Articles
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“Cori is the right candidate for exactly the right time”
The lead organizer on the Cori Bush campaign talks about how the campaign coped with COVID, what they did to challenge voter suppression, and what Bush’s victory means for progressive politics in Missouri and beyond.
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Unions and Race: “I don’t think we have time to be tame anymore.”
Jake Grumbach on the effects of unions on white racial politics
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Image courtesy of Barbara Helmick From Fringe to Winnable: The Campaign for DC Statehood
Long considered a long-shot local issue, DC statehood is now a winnable campaign. Barbara Helmick tells the story of how changing the narrative allowed organizers to build the coalition they need to win.
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Connecting beyond the height of emergency
Community defense is about organizing for long term security not just immediate crisis
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Tackling the Other Public Health Pandemic
COVID-19 and structural racism as intersecting pandemics — which makes the debut of From Enforcers to Guardians: A Public Health Primer on Ending Police Violence right on time.
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Q&A with Zakiyah Ansari
The longtime education organizer discusses advocacy, hope, and the current movement
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Courtesy of Charles Khan Organizing During the Apocalypse
Through all of the darkness that this year has brought, we are closer than ever to achieving justice.
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“The Center Has Shifted”
We sat down with veteran organizers to talk about their strategies during the uprisings, their ongoing coalition-building work, and how they’re building spaces for Black people to collaborate, heal, and challenge the system.
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Max Bender Editor’s Note: Organizing, Innovation, and Upheaval
Racial justice organizers are innovating organizing tactics and strategies during the pandemic and the uprisings. In this series, we examine some of the innovations in organizing happening this summer.
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Chris Grafton The History of the DC Statehood Movement
A historian of the capital city on the history of voter suppression in DC, the challenges of organizing for statehood, and why winning might be possible now.
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Joshua Earle Organizing in the Belly of the Beast
The District of Columbia has a long and venerable history of local organizing that offers important lessons for how to push for change at the local level, take on powerful interests, and challenge an entrenched political establishment.
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Koshu Kunii Building a Socialist DC
Two Metro DC DSA organizers on the group’s electoral campaigning, the challenges of organizing during COVID, and their vision for a more just DC.
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Koshu Kunii Black Lives Matter Equals Defund the Police.
Lessons from the whirlwind.
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Janeese Lewis George Campaign Build the Movement. Elect Bold Leaders. Repeat.
A socialist candidate’s upset Council victory offers clear lessons for the left on how to organize and movement build during the pandemic.
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Leslie Cross Fighting for a Bold, Progressive Agenda in DC
Activists in the District of Columbia are building support for statehood while fighting to advance a progressive agenda and holding their own elected officials to account.
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Janeese Lewis George Campaign To Win, We Need to Do Things Differently.
Movement building and risk taking are key to winning insurgent electoral campaigns.
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Bringing Bernie 2020 Organizing Tools to the Workplace
The Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee, a project born out of a partnership between the United Electrical Workers (UE) and the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), is taking the lessons learned from the Bernie 2020 campaign into workplace organizing.
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Clay Banks Reclaiming Rhode Island in a Movement Moment
Bernie volunteers in Rhode Island are turning their presidential campaign operation into a statewide leftist organization. In the process, they’re learning to connect their socialist principles to the demand to Defund the Police.
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We Don’t Know What We’re Doing
Two new books on how to strengthen the labor movement end up showing something very different — that we don’t know why or how unions succeed or fail, and we don’t have any clear sense of how to do better.
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Library of Congress How Phyllis Schlafly Found The Right Balance of Racism and Misogyny and Charted the Future of the Radical Right
An excerpt from The Lie That Binds, a new political history of how the radical right used abortion to gain power and hijak the Republican Party.