Articles
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Getty Images Florida, Florida, Florida!
An Interview with Andrea Cristina Mercado and Ivanna Gonzalez of Florida Rising
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Getty Images Political Polarization Is Pushing Evangelicals To A Historic Breaking Point
Christians are splitting with the religious right over Trump, COVID and Black Lives Matter, creating opportunities for those interested in social justice
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Images courtesy of Darren Namatovu Youth Activism in Uganda: An Interview with Darren Namatovu
“We are the new generation and we are rising for what we believe in and what is right.”
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Getty Images Letter to a Young Organizer #2
You are here to stir the pot. To take the crisis to those who created it. To transform hearts and minds on the way toward transforming how the whole thing works.
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Getty Images What does “grassroots” mean?
A review of Power Concedes Nothing
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Jandos Rothstein Laws That Create Countervailing Power
A roundtable discussion with Benjamin Sachs, Kate Andrias, and Steve Kest
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“Nobody’s coming to save any of us”: Lessons from grassroots power building in West Virginia
What grassroots organizing efforts in West Virginia can teach us about how to break free of extractive models of organizing and build real power that can lead to transformative change.
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Getty Images China’s Counter Community
Human connection and resistance in an authoritarian context
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Fall Organizers Writing Workshop
Applications are open for our fall writing workshop!
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On the Line: An Interview with Daisy Pitkin
The organizer and author Daisy Pitkin talks about the dynamics between staff organizers and members, personal and political risk-taking, institutional culture, and political struggle across a century of union fights in the US.
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Courtesy of the author The Case for Rupture
We cannot dismantle systems of racial monopoly capitalism merely through electoral power or base building alone. We need mass scaled action.
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Getty Images What’s Your Power Analysis?
In this series, veteran organizer Deepak Pateriya talks with organizers and movement leaders about the power analysis that guides their work, the power they’re trying to build and exercise, how it’s going, and how they know.
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An Interview with Doran Schrantz
This is the first piece in a new Forge series — <a href="/node/1227">What’s Your Power Analysis? </a>— in which veteran organizer Deepak Pateriya talks with organizers and movement leaders about the power analysis that guides their work, the power they’re trying to build and exercise, how it’s going, and how they know.
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Getty Images The Reflection Episode
In this bonus episode of Raci$m Is Profitable, former US Labor Secretary Robert Reich joins co-hosts Solana Rice and Jeremie Greer to look back at earlier episodes.
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Getty Images Practice, Practice, Practice
To build stronger movements, we need to build up our ambition, be strategic in our discipline, and lead with the process.
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ISAIAH’s Multiracial “House”
Executive Director Doran Schrantz went against the advice of non-profit manuals and decided to restructure the staff. How did she reimagine the organizational chart, thus enabling ISAIAH’s house to grow?
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Renewing the Lineage of Nonviolent Movement
A Review of Erica Chenoweth’s Civil Resistance: What Everyone Needs to Know
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photo credit: Getty Images Representation Is Not Enough: We Need Collective Governance
In this episode of Raci$m Is Profitable, Demos President Taifa Butler joins Solana Rice and Jeremie Greer to talk about governance.
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Photo courtesy of the Center for Popular Democracy “Who have we learned from? The people.”
Steve Kest talks with Stephanie Maldonado, Christina Livingston, Allison Brim, and Arlenis Morel about the importance of organizing basics like door knocking, listening, and leadership development in driving their organizations; what they’ve learned from older organizing traditions; and how they’ve adapted or changed those traditions to become more effective and powerful.
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Courtesy of the authors Organizing from Cambridge to Corrientes
When environmental justice organizers in Argentina partnered with Harvard students to fight Harvard Management Company, they learned several lessons about border-crossing organizing: the importance of identifying the real decision-makers and centering the demands of frontline communities.