaped by her work with reproductive justice and Asian American organizing efforts in Oregon, Minnesota and...
Alicia Jay (she/her) is the co-founder and former executive director of All Due Respect, a national project working to improve sectoral labor standards for community organizers, and currently serves as the...
Izzy Goodman (She/her) has spent over a decade recruiting, training, and mobilizing volunteers and organizers, as well as supporting progressive organizing projects to find the necessary infrastructure, staff, and support...
To build consistent voter turnout beyond star candidates, funders must shift from late-cycle spam to early, year-round investments in community-based civic education, trusted messengers, and leadership development. It seems counterintuitive...
5 Lessons Learned for Mamdani From 40 Years of Building Independent Politics in Chicago. In 1983, Harold Washington was the first Black man to be elected mayor of Chicago. He...
The Climate Advocacy Lab’s Blueprint for Multiracial, Cross-Class Climate Movement is an updated report and workbook providing tools to build healthier, more effective climate coalitions through strategic culture, governance, and...
Social media users are exposing how major news headlines manipulate language to sanitize violence in Gaza—proving that a simple annotation can be a means of resistance. Language Is Never Neutral...
To fight tech giants and law enforcement, organizers must adopt “data defense” as a core strategy—learning to collectively refuse data extraction, expose biased narratives, and reclaim personal and community information...
While mainstream media pushes narratives of scarcity and inevitability, frontline communities practicing “Solidarity Economics” demonstrate that “resist and build” is a proven path. It forges collective power and creates a...
When a racist lie transformed Springfield, Ohio into a national flashpoint, this story reveals how a local network fought back not with outrage, but by asking a radical, actionable question:...
If the Right has the “Great Replacement,” what’s our equivalent story to win the reality war? This article argues the Left must master the art of narrative warfare to counter...
This article is a field manual for building the four essential narrative infrastructures needed to dismantle authoritarianism, arguing that movements must construct them urgently to survive and wield transformative power....
In a digital age designed to breed distrust and flatten dialogue, this article reveals how an in-person Black creative and activist salon is pioneering the very kind of trusting, imaginative...
Arguing that disengagement from AI is not a strategy but a surrender, this piece challenges progressive organizers and funders to reclaim the technology, using frameworks like Afrofuturism to build people...
As Israel’s genocide in Gaza rages for two years, this is how propaganda warps U.S. media and our conscience, and how we must fight back. Two years of bearing witness...
This article argues that to counter the well-funded, agile anti-immigrant narrative, the immigrant justice movement must fundamentally overhaul its own fractured infrastructure, abandon siloed “messaging” for a cohesive “narrative surround-sound,”...
Despite colonial policies pushing Puerto Ricans out, this article chronicles how organizers are fighting back by fusing mutual aid, political campaigns, and cultural joy into a powerful, people-led narrative: that...
By showcasing victories in Tennessee and Florida, this piece offers a concrete blueprint for building narrative power, showing that the antidote to fascist distraction is seizing the moral high ground...