Articles
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An Interview with Doran Schrantz
This is the first piece in a new Forge series — <a href="/node/1227">What’s Your Power Analysis? </a>— in which veteran organizer Deepak Pateriya talks with organizers and movement leaders about the power analysis that guides their work, the power they’re trying to build and exercise, how it’s going, and how they know.
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Getty Images The Reflection Episode
In this bonus episode of Raci$m Is Profitable, former US Labor Secretary Robert Reich joins co-hosts Solana Rice and Jeremie Greer to look back at earlier episodes.
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Getty Images Practice, Practice, Practice
To build stronger movements, we need to build up our ambition, be strategic in our discipline, and lead with the process.
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ISAIAH’s Multiracial “House”
Executive Director Doran Schrantz went against the advice of non-profit manuals and decided to restructure the staff. How did she reimagine the organizational chart, thus enabling ISAIAH’s house to grow?
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Renewing the Lineage of Nonviolent Movement
A Review of Erica Chenoweth’s Civil Resistance: What Everyone Needs to Know
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photo credit: Getty Images Representation Is Not Enough: We Need Collective Governance
In this episode of Raci$m Is Profitable, Demos President Taifa Butler joins Solana Rice and Jeremie Greer to talk about governance.
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Photo courtesy of the Center for Popular Democracy “Who have we learned from? The people.”
Steve Kest talks with Stephanie Maldonado, Christina Livingston, Allison Brim, and Arlenis Morel about the importance of organizing basics like door knocking, listening, and leadership development in driving their organizations; what they’ve learned from older organizing traditions; and how they’ve adapted or changed those traditions to become more effective and powerful.
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Courtesy of the authors Organizing from Cambridge to Corrientes
When environmental justice organizers in Argentina partnered with Harvard students to fight Harvard Management Company, they learned several lessons about border-crossing organizing: the importance of identifying the real decision-makers and centering the demands of frontline communities.
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Organizing All People
We will not win without destroying white supremacy and patriarchy
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photo credit: Getty Images Reclaiming Our Financial Power
In this episode of the Raci$m Is Profitable podcast, Solana Rice and Jeremie Greer join ACRE’s Maurice BP-Weeks to examine the oppressive narratives that limit people of color’s economic power.
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Credit: Victor Odiba's The Arts in Today’s Movements
Insights from Nigeria’s #EndSARS Campaign
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An MST march. (Facebook/Gustavo Marinho) How movements can maintain their radical vision while winning practical reforms
Forty years of struggle by Brazil's landless workers movement offers lessons on engaging the system without being co-opted.
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Getty Images Leveling the Information Playing Field
University financial analyses can serve as political education and organizing tools.
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The Roots and Reasons of Privatization
An excerpt from The Privatization of Everything
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“My job was to organize you”
An excerpt from On the Line
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photo credit: Getty Images Revolutionary Grounds
On February 23, the DSA International Committee, Starbucks Workers United, and the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee hosted Revolutionary Grounds to hear insights from Starbucks workers organizing from Buffalo, New York, to Valparaíso, Chile.
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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.