Articles
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Photo by Clay Banks Here We Go Again: Philanthropy & Movement Capture
Last summer’s protests have exposed a gilded philanthropy wholly out of step with the causes it purports to support and lacking in imagination about how to cede power to support Black-led movements.
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Getty Images Navigating Philanthropy
Gara LaMarche talks with Jee Kim, Urvashi Vaid, and Bill Vandenberg — activists and organizers who went on to work in key positions in philanthropy — about their experiences navigating the philanthropic sector, what needs to change to shift the balance of power toward organizers, and the relationship between philanthropy and organizing today.
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Photo by Nadia Normotova, Getty Images Philanthropy and Organizing: My Journey
This edition of The Forge examines the relationship between philanthropy and organizing — sometimes distant, sometimes fractious, sometimes constructive, but always deserving of scrutiny.
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Getty Images Organizing the Foundation Board
Cecilia Muñoz and Cecile Richards talk about their experiences sitting on foundation boards, how philanthropy’s relationship to organizing is shifting, and the most promising innovations they’re seeing in the field right now.
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Photo courtesy of Rights and Democracy Fighting the GOP’s War on Democracy
How did an emerging national conversation about race — a conversation that a majority of Americans in 2020 said they wanted to have — become hijacked by an attack on a field called critical race theory?
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Photo from: Library of Congress Dying With Our Boots On
Lessons from Daniel Berrigan as we push Biden
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Image courtesy of MPD150 Enough Is Enough
The Minneapolis collective MPD150’s abolitionist report and toolkit
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Photo by: Nancy Musinguzi Community Safety in Tumultuous Times
The work of addressing harm, violence, conflict, and abuse is central to building trust and maintaining alignment among abolitionist organizers.
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Photo by Nancy Musinguzi Sacred Silliness as a Freedom Practice
Laugh big, laugh loud, laugh often.
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Photo by Mike Von What’s Being Said But Remains Unheard?
We asked all of the organizers we interviewed a simple question: what do they keep saying or hearing that is not breaking through? Here’s what they said.
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Photo by Ehimetalor Akhere The Challenge to Our Movements
A conversation with Barbara Ransby
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Photo by Taymaz Valley WikiCommons “It is our duty to fight for our freedom”
Kayla Reed on the relationship between movements and organizations, how money complicates the work, and our duty to win.
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Photo by Elvert Barnes WikiCommons “Doing care with each other is how we’ll unite”
Makia Green talks about mutual aid, the relationship between organizing and care work, and how to build a bigger “we.”
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Photo by Mike Von Living in Abundance
Tracey Corder talks about the cultural and narrative work that needs to happen to make abolition possible — and what it would look like to live in a society rooted in abundance and care.
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Photo by Cameron Venti “Now is the time to start to live it”
Syrus Marcus Ware and Dara Baldwin on the long struggle for abolition, the centrality of disability justice to the movement, and their vision for building safe communities.
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Photo by Nancy Musinguzi Police-Free Childhoods
Darnel Joseph and Kesi Foster talk about their work organizing young people around police and prison abolition.
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Photo by Oriscilla Gyamfi The Uprisings: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
This is an intergenerational collection of writers and organizers, movement and world builders, soul stirrers and table shakers, healers and the still healing.
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Photo by Mike Shaheen WikiCommons Fighting for the Right to Protest
Simon Adams of the Dream Defenders breaks down what Florida’s new law restricting the right to protest means for organizers in the state, and why community is critical in this fight.
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Photo by Bach Nguyen Practicing Imagination
Mariame Kaba talks about how her work has changed over the last year, why she writes, and how she keeps visioning at the forefront of her organizing practice.
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Photo by Jonathan Muriu “No one person can transform a system”
Maurice Mitchell and Rukia Lumumba on what co-governance means, the relationship between elected officials and movements, and how we build decision-making processes rooted in community.