Recent Articles
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Featured illustration for Convergence by Kimmie Dearest Because We Need Each Other Pt.3: The Early Warning Signs of Cancel Culture
In this four-part series, we are exploring the phenomenon known as “cancel culture.” We hope to invite more people into conversations about how we work through tension and conflict in our movements, and to offer viable pathways for recognition, prevention,...
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Featured illustration for Convergence by Kimmie Dearest Understanding Cancel Culture
In this four-part series, we are exploring the phenomenon known as “cancel culture” in collaboration with Convergence Magazine. We hope to invite more people into conversations about how we work through tension and conflict in our movements, and to offer...
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Popular Democracy Post-Election Debrief
Following the 2024 Election, Popular Democracy convened Executive Directors and senior staff of the grassroots power building organizations that make up its network. The meeting took place before President Trump was inaugurated and included a panel of organizational leaders reflecting...
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Because We Need Each Other, Part I: Origin Story
Exploring the phenomenon known as “cancel culture” as a collaboration with Convergence Magazine In this four-part series, we are exploring the phenomenon known as “cancel culture.” We hope to invite more people into conversations about how we work through tension...
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Fortifying the Frontlines: How to Protect Social Movements Under Attack
Executive Director of the Building Movement Project, Janis Rosheuvel unpacks how to bolster the frontlines of movement work for the fight ahead The burning of the main office building at The Highlander Center, an historic movement training venue; the violent...
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Emancipation Over Extinction
Somatic coach and organizer, Aaron Jamal, provides a timely reminder to fight for emancipation in ongoing times of extreme oppression. Apocalyptic hurricanes in my home state of North Carolina and cataclysmic firestorms on the other side of the country have...
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Plan 2028: Bringing Labor and Social Movements Together
Plan 2028 isn’t just another general strike call—it’s a strategic, long-term push to unite labor and social movements in a coordinated fight against rising authoritarianism. The Trump Administration has come in with brute force, attacking working people and institutions from...
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Building Community, Building Power: Lessons from Indigenous Women in Colombia
Peralta, a former Political Director at SEIU sits down with Mayor of Jambaló, Emilse Paz Labio about her decades long work towards women’s rights and environmental justice. How does one build resilience and power in the face of the daily...
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Reflecting on COVID, Year 5
Vee Copeland, a disabled organizer and former policy analyst details their experience facing the lack of care in movement strategy around surviving the current administration It has been a treacherous five years since the COVID pandemic began. According to the...
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Collective Breathing: Post-Election Grief, Organizing, and Surviving with a Disability
Copeland, a disabled organizer and former policy analyst details their experience facing the lack of care in movement strategy around surviving the current administration Trump won the presidential election. And since last November, I have been engaging in meditations and...