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Photo credits: David Kamba “They Go Low, We Go Deep”
This is a problem organizers and organizations confront every time they elect an ally to office: How can labor, community, and other peoples’ organizations keep politicians to their commitments after the election? Here’s how we did it.
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Photo credits: Alex Moore Hot Labor Summer
This summer’s labor fights are an important opportunity for an increasingly militant labor movement to win critical battles.
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Photo credits: Jackson King How a Black Led Corporate Accountability Campaign Is Winning in Detroit
Highlights of the successes of a corporate accountability campaign led by black grassroots organizations in holding corporations accountable for their actions and addressing systemic racial injustices.
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Courtesy of Prostock-Studio Back to Where It All Began
An interview with Anthony Thigpenn & Sabrina Smith of California Calls
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Getty Images How (Not) to Dismantle White Supremacy
Is the fixation on naming "white supremacy culture" overtaking the fight against white supremacy?
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The Case for Expanding Democracy Work
Aditi Juneja argues that national issue-based organizations, pro-democracy organizations, and funders should expand their work to support grassroots organizers and create a long-term vision for a movement for a more democratic country.
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Painted by Juana Alicia and Mike Konopacki Something Old, Something New: The Arc of Organizational Resilience
Kim Fellner draws on her experience with the National Organizers Alliance to look at the persistence—and shifts—of the challenges movement organizations face.
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Can movements keep politicians from inevitably selling out?
By understanding how mainstream political culture co-opts elected officials, grassroots groups can help them resist.
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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.