Articles
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What I Learned About Organizing From My Sex Worker Grandmother
An adapted excerpt from Someday Mija, You’ll Learn the Difference Between a Whore and a Working Woman
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Koshu Kunii Los Angeles Is Creating a Model for Fighting Mass Incarceration
In the past five years, abolitionists and advocates of criminal justice reform in Los Angeles County have amassed some impressive victories—laying out a vision for reducing incarceration and providing care that could have national significance.
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Vying for Power
An excerpt from Working 9to5
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Getty Images The Schools Our Students Deserve
The UTLA and CTU fights for safer schools during COVID
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Courtesy of SEJ The Bridge Project: Reframing the Prevailing American Narrative for 2052
We are sharing the findings of this report with organizers, movement leaders, storytellers, and cultural influencers in the hope that you will help us imagine a future in which the prevalent story of American identity is untethered from white supremacy.
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Courtesy of the author. SEIU880 homecare and childcare providers demand raises and recognition, fall 1998 Amazon, Starbucks, And What it Means to Act Like A Union
By trusting workers and empowering them to act like a union, ALU and SBU are building power, moving their campaigns along, and creating a path to collective bargaining and better working conditions despite the hostile legal terrain and vicious employer-led anti-union campaigns.
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Carol M. Highsmith, Library of Congress When Four Students Sat In
Small actions with big plans can sometimes scale quickly
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Florida’s “Fractal” Shaped Alignment Group
In this article, we’ll look more closely at one shape — the fractal — through a case study of several progressive organizations in Florida that formed the StateWide Alignment Group (SWAG)
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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.