Articles
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For UNITE HERE’s Hospitality Workers, Democracy Is Essential Work
In the year of COVID-19, no one thought that door-to-door canvassing could be done. Union housekeepers, cooks, and casino workers proved them wrong.
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Rural Margins Matter
Rural voters made the difference for Joe Biden in key states this year. And if Democrats hope to control the Senate in 2022 and 2024, the vote in small cities and rural areas will be critical.
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2020 Elections: Taking Stock
Some of the best electoral organizers come together to take stock of the 2020 U.S. elections and chart the path forward.
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Organizing Strategies to Fight Corporate Power
For forty years, corporate consolidation has grown without any significant government intervention to stop it. Organizers must use a diverse set of strategies to upend the prevailing economic orthodoxy and redefine consumer harm.
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How do I engage new members?
Trying to up your digital game during COVID? Our columnists are here to help with all your digital dilemmas.
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Emiliano Bar White Feminism Promotes Mass Incarceration
A review of Aya Graber’s The Feminist War on Crime
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The Ups and Downs of New Voices in the Movement
Ben Chin talks with Nelini Stamp, James Haslam, Arleen Vargas, and Kendall Mackey about the influx of white, upwardly-mobile activists in the movement during the Trump years.
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Keeping Bottom-Up Democracy Strong
Ben Chin talks with Nelini Stamp, James Haslam, Arleen Vargas, and Kendall Mackey about how they're keeping bottom-up democracy strong as their organizations grow in size and power.
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What is Power?
Ben Chin talks with Nelini Stamp, James Haslam, Arleen Vargas, and Kendall Mackey about how their understanding of power has changed since they started organizing and what shifted their perspective.
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Photo by Gabriel Benois In the Time of COVID, Digital Organizing is a Must
Digital and social media are not new to campaigns, but in the time of COVID, they are more important than ever.
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How rural organizers are building community connections and power
A report on racial justice oragnizing in rural America today
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Photo by Walter Sturn Digital Organizing in Rural America
Rural Utah Project organizers discuss the challenges of digital organizing in a rural context, the importance of cultural competency in rural organizing, and how to build on this organizing in 2021.
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How Rural Immigrant Communities Led the COVID Response
Immigrant workers at meatpacking plants are organizing to ensure no one is taken advantage of — and to hold employers accountable.
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Image courtesy of the Rural Utah Project Registering Voters on the Navajo Nation
Over the last two years, the Rural Utah Project has encountered a number of challenges in registering rural voters in the Navajo Nation: lack of internet access, no physical addresses, and hard-to-reach households. Nothing could have prepared us, however, for the challenges of COVID.
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Organizing in Rural America
This issue tells the stories of the diverse and inspiring organizing taking place in rural communities across the country. From West Virginia to Utah, from main street to mobile home courts, we’ll hear how organizing in small towns works and how leaders and organizers sustain themselves.
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Photo courtesy of Cal Bryant Power to the People: Organizing Rural Electric Cooperatives
A conversation with the organizers who work at the intersections of economic and racial justice to build democratic participation in energy companies that are owned by the people they serve.
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Photo by Spencer Davis Organizing Rural Manufacturing Workers Matters
Organizing campaigns that focus on rural manufacturing workers can play an important role in tackling economic inequality, systemic racism, and gender inequality — and sow the seeds of significant social and political change.
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Image courtesy of MHAction Rural Women Fight Back Against Wall Street Land Grab
Multi-racial, women-led teams of manufactured home residents are taking on predatory corporate owners and building progressive power in rural and exurban areas
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Images courtesy of the authors Indivisible Rural Resistance: Stories from the Field
Indivisible’s rural group leaders organize in some of the most remote and difficult places in the United States. This piece honors their resilience, grit, and ingenuity.
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We Have to Talk About Race in Rural America
Four rural organizers on their campaigns to mobilize a base of multiracial voters and change the narrative about race and government in rural America