Articles
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Courtesy of Mike Gallagher Best Action Ever
Or, the Hunter Gets Captured by the Game
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Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University Organizing 9to5
A conversation with two leaders of the 9to5 movement
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Courtesy of Alicia Garza The Purpose of Power
Solana Rice talks with Alicia Garza about how our movements build power, the role of social media in organizing, and why Black communities need their own spaces to get organized.
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Photo by, Can Candan An Uprising for a Democratic University in Turkey
Boğaziçi professor Taylan Acar talks about organizing for the resistance at the Turkish university — and what U.S. labor organizers can learn from their struggle.
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Courtesy of Siembra Five Lessons From the Past Four Years
If campaign organizing is a series of peaks and valleys, 2021 has already brought many of us vertigo.
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Getty Images The Left Needs to Engage Members if We Want to Win Big
Too often, leaders magnify the voices of a very small group of members, if they even cite members’ views. This reality reflects significant weaknesses in unions and their organizing practices, and illustrates how shallow and limited our understanding of democracy is.
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Library of Congress To Build a New World
An excerpt of Seeing Like an Activist
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Getty Images Healing in the Post-Trump Era Is Necessary Work
The Trump years have had a deep impact on everyone’s mental health. What has it done to those of us who had the responsibility for stopping him?
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Courtesy of the author Fighting Austerity One Voter At a Time
Lessons from the fight to tax the rich in Illinois
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Courtesy of Cristina Jiménez Moreta Debriefing the Resistance
We must be unapologetic about our vision for this country and inspire millions to dream with us about building a new story and a new country where all of us live with dignity and thrive.
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Courtesy of Luisa Boyarski Harnessing Virginia’s Grassroots Resistance
Our coalition model helped channel grassroots energy into effective political organizing.
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Courtesy of Nikil Saval Lessons from the Campaign Trail
Nikil Saval on organizing for his own campaign, why he believes progressives need to engage in party building, and the lessons he’s learned about how to build power over the past four years.
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Courtesy of New Georgia Project Staying Ready: An Interview with Nsé Ufot
“Any Georgian that says, ‘But my vote doesn't count’ — there are thousands of young people who voted for the first time who can tell them that that's not the case.”
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Courtesy of Josh Kaplowitz Getting Off the Sidelines in a Deep Blue Suburb
Arlington Families has created a vehicle to increase our power and stave off the forces of fascism while finding ways to make activism fun for kids of all ages.
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Getty Images The Immigrant Justice Movement Should Embrace Abolition
In the wake of the uprisings for Black lives and the unprecedented impacts of 2020, it’s past time for the immigrant justice movement to transcend the criminalizing frame and embrace abolition.
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Courtesy of Jackson Potter The Resurgence of Teachers Unions
Now is the time to build on the grassroots organizing of teachers unions and grow a more militant labor movement across the country.
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Courtesy of Patrice Lawrence Strength and Sustainability
Patrice Lawrence on her work organizing the Black immigrant communities at the center of racist attacks from the Trump administration
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Courtesy of Maddy Zimmerman The Rise of NYC-DSA
Building campaign practices that value wide-scale community engagement over concentrated sources of capital is a first step to building a world that puts people over profit.
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Getty Images Unapologetic Solidarity
We will never agree on all policies, campaigns, pieces of legislation, or talking points. But we must stop pushing policies, campaigns, or narratives that leave communities out because we believe it is more strategic.
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Courtesy of Carmen Perez Intersectional Feminism & Coalition Building
Reflections on the 2017 Women’s March on Washington