Provoke. Legitimize. Win. A Review of The Guarantee
A review of Natalie Foster's new "hopepunk" book that challenges right and leftwing cynicism with a clear-eyed vision for a beautiful future we may already be moving toward.
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Nuts and Bolts for Building Resilient Organizations
Organizers discuss practical ways to deal with the challenges of non-profit culture.
What does “grassroots” mean?
A review of Power Concedes Nothing
“Power doesn’t give up power easily”
Hahrie Han on her new book, the moments of uncertainty that face every organization, and why base building is critical to navigating changing power dynamics over the long haul.
White Feminism Promotes Mass Incarceration
A review of Aya Graber’s The Feminist War on Crime
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What is Power?
Ben Chin talks with Nelini Stamp, James Haslam, Arleen Vargas, and Kendall Mackey about how their understanding of power has changed since they started organizing and what shifted their perspective.
Inside the Organizers Corner
Keeping Bottom-Up Democracy Strong
Ben Chin talks with Nelini Stamp, James Haslam, Arleen Vargas, and Kendall Mackey about how they're keeping bottom-up democracy strong as their organizations grow in size and power.
Inside the Organizers Corner
The Ups and Downs of New Voices in the Movement
Ben Chin talks with Nelini Stamp, James Haslam, Arleen Vargas, and Kendall Mackey about the influx of white, upwardly-mobile activists in the movement during the Trump years.
Inside the Organizers Corner
Merge Left
There’s no excuse for recycling tired phrases about “the middle class,” or simply pointing out how Trump is bad, without injecting our own values and vision into the conversation. We know that ignoring race should qualify as political malpractice. Let’s at least make new mistakes. López and his fellow researchers have given us everything we need to get started.
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Dealing with Funders: Lessons from the Long Civil Rights Movement
A Review of <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/lasr.12384">“The Price of Civil Rights: Black Lives, White Funding, and Movement Capture,”</a> by Megan Francis Ming, and<a href="https://uncpress.org/book/9781469652009/poll-power/"> Poll Power,</a> by Evan Faulkenbury
Why Changing Minds Isn’t Activism
A book review of Ibram X. Kendi’s How to Be an Anti-Racist.
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