Articles
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Wikimedia Commons Bet on Institution Building, Not Manchin
A case for building movement infrastructure in the times we feel at sea
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Getty Images An End to the Housing Market as We Know It
A conversation with Meg Daly, René Moya, B. Rosas, and Cea Weaver about the path to decommodifying housing, the false promise of increasing housing supply, and what the recent victory in Saint Paul means for the future of tenant organizing in the city — and across the country.
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photo credit: Getty Images Work Is Not Worth
A conversation with Lauren Jacobs
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photo by, Mykyta Dolmatov Collaborative Governance: How We Build Power Together
Philadelphia City Council Member Helen Gym, former Gainesville City Commissioner Gail Johnson, State Innovation Exchange Co-Executive Director Jessie Ulibarri, and Texas Organizing Project Strategy Director Crystal Zermeno discuss best practices, identify promising strategies, and highlight lessons from their on-the-ground experiences with co-governance in the U.S.
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Getty Images Should we disrupt the Democratic Party or try to take it over?
How movements settle the debate on whether to engage with political parties from the inside or outside will have a profound impact on their effectiveness.
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Thirdson Photography and Benedict Pawa From #EndSARS to Pan-African Solidarity
Lessons from an intergenerational and transnational movement against state violence
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Photo courtesy of the authors Young People Are Overcoming Political Polarization
How “non-partisan” youth movements in Bangladesh are driving social change
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Photo courtesy of the author “We are the Ones That Have the Power”: A Conversation with Grace Gondwe
A conversation with Grace Gondwe about youth political participation and transformation in Zambia
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Thirdson Photography and Benedict Pawa Democracy Moves: Youth Activism Through a Global Lens
This series brings together youth organizers from around the world.
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Photo by Colin Lloyd To Tackle Racial Justice, Organizing Must Change
Racial justice is increasingly embraced across our movements, but the strategic work to live up to that vision is still all too lacking.
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Photo by Gage Skidmore for Arizona Education Association Yes, Social Media Can Help With Real-World Organizing
We can’t change the world just by posting on social media. But as the 2018 red state teachers strikes show, if organizers make strategic choices about their online organizing, social media can be used to build mass, militant actions like strikes.
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Photo courtesy of New Virginia Majority Lessons from the Virginia Election
Mat Hanson talks with Alexsis Rodgers, the State Director for Care in Action; David Broder, President of SEIU Virginia 512; Maya Castillo, Political Director for the New Virginia Majority; and Luis Aguilar, State Director for CASA in Action about the lessons they’re drawing from the election.
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Katie Rodriguez The Hard Truth Behind Rigorous Organizing
We must let go of the idea that success in organizing is determined by the amount that we do rather than the power we build and the practices and culture we create in the process.
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Getty Images New York City Taxi Drivers Went on a Hunger Strike — and Won
We sat down with New York State Assembly Member Zohran Mamdani to talk about why he joined the hunger strike, the value of an inside/outside strategy, and what’s next for the taxi drivers.
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Getty Images Building Prisms of Power, Not Sandcastles that Get Washed Away Each Election
What the current debate over Democratic strategy leaves out: why groups that invest in long-term constituency organizing win
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Image courtesy of the author Building Structure Shapes
This report offers a framework and vocabulary that can support movement leaders in deepening their structuring capacity in times of organizational challenge.
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Image courtesy of the author The NY Working Families Party’s “Stool”
This article looks at one shape — the stool — through a case study of the New York Working Families Party.
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Getty Images Being the First
Irene Godínez and Danielle Walker on what it’s like to be the first BIPOC women in their positions, what’s allowed them to succeed, and what supports are still missing.
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Image courtesy of the author Tenants took on the biggest landlord in Minneapolis — and won.
Working together, tenants can offer viable solutions to the housing crisis and a blueprint for collective governance.
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Getty Images How We Won New Taxes on the Rich in New York
We used an inside-outside strategy to shift the balance of power.