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Getty Images “We knew that no normal NLRB election would work”
Gene Bruskin on what organizers fighting megacorporations today can learn from the campaign at Smithfield
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Fibonacci Blue More Important Than the Right Answer
As a seasoned organizer confronting new conditions, I invite others to join me in embracing the freedom of admitting our uncertainty.
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BP Miller Organizing Megacorporations: Building a Movement for the 21st Century
The question of how to organize megacorporations is urgent for everyone who works for justice.
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Photo by, Mateo Oi Lessons from a renewed student movement in Italy
Short-term failures can lay the groundwork for long-term success.
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Photo by, Stephen Hosey Challenging the Language of Power Onstage
Glaswegian youth act for just climate policy
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photo by, Maksim Sokolov (Maxergon) What the US can learn from Canadian activists who blocked truck convoys
As the trucker convoy makes its way to Washington, Canadian blockades offer lessons on how to stop far-right occupations in their tracks.
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photo credit: Getty Images What to Do When the World Is Ending
So what do we do when the world is ending? The same things that so many of the giants on whose shoulders we stand did when their worlds were ending. We choose to face our despair — to walk towards it and through it —choose to take action, choose to build movements. We do it because we don’t know how it ends, because there are possibilities out there that we simply can’t see from here.
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Getty Images Ukraine doesn’t need to match Russia’s military might to defend against invasion
Throughout history, people facing occupation have tapped into the power of nonviolent struggle to thwart their invaders.
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Photo by Amaury Laporte, Wiki Commons It’s time to take inspiration from Ukraine and double down on global democratic solidarity
As courageous Ukrainians and Russian antiwar protesters resist Putin’s brutal war, we can do far more to support pro-democracy activists and movements.
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Getty Images Building Power with Popular Education
Popular education is essential to building an equitable future — especially for base-building organizations.
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photo credit: Getty Images Toxic Individualism Ain’t It
On episode three of Raci$m Is Profitable, Solana Rice and Jeremie Greer talk about personal responsibility — the idea that if your money's not right, it's because you're doing something wrong.
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Getty Images The Lost Art of Listening for Issues
Let’s move from funding organizations to mobilize, and instead allow the space to organize.
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Hope in an Unlikely Place
A review of A Field Guide to White Supremacy
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Author courtesy of Aline López Participatory Budgeting in Mexico: An Interview with Aline López
Aline Yunery Zunzunegui López talks about changing Mexican political culture through participatory budgeting.
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Image courtesy of the authors Community Care is the Language of Peace
It is radical to care in societies in which inequality is the norm and marginalized communities are stripped of their humanity.
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Image courtesy of Caryn Dasah Young Women’s Peace Activism in Cameroon: An Interview with Caryn Oyo Dasah
Peace activist Caryn Dasah on why lasting solutions will only come when women and girls directly affected by armed conflict are part of the decision-making about how to resolve the crisis.
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photo credit: Getty Images Whose Money? Our Money.
A conversation with Demond Drummer
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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