Recent Articles
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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 you support closing Men’s Central Jail—a notoriously inhumane and deadly...
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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 firsthand the ways that white fear, hate and systemic power...
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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, vulnerability, and courage in recounting the evolution of his views...
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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 of Left Out: The Missing Election narratives, a collection of unreported histories...
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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 is a part of Left Out: The Missing Election narratives, a collection...
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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 a part of Left Out: The Missing Election narratives, a collection of...
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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 election. This article is a part of Left Out: The Missing...
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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 marginalized people. This article is a part of Left Out: The...
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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 of Left Out: The Missing Election narratives, a collection of unreported histories...
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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 times demand, In These Times, The Forge, Convergence and The...