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  Addressing Unanchored Care: An Experiment in Developing Resilient Movement Organizations

  The concept of "Resilient Futures" is introduced, a program designed to empower organizers and directors of Black, Brown, and Asian organizations, focusing on personal and professional well-being to sustain collective resistance.

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  , and Ben Chin

  Nuts and Bolts for Building Resilient Organizations

  Organizers discuss practical ways to deal with the challenges of non-profit culture.

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  Democracy’s Antidote to Authoritarianism: An Organizing Revival

  To defeat the rising tide of authoritarianism, organizations that are part of a pro-democracy movement must reground ourselves in relational, transformational, power-based community organizing

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  Winning White People to the Fight Against the MAGA Right

  To address the challenges our movements face in this time, we need to name white resentment as the fuel for the Right’s dramatic rise –– and offer white people a better option.

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  Don’t Let the Chain of Freedom Break at Your Link

  The last 45 years have seen the consolidation of the far Right — while “many white liberals have been so eager to put the ideology of white supremacy behind them that they declare it prematurely dead over and over again.”

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  Lauren Jacobs and Stacy Mitchell

  Reining In Amazon to Build Up People-Powered Democracy

  In preparation for the The 22nd Century Conference happening in Minneapolis, MN from July 6-9, leaders of the Athena Coalition, an organization created to tackle the growing global power of Amazon, explain why their work is important in the face of pressure from both corporations and the anti-corporate populists who aim to misdirect working people. 

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  To Build a Movement for Democracy, We Have to Win the Internet

  In Preparation for the The 22nd Century Conference happening in Minneapolis, MN from July 6-9, 2023, Mariana Ruiz Firmat argues that pro-democracy organizers must treat the digital realm as a serious terrain of struggle and develop a near term strategy to seize the internet from tech libertarians and white nationalists.

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  Finding Liberation and Belonging in Lessons from the Past

  Black Muslim women in the United States, escpecially in Southern States, face unique discrimination due to intersecting marginalized identities. Organizers are making an intentional effort to make sure they're included in the national conversation around safety.

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  Deepak Pateriya

  A Sacred Trust: Being A Paid Staff Person of a Base Organization

  The tensions Maurice Mitchell highlights in ‘Building Resilient Organizations’ operate differently in base organizations. The solutions will be different, too.

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  James James Mumm and

  Toward a People-Powered Democracy

  The 22nd Century Conference will bring together the pro-democracy movement to plan what it looks like to block the rise of the authoritarian movement while also advancing pro-democracy strategies. 

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  Sandra Hinson

  What Does It Look Like When We Build Our Power and Fight the Right?

  Four organizing leaders talk about unity and struggle with centrist allies, building our progressive and left alignment, and what can stand in the way.

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  Mark Engler and Paul Engler

  Lessons from Barcelona’s 8-Year Experiment in Radical Governance

  The activists who took over the city hall of Catalonia’s capital have changed one of Europe’s preeminent cities for good, while also confronting the limits of being in power. 

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  Keith Kelleher

  “They Go Low, We Go Deep”

  This is a problem organizers and organizations confront every time they elect an ally to office: How can labor, community, and other peoples’ organizations keep politicians to their commitments after the election?  Here’s how we did it.

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  Hot Labor Summer

  This summer’s labor fights are an important opportunity for an increasingly militant labor movement to win critical battles. 

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  How a Black Led Corporate Accountability Campaign Is Winning in Detroit

  Highlights of the successes of a corporate accountability campaign led by black grassroots organizations in holding corporations accountable for their actions and addressing systemic racial injustices.

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  Deepak Pateriya

  Back to Where It All Began

  An interview with Anthony Thigpenn & Sabrina Smith of California Calls

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  How (Not) to Dismantle White Supremacy

  Is the fixation on naming "white supremacy culture"  overtaking the fight against white supremacy?   

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  The Case for Expanding Democracy Work

  Aditi Juneja argues that national issue-based organizations, pro-democracy organizations, and funders should expand their work to support grassroots organizers and create a long-term vision for a movement for a more democratic country.

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  Something Old, Something New: The Arc of Organizational Resilience

  Kim Fellner draws on her experience with the National Organizers Alliance to look at the persistence—and shifts—of the challenges movement organizations face.

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  Mark Engler and Paul Engler

  Can movements keep politicians from inevitably selling out?

  By understanding how mainstream political culture co-opts elected officials, grassroots groups can help them resist.