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Getty Images “We all have to step up and do this work”
Andrea Dehlendorf and Strea Sanchez on why they believe that organizing workers today requires us to challenge much of the received wisdom about how best to organize a workplace.
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Getty Images We Need a Popular Front to Overthrow Corporate Rule. Small Businesses Are Key.
After more than 40 years in which public policy has actively encouraged concentration, giving rise to megacorporations whose power threatens to eclipse that of government itself, today’s growing anti-monopoly movement offers a promising path for uniting small businesses with workers and building the political will for change.
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Adrian Sulyok Our Organizing Must Match the Structure of Our Target
As we think about how to organize Amazon’s workforce, it is vital that we ask ourselves if our organizing matches the structure of the company — geographically, sectorally, and financially. Currently, it does not to the extent it needs to.
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Getty Images “We knew that no normal NLRB election would work”
Gene Bruskin on what organizers fighting megacorporations today can learn from the campaign at Smithfield
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Fibonacci Blue More Important Than the Right Answer
As a seasoned organizer confronting new conditions, I invite others to join me in embracing the freedom of admitting our uncertainty.
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BP Miller Organizing Megacorporations: Building a Movement for the 21st Century
The question of how to organize megacorporations is urgent for everyone who works for justice.
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Photo by, Mateo Oi Lessons from a renewed student movement in Italy
Short-term failures can lay the groundwork for long-term success.
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Photo by, Stephen Hosey Challenging the Language of Power Onstage
Glaswegian youth act for just climate policy
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photo by, Maksim Sokolov (Maxergon) What the US can learn from Canadian activists who blocked truck convoys
As the trucker convoy makes its way to Washington, Canadian blockades offer lessons on how to stop far-right occupations in their tracks.
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photo credit: Getty Images What to Do When the World Is Ending
So what do we do when the world is ending? The same things that so many of the giants on whose shoulders we stand did when their worlds were ending. We choose to face our despair — to walk towards it and through it —choose to take action, choose to build movements. We do it because we don’t know how it ends, because there are possibilities out there that we simply can’t see from here.
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Getty Images Ukraine doesn’t need to match Russia’s military might to defend against invasion
Throughout history, people facing occupation have tapped into the power of nonviolent struggle to thwart their invaders.
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Photo by Amaury Laporte, Wiki Commons It’s time to take inspiration from Ukraine and double down on global democratic solidarity
As courageous Ukrainians and Russian antiwar protesters resist Putin’s brutal war, we can do far more to support pro-democracy activists and movements.
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Getty Images Building Power with Popular Education
Popular education is essential to building an equitable future — especially for base-building organizations.
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photo credit: Getty Images Toxic Individualism Ain’t It
On episode three of Raci$m Is Profitable, Solana Rice and Jeremie Greer talk about personal responsibility — the idea that if your money's not right, it's because you're doing something wrong.
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Getty Images The Lost Art of Listening for Issues
Let’s move from funding organizations to mobilize, and instead allow the space to organize.
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Hope in an Unlikely Place
A review of A Field Guide to White Supremacy
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Author courtesy of Aline López Participatory Budgeting in Mexico: An Interview with Aline López
Aline Yunery Zunzunegui López talks about changing Mexican political culture through participatory budgeting.
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Image courtesy of the authors Community Care is the Language of Peace
It is radical to care in societies in which inequality is the norm and marginalized communities are stripped of their humanity.
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Image courtesy of Caryn Dasah Young Women’s Peace Activism in Cameroon: An Interview with Caryn Oyo Dasah
Peace activist Caryn Dasah on why lasting solutions will only come when women and girls directly affected by armed conflict are part of the decision-making about how to resolve the crisis.
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photo credit: Getty Images Whose Money? Our Money.
A conversation with Demond Drummer