Articles
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iStock How To Build the Power To Win
The Power to Win report interviewed and surveyed close to 300 organizers about what power is, what it isn’t, and whether we have it. Learn more about their insights here.
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iStock: Karimphoto Mass Protest and the Missing Revolution: Interview
Andrew Friedman interviews Vincent Bevins, author of The Jakarta Method and If We Burn, which traces the “missing revolution” that followed years of mass protest in the 2010s.
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How to Build a New World, Locally
Using Chicago's model of volunteer precinct captains can help win elections, rebuild our sense of community, and birth a world worthy of the mass social movements of the 21st century.
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How Progressive Organizers Can Build Healthier, More Effective Coalitions for Climate Action
Coalition work depends on trust and clarity—here's the blueprint to get there.
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Montecuz Foto Ferguson, Palestine and “The Most Important Election of Our Lifetime”
Montague Simmons, Director of Strategic Partnerships for the Movement for Black Lives, explores the transformed terrain that organizers must navigate this election season.
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Kurt Bauschardt Pinkwashing 101: How Israel Turned Gay Pride into an Occasion for Oppression
Rami Kablawi breaks down how Israel weaponizes Pride to oppress Palestinians, and how you can help resist it.
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iStock Trans Liberation and Palestine
Shelby Chestnut, executive director of the Transgender Law Center, explains how trans liberation is inherently anti-colonial and inseparable from the struggle for Palestinian freedom.
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Montecruz Foto Black Feminist Reflections on Palestine Liberation
Barbara Ransby charts the relationship between Black feminist organizing and the movement for a Free Palestine, and provides a poem in solidarity with the people of Gaza.
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Rainalee111 Will the Revolution Be Funded?
Organizers and researchers Zac Chapman and Nairuti Shastry examine how movements can build power by working within, without, and against philanthropy.
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Adam Jones From the Traumas of America to the Shores of Africa: A Journey of Self-Healing
Brandon Sturdivant of Mass Liberation Project argues that addressing personal trauma can help transform the work and lives of Black organizers, and make systemic change all the more possible.
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ULU Local 880 Organizing One of the Largest Black Led Unions in the United States
A follow-up to “How Four Black Women Changed Labor Organizing Forever”, this article captures the contract fight that followed and the genius and fortitude required to create one of the most important unions in U.S. history.
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Intervening on Activist Tendencies
Learn from Ingrid Lakey how a group of Quakers created a purpose-built organization that forced change at the country's sixth-largest bank.
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Andrew Ratto via Wikimedia Commons How to Support Palestinians? Boycott, Divest from, and Sanction Israel
Sumaya Awad of the Adalah Justice Project explains BDS, its urgency, and why it is essential for ending Israel’s policies of genocide and apartheid.
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Mx. Granger via Wikimedia Commons Dissenters and the Student Movement for Palestine
Brianna Gibson of the BlackOUT Collective interviews Sidney Miralao from Dissenters, an anti-imperial youth organization playing an important role in the student movement for a free Palestine. Learn what’s happening on the ground and how this political moment is creating a new generation of disciplined leaders.
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kimsilverstein.com How The Fight for a Free Palestine is Changing Organizing
Arielle Klagsbrun of the Action Center on Race and Economy breaks down how the movement for a free Palestine has adopted and transformed the affinity group model of mass movement organizing.
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A Campaign Against Transgender Discrimination Pivots After Getting Stuck
Learn from Nico Amador, Director of the Leadership Institute at CenterLink—an international member network of LGBT Centers—about how campaigns can pivot to create more favorable conditions.
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iStock How Labor Can Fight Fascism
Bill Fletcher Jr., long-time labor and racial justice organizer, interviews Paul Ortiz, of the United Faculty of Florida, about the growing fascist movement and how unions can be a critical force in fighting the likes of Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump.
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Cutting an Issue to Defend Black Voters in Michigan
Learn how Byron Hobbs and Jonathan Hogstad of Community Change/Action and the Defend Black Voters Coalition creatively targeted utility companies and health insurers as part of their strategy to combat voter suppression in Michigan.
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YDS How We Rebuilt the Young Democratic Socialists
A history of the late 2000s youth section of the Democratic Socialists of America and how they used lessons from Mao and contemporary labor to reevaluate their conditions and build a winning strategy.
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iStock Lesson From the UK: How To Scale Community Organizing in Moments of Crisis
George Gabriel reflects on the British Refugees Welcome movement, which helped bring tens of thousands of Syrians to the UK, and how a system of incubating and cascading created the local and national capacity necessary for the victory.