Articles
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Overcoming Inequality in Unemployment Benefit Access and Utilization
By arming people with the information they need to navigate the systems that have failed them for centuries, we can begin to break down some of the barriers that have kept wealth out of the hands of Black people.
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Image courtesy of Voces de la Frontera La Tierra del Queso
Voces de la Frontera has consistently organized mass protests and community-wide strikes to defeat state and local policy threats to immigrant rights. We’ve also begun making inroads into rural organizing — building collective power that we’re now using to flip Wisconsin in the upcoming elections.
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Northern Plains Native Art
These prints, by Jennifer White, depict Northern Plains Native culture through abstract expressionism as well as representational depictions of women bisons and crows.
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Images courtesy of the author The Rural Tradition Bringing Communities Together
String band music is an effective way to bring diverse communities together — and a great source of inexpensive fun for progressive organizers.
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Rural Climate Justice Organizing
Leaders from Pennsylvania, Georgia, and New Mexico share the innovative strategies they are using to engage rural communities on campaigns for climate and clean energy progress.
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The Fight for Healthcare in Rural America
The loss of healthcare services is devastating for people living in rural communities. But growing activism shows that people are up for the fight to advance health equity in rural communities.
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Image courtesy of the author A Just and Equitable Future for Northern New England
It is critical to cultivate a new generation of leaders who can reimagine a thriving future for rural communities. Together, we are building a model of a people-powered organization to get us there.
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West Virginia Teachers Organizing for the Common Good
“If you want something done, you organize the workers with you. You don't wait on somebody else to do it for you.”
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We Need Small Businesses to Build an Equitable Economy
Progressives who are serious about countering corporate concentration and advancing racial and gender justice should embrace small business owners as partners in the fight for a more just economy.
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Education Justice Organizing
Education justice organizers describe what it's like on the ground, as parents, education activists, and community leaders.
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Winning Primaries: Coalition, Confrontation, or Both?
A recent essay lays out a framework for assessing two leftist strategies: coalition and confrontation. The liberal-left Winning Primaries alliance shows that this is an unnecessary choice — confrontation is necessary to win and coalition is necessary to effectively govern.
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Image courtesy of Local 33 Organizing the Neoliberal University
The essays in this issue begin to lay out a vision for a broad, coordinated, and powerful movement to reclaim the corporate university. Now it’s up to all of us to build it.
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Photo courtesy of the author Fighting for Mental Healthcare in the Ivory Tower
The crisis of mental health among graduate workers is neither inevitable nor insurmountable.
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Photo courtesy of the author A Higher Ed Agenda for the Common Good
It is time to re-imagine higher education to end the racialized inequities the current paradigm reinforces and to create more educational opportunities for all.
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Dave Adamson We Were All Exhausted: On the Natural Alliance between Football ‘Student-Athletes’ and Contingent Faculty
Contingent faculty and college football players are natural allies. They should join in a fight together for worker’s rights on campus.
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Image courtesy of Erin Markiewitz The Abolitionist Strike
Graduate employees at Michigan went on strike to demand a safe reopening and a university free of police. We talked with the union’s vice president about how they did it and what they learned.
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Fighting Neoliberal Universities in States without Bargaining Rights
UCW undermines neoliberal universities by bringing workers who are never meant to cross paths into conversation about how to fundamentally transform higher education.
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Image courtesy of the authors Digital Organizing against the Neoliberal University
Picking a fight with the university in the middle of a pandemic required AFSCME Council 3 to develop new digital tools to build its membership, develop a structure more responsive to workers’ concerns, strengthen coalitions, and fight back against the university.
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Image courtesy of the authors Contract Personalis: How Georgetown’s Graduate Workers Organized to Win
Georgetown Alliance of Graduate Employees won a collective bargaining agreement during the COVID-19 pandemic. Three strategies — resonant framing, centering members’ lived experiences, and solidarity from internal and external allies — were the core of their contract campaign.
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Image courtesy of Sam Klug Organizing at the Frontier of Higher Education
Julie Kushner on her decades-long career organizing university workers, her vision for building deep coalitions of students and workers, and why she thinks union organizers are “the best people.”