Articles
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Climate protest at COP 26. Courtesy of Mark Ortiz. Fighting Climate Change in the Global South
Mark Ortiz talks with youth climate justice organizers from the Philippines, Balochistan, Mexico, and Bangladesh who are working with Fridays for Future MAPA (Most Affected Peoples and Areas).
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Asael Peña From Coworkers to Comrades
A conversation with Coworker’s Michelle Miller and Tim Newman
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Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives,Cornell University Library “It’s Never the End Because the Struggle Continues”: An Interview with Kim Kelly
Kim Kelly on her new book, labor journalism today, and what is giving her hope right now.
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Image courtesy of the author Strategy Charts & Power Maps: A User Guide
Check out these useful guides to create strategies for labor organizing and other social movement campaigns. These tools ask us to think deeply about how we are building the power of disruption to win.
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Courtesy of Color Of Change Color Of Change’s “Big Tent”
Color of Change’s Arisha Hatch talks with Joy Cushman and Melanie Brazzell about the Building Structure Shapes report and the organization’s “big tent” structure.
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photo credit: Getty Images We All Belong
In this episode of Raci$m Is Profitable, Greisa Martínez Rosas of United We Dream joins Solana Rice and Jeremie Greer to talk about citizenship.
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Wikimedia Commons Could This Time Be Different?
Amazon warehouse workers in Staten Island just won a union. Is this the signal the labor movement’s been waiting for?
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Building the Leadership of Members
Cecily Myart Cruz, the current President of UTLA, and area leaders Georgia Flowers Lee and Maria Miranda talk with UTLA Secretary Arlene Inouye about their organizing efforts, the barriers that still confront women of color, and how to dismantle these barriers to build the future we want.
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Call for Responses: Organizing Megacorporations
Join the conversation about the movement we need to organize megacorporations.
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Sheldon Dick (Library of Congress) Lessons From Manufacturing in the 1930s
Eighty years ago, manufacturing unions faced the challenge of organizing a new and rapidly growing industry. What can we learn from these earlier struggles?
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Rory Finneren, Wiki Commons Let A Thousand Flowers Bloom
Jill Hurst talks about her decades of experience in the labor movement, what labor can learn from movements like ACT UP, and the power of a militant minority executing culturally transgressive disruptions.
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Getty Images “Winning in the South is the key to saving our democracy”
A conversation with Alphonso Mayfield
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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