Articles
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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
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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.