Articles
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Getty Images Power, Control, and Trust in Coalitions
Nine tips for how to make coalitions work
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Koshu Kunii Movement Capture: Lessons from Funders and Organizers
Dorian Warren, Megan Ming Francis, and Maurice Mitchell talk about the history of "movement capture" and the work it will take to create healthy and sustainable movement cultures.
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Alex Radelich “Power doesn’t give up power easily”
Hahrie Han on her new book, the moments of uncertainty that face every organization, and why base building is critical to navigating changing power dynamics over the long haul.
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Getty Images Building People-Powered Budgets
Insights from budget campaigns across the PowerSwitch Action network
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Photo courtesy of Forward Montana Progressive Organizers Must Redefine Success in Conservative States
I want the rest of America to see the rural America that I see: the queer and trans youth and youth of color refusing to be ignored and the young people demanding progressive change in order to save our planet and humanity.
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Getty Images Transforming youth-led organizing in the digital age
While technology is transforming grassroots organizing in incredible ways, the core of our work is still relationship building.
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Photo courtesy of New Era Colorado Youth power requires more than electoral organizing
Our electoral organizing model increased turnout, but young people of color deserve more.
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Photo by Obi Onyeador Young People Will Carry Us On
Tynetta Hill-Muhammad on why she sees young people as the foundation of the abolitionist movement, the work BYP100 does to transform the personal into the political, and the challenges and opportunities of working cross-generationally.
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Photo courtesy of Generation Citizen Advocacy Within the School House
How Generation Citizen is pushing civics beyond the classroom to the community
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Getty Images “Make the status quo unlivable”
Providence Student Union’s Emma Jewett on empowering young people to take action, navigating relationships with adult allies, and why youth organizing is such a powerful mechanism for change.
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Photo courtesy of Oakland Kids First Oakland Students Turn the Tables
How Oakland Kids First built youth governing power during a pandemic
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Rhododendrites Wikimedia Commons The Long Arc
Greisa Martinez Rosas on the importance of personal transformation, the long arc of the movement for justice, and how United We Dream’s strategies are shifting with the new administration.
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Photo by Gayatri Malhotra Introduction: Youth Organizing in the U.S.
In all of these stories, young people’s creativity, moral courage, and commitment enabled them to turn the resources they have into the power for change.
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Photo courtesy of David Duhalde How YDSA Will Grow Post-Bernie
YDSA National Coordinating Committee Co-Chair Sarandon Elliott talks about the opportunities and challenges facing YDSA in this moment, her plans to help grow the organization over the next year, and the difference between socialist organizing and other forms of campus activism.
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Getty Images From Climate Strikes to the Union Hall
Young workers are key to building the labor climate movement.
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Image courtesy of Californians for Justice From Demanding to Commanding Power
We must find ways to transform the whole system, not just change policies. That will never happen unless we change the people, the culture, and the power young people of color have over their lives.
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Photo courtesy of the author Commentary: Youth Organizing in the U.S.
We must build young leaders to make mass organization possible.
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Getty Images Drafting Chile’s New Constitution
Mapuche representative Rosa Catrileo on her work in the community, the Mapuche demands for land and water in their historic territory, and how the new constitution can address those critical issues.
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Photo courtesy of Working Families Party Debriefing the NY Primaries
Four veteran organizers talk about the recent elections in New York, the fractures that persist on the left, and how the movement failed to take advantage of ranked-choice voting to sweep the races.
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Photo by Charles Edward Miller (WikiCommons) Making Our Demands Both Practical and Visionary
How social movements are employing the concept of the “non-reformist reform” to promote far-reaching change