Tending to Liberation
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...
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The Opposite Of Corporate Power Is People Power
Although we’ve seen meaningful progress in recent years to rein in runaway corporate power, a lack of a strong, grassroots-baked base has meant those actions haven’t been able to be sustained for long. In this conversation, LiJia Gong, formerly with Local Progress, and Ryan Gerety from Athena Coalition, focus on the need for bold, accessible, and relevant policy solutions that center everyday people, name corporate harms, and move beyond the limits of elite-driven anti-monopoly strategies.
Abolition and Anti-capitalism: For a Liberation Economy
The following are edited excerpts from remarks shared by Maurice BP-Weeks, founder of The Action Center on Race and the Economy, and Solana Rice, a founder of Liberation in a Generating, during the Abolitionist Organizing Network Gathering on the relationship of our economy and abolition.
State of Abolition Introduction
The Forge's Abolitionist Issue aims to capture the "State of Abolition" and provide an overview of not only what modern abolitionists are doing, but the logic and experience that is driving the work. These are a series of reflections from the Abolitionist Gathering which occurred in 2022, two years after the 2020 Uprisings. Much of this work was either produced by participants during the conference or through reflection on their organizing afterward.
Battling on the Issues
Pablo Rodriguez of Communities for a New California talks with Solana Rice and Jeremie Greer about electoral organizing.
Racism Is Profitable
The Reflection Episode
In this bonus episode of Raci$m Is Profitable, former US Labor Secretary Robert Reich joins co-hosts Solana Rice and Jeremie Greer to look back at earlier episodes.
Representation Is Not Enough: We Need Collective Governance
In this episode of Raci$m Is Profitable, Demos President Taifa Butler joins Solana Rice and Jeremie Greer to talk about governance.
Racism Is Profitable
Reclaiming Our Financial Power
In this episode of the Raci$m Is Profitable podcast, Solana Rice and Jeremie Greer join ACRE’s Maurice BP-Weeks to examine the oppressive narratives that limit people of color’s economic power.
Racism Is Profitable
We All Belong
In this episode of Raci$m Is Profitable, Greisa Martínez Rosas of United We Dream joins Solana Rice and Jeremie Greer to talk about citizenship.
Racism Is Profitable
Toxic Individualism Ain’t It
On episode three of Raci$m Is Profitable, Solana Rice and Jeremie Greer talk about personal responsibility — the idea that if your money's not right, it's because you're doing something wrong.
Racism Is Profitable
Practicing Imagination
Mariame Kaba talks about how her work has changed over the last year, why she writes, and how she keeps visioning at the forefront of her organizing practice.
Fighting for the Right to Protest
Simon Adams of the Dream Defenders breaks down what Florida’s new law restricting the right to protest means for organizers in the state, and why community is critical in this fight.
The Uprisings: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
This is an intergenerational collection of writers and organizers, movement and world builders, soul stirrers and table shakers, healers and the still healing.
“Now is the time to start to live it”
Syrus Marcus Ware and Dara Baldwin on the long struggle for abolition, the centrality of disability justice to the movement, and their vision for building safe communities.
Living in Abundance
Tracey Corder talks about the cultural and narrative work that needs to happen to make abolition possible — and what it would look like to live in a society rooted in abundance and care.
“The legacy that we leave will be the people”
Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson and Greisa Martinez on what it means to support and center Black leadership, the spiritual elements of organizing work, and their visions for the future.
“No one person can transform a system”
Maurice Mitchell and Rukia Lumumba on what co-governance means, the relationship between elected officials and movements, and how we build decision-making processes rooted in community.
The Purpose of Power
Solana Rice talks with Alicia Garza about how our movements build power, the role of social media in organizing, and why Black communities need their own spaces to get organized.