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More Popular Than Trump and Biden. How $15 Won in Florida
Kofi Hunt talks about what it took to build a coalition that delivered real change for working families in Florida.
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Getty Images The Amazon Loss & What We Owe Each Other in the Labor Movement
Bessemer is the latest, highly-visible example of one of the American labor movement’s prime weaknesses: the lack of systems or mechanisms that allow information, strategy decisions, and lessons learned to be shared across the movement.
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Images courtesy of Keith Kelleher Fast Food Fight
The early fight to organize Detroit’s fast food workers
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The All-Nite Images https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en The Fight for $15
Unprecedented organizing has helped build worker power and raise wages for millions of workers over the past decade. What can we learn from the Fight for $15, and what is still left to be done?
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Getty Images The Fight for $15: Past, Present, and Future
In the months and years ahead, the movement must continue pressing for a federal minimum wage increase for all workers — and for legislation that will make it easier to build fighting unions to empower workers in the long term.
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A McJobs Economy
An excerpt from Poor Workers' Unions
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Getty Images It’s Time for Labor to Embrace Antimonopoly
We need both movements if we are to democratize our economy and protect it from corporate power.
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Courtesy of Jennifer E. Cossyleon Healing from Carceral Oppression
Given the legacy of women of color as the backbone for racial justice movements, it is no surprise they are leading the movement to abolish our carceral society and to collectively heal from centuries of oppression.
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Courtesy of Mike Gallagher Best Action Ever
Or, the Hunter Gets Captured by the Game
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Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University Organizing 9to5
A conversation with two leaders of the 9to5 movement
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Courtesy of Alicia Garza The Purpose of Power
Solana Rice talks with Alicia Garza about how our movements build power, the role of social media in organizing, and why Black communities need their own spaces to get organized.
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Photo by, Can Candan An Uprising for a Democratic University in Turkey
Boğaziçi professor Taylan Acar talks about organizing for the resistance at the Turkish university — and what U.S. labor organizers can learn from their struggle.
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Courtesy of Siembra Five Lessons From the Past Four Years
If campaign organizing is a series of peaks and valleys, 2021 has already brought many of us vertigo.
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Getty Images The Left Needs to Engage Members if We Want to Win Big
Too often, leaders magnify the voices of a very small group of members, if they even cite members’ views. This reality reflects significant weaknesses in unions and their organizing practices, and illustrates how shallow and limited our understanding of democracy is.
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Library of Congress To Build a New World
An excerpt of Seeing Like an Activist
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Getty Images Healing in the Post-Trump Era Is Necessary Work
The Trump years have had a deep impact on everyone’s mental health. What has it done to those of us who had the responsibility for stopping him?
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Courtesy of the author Fighting Austerity One Voter At a Time
Lessons from the fight to tax the rich in Illinois
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Courtesy of Cristina Jiménez Moreta Debriefing the Resistance
We must be unapologetic about our vision for this country and inspire millions to dream with us about building a new story and a new country where all of us live with dignity and thrive.
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Courtesy of Luisa Boyarski Harnessing Virginia’s Grassroots Resistance
Our coalition model helped channel grassroots energy into effective political organizing.
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Courtesy of Nikil Saval Lessons from the Campaign Trail
Nikil Saval on organizing for his own campaign, why he believes progressives need to engage in party building, and the lessons he’s learned about how to build power over the past four years.