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Getty Images Building Better Leadership Pipelines
In “Building Resilient Organizations,” Maurice Mitchell articulates what many in the professional left have felt but are afraid to say; the once-stable ground of our movement has turned into a space with rising tensions, organizational infighting, and proxy wars that have undermined our ability to be effective.
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Building Bottom-Up Democracy Through Co-Governance
People’s movements are challenging oligarchic power and holding out a powerful vision of robust political and economic democracy to replace it, but our power so far remains marginal, and we are nowhere near ready to govern.
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Campaigning to Limit Comcast
Ten years ago, Philadelphia’s Media Mobilizing Project launched a campaign to force Comcast to provide service to working-class residents. It was a learning experience in “inside game” organizing that continues to shape the city’s progressive movements.
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A Powerful Tool for Campaigns and Crises
Too often, we base critical strategies on a series of unquestioned assumptions and untested relationships. Simulation exercises can improve strategy, build stronger relationships, and break down hierarchies.
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Community Organizing and Electoral Politics
Is Involvement in Elections a Source of Synergy—or Distraction?
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Building the Front, Strengthening Our Movement
This March 9 live-streamed features movement leaders who are actively fighting the Right while building bases and alliances for the long-term struggle for racial and economic justice and inclusive democracy.
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How Los Angeles Tenants Beat the Landlords—For Now
The rise of a renters’ movement and its electoral victories last November have reshaped some fundamental city policies.
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Getty Images The Great Escape: An Organizing Thriller
The Great Escape is oxygen for the organizer and fire for an organizing revival.
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Disrupting the Movement Ecosystem
Heather Cronk on GetEqual's campaign to end "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"
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The Tenants Who Went to Washington
The Homes Guarantee Campaign got the attention of policymakers at the highest levels. Now these tenant organizers want to get the policy.
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Making Paid Sick Time a Reality
Organizing for paid leave, which is on the verge of passing in Minnesota, is part of a larger challenge to reverse an abusive workplace status quo.
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Small Businesses Rise to Fight Wall Street
Small businesses are organizing around increased swipe fees. Their efforts could further an anti-monopoly revolution.
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Courtesy of Training for Change Grieving After a Big Campaign Loss
West Virginia Can't Wait's Kately Lauer on our movement's growing pains
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Courtesy of Training for Change Campaigning against a “done deal” in Philadelphia
Daniel Hunter of 350.org on the campaign to stop casino development in Philadelphia.
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Courtesy of Training for Change Organizing to Stop a Memphis Pipeline
Justin J. Pearson on Memphis Community Against Pollution's fight to stop a new pipeline.
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Courtesy of Training for Change A Campaign to Stop Amazon’s Price-Gouging
Women’s March uses campaigns as "political identity formation moments"
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Courtesy of Local Progress The Fight for Progressive Power Starts in Local Communities
As many inside the beltway start shifting their attention to speculation about 2024, we know that there is work to be done right now.
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Courtesy of Training for Change The Campaign to End Cash Bail
This year, Illinois will become the first state to eliminate wealth-based pretrial incarceration. The path to passing the legislation holds lessons for organizers in how to win large-scale victories.
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Courtesy of Dyanna Jaye Understanding Sunrise: Structure & Governance
Lessons on Structure & Governance of Mass Organizations
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Photo from NGP Action (Facebook) Debriefing the 2022 Midterms: Hard Wins and Historic Threats
To help make sense of this moment, Mat Hanson sat down with DaMareo Cooper, Kendra Cotton, Michael Podhorzer, and Nancy MacLean.