Articles
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Getty Images Imagining Liberation
The stories we’ll tell ourselves in the future
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Getty Images Work Won’t Love Us Back
A conversation with Sarah Jaffe
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Ehimetalor Akhere Unuabona Call for Proposals: Youth Organizing Across the World
We are currently seeking proposals for articles for the international youth organizing issue.
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The Center of the Economy Isn’t Industry, It’s Care Work
Dave Kamper talks with Gabriel Winant about his new book, The Next Shift, and the organizing potential in care work.
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How can I ethically use social media for my campaign?
How do organizers square our criticisms of Big Tech with our reliance on its platforms to build the movements we need to win?
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Senate Democrats, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons Can social movements realign America’s political parties to win big change?
In claiming the goal of "realignment," groups such as Sunrise and Justice Democrats are reviving an old idea, with hopes of provoking new political transformations.
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Courtesy of Heather Booth “We Need Love at the Center”
Drew Astolfi talks with Heather Booth about her long career in organizing, how the movement has changed, and what’s giving her hope for the future.
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Getty Images One Fair Wage Is the New Era of the Restaurant Industry
As cities and states start relaxing COVID restrictions and mask mandates, tipped workers have reported a substantial decline in tips, a disturbing increase in sexual harassment, and an overwhelming responsibility to protect public health. We can’t go back to the old normal.
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Damon Bowe Tipped Workers and the Fight for $15
Mat Hanson talks with Nikki Cole about why tipped workers must be a central part of the effort to raise the minimum wage.
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Courtesy of David Rolf “Power is the end game.” Lessons from the Fight for $15.
David Rolf looks back on the last decade of organizing for a $15 minimum wage and wrestles with what it will take for the next labor upsurge to win.
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Courtesy of Adriana Rivera Give The People Something to Vote For
How the Florida Immigrant Coalition got out the vote to help win the Fight for $15.
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How Workers Won the Fight for $15 in Florida.
Starbucks worker and member organizer Sammy Conde spoke with Mat Hanson about their role in the successful Fight for $15 in Florida — and how they shifted gears to build power during the pandemic.
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More Popular Than Trump and Biden. How $15 Won in Florida
Kofi Hunt talks about what it took to build a coalition that delivered real change for working families in Florida.
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Getty Images The Amazon Loss & What We Owe Each Other in the Labor Movement
Bessemer is the latest, highly-visible example of one of the American labor movement’s prime weaknesses: the lack of systems or mechanisms that allow information, strategy decisions, and lessons learned to be shared across the movement.
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Images courtesy of Keith Kelleher Fast Food Fight
The early fight to organize Detroit’s fast food workers
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The All-Nite Images https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en The Fight for $15
Unprecedented organizing has helped build worker power and raise wages for millions of workers over the past decade. What can we learn from the Fight for $15, and what is still left to be done?
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Getty Images The Fight for $15: Past, Present, and Future
In the months and years ahead, the movement must continue pressing for a federal minimum wage increase for all workers — and for legislation that will make it easier to build fighting unions to empower workers in the long term.
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A McJobs Economy
An excerpt from Poor Workers' Unions
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Getty Images It’s Time for Labor to Embrace Antimonopoly
We need both movements if we are to democratize our economy and protect it from corporate power.
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Courtesy of Jennifer E. Cossyleon Healing from Carceral Oppression
Given the legacy of women of color as the backbone for racial justice movements, it is no surprise they are leading the movement to abolish our carceral society and to collectively heal from centuries of oppression.