Articles
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Credit: Josh Yoder, Look Loud Can Culture Build Power?
Get a behind the scenes at Look Loud, a cultural organization leveling up protests everywhere with beautiful, intentional, and powerful art.
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Credit:Jennifer Epps-Addison Reflection on the Power to Win Report: Organizing for a Just Future
Lifelong organizer Jennifer Epps-Addison shares crucial lessons on power and gives us a glimpse behind the Power to Win report and what she and hundreds of other organizers are thinking.
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Credit: rudall30 Provoke. Legitimize. Win. A Review of The Guarantee
A review of Natalie Foster's new "hopepunk" book that challenges right and leftwing cynicism with a clear-eyed vision for a beautiful future we may already be moving toward.
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Camp Casey Anti-Iraq War Protest | Carolmooredc, Wikimedia Commons How to Make Sure Your Disruptive Protest Helps Your Cause
Learn about the five factors that will influence whether a polarizing protest will strengthen your movement or potentially undermine it. Part 2 on polarization from Mark Engler and Paul Engler.
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Diana Ludwig A Departed Labor “Saint” Offers Vital Insights for This Moment
Staughton Lynd, worker-led unionism, and the total rejection of restraints on it.
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iStock: mactrunk Movement Media Organizations Are Uniting to Build Power
Fourteen values-aligned organizations have formed the Movement Media Alliance, a new coalition of social justice-driven journalism platforms aimed at building power, sharing resources, and transforming the news.
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Woolsworth Lunch Counter Sit-in, State Archives of North Carolina Why Protests Work, Even When Not Everybody Likes Them
First in a two-part series explaining protests and polarization. This first part breaks down why protests can be polarizing and how movements can win in moments of polarization, the second part covers what factors determine if a polarizing action will be successful.
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iStock: Jacob Wackerhausen Four Things We Need to Build Power
The Forge Interviews Anthony Thigpenn, a community organizer with over three decades of experience, about what it would take to achieve true victory in this political moment. Part of our Power To Win report with The Action Lab and the Initiative for Community Power at NYU.
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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.