Articles
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Courtesy of Training for Change Keeping a Hard No
Campaign lessons from the battle to stop Amazon’s HQ2 in Queens
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Courtesy of UTST “Disrupting the Power Structure”
Building in red states and communities with United Today, Stronger Tomorrow
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Courtesy of UTST “Contesting for Power Is So important”
Building in red states and communities with United Today, Stronger Tomorrow
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Courtesy of Ravi Mangla “We have to tell larger stories”
New York Working Families Party communications director Ravi Mangla talks about his new novel, The Observant, and how he thinks about writing fiction and doing politics.
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Lessons from the Campaign to Win DACA
Neidi Dominguez on how youung undocumented organizers won by not listening to DC, embracing disagreement, and using multiple strategies.
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Courtesy of New America Winning Paid Family Leave in Delaware
Liz Richards on how she planted the seeds for the Delaware family leave bill, formed a coalition from the ground up, and elevated people power along the way.
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Photo by Kandukuru Nagarjun. Licensed CC BY 2.0 Organizing Against Autocracy in the US: Erica Chenoweth and Zoe Marks
Authoritarian takeover is not inevitable—but preventing it will require imagination, commitment, and a united democratic alliance like we haven’t experienced before.
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Clockwise from top: UNITE HERE, Faith In Minnesota, Pennsylvania Stands Up. MAGA Stymied But Stalemate Remains
Effective organizing helped block the “Red Wave.” This buys our movements a bit more time to build to the scale and unity we need to defeat the authoritarian right.
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“The Bosses of the Senate” by Joseph Keppler From Countervailing to Prevailing Power
Progressives should plan our fights against anti-democratic oligarchies with the explicit aim of becoming the dominant political force.
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Courtesy of New America Planting the Seeds for Movement Building
An interview with Georgia STAND-Up’s CEO, Deborah Scott
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Element5 Digital Battling on the Issues
Pablo Rodriguez of Communities for a New California talks with Solana Rice and Jeremie Greer about electoral organizing.
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Courtesy of Grassroots Collaborative Lessons from Chicago Coalition Building
How to build a coalition with members who (mostly) don’t hate each other
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Vidar Nordil Mathisen What’s the problem with taking state power?
As social movements move beyond the default anarchist sensibility that prevailed through Occupy, they must still reckon with hard questions about bureaucracy and cooptation.
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Courtesy of New America Widening Political Participation in Lexington, Kentucky
An interview with Richard Young of CivicLex
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That’s Not One We Expected
An excerpt from How We Win The Civil War.
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Jandos Rothstein Using Policy to Reorganize Power
Even the best structural reforms will not succeed without aggressive organizing.
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MACMILLAN (WikiMedia Commons) ACT UP Was a Vanguard Organization
Sarah Schulman talks about the impetus for ACT UP, the group's structure and strategies, and lessons for organizers today.
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Photograph by María Jesús (Folil) Pueller Lessons from the Chilean Constitutional Convention
The failure of the proposed Chilean constitution marks a turning point in the process that began with the 2019 social uprising in Chile.
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Photograph by María Jesús (Folil) Pueller Inside the Chilean Constitutional Convention
An interview with Constitutional Convention Delegate and activist Elisa Giustinianovich
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Photograph by María Jesús (Folil) Pueller Multifunctional Workers: Organizing Walmart in Chile
An interview with leaders of unions at Walmart — Sandra Neida, Natalia Duque, and Juan Vergara — on changes in the supermarket industry and what the constitutional process meant for labor