Articles
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Collective Breathing: Post-Election Grief, Organizing, and Surviving with a Disability
Copeland, a disabled organizer and former policy analyst details their experience facing the lack of care in movement strategy around surviving the current administration Trump won the presidential election. And since last November, I have been engaging in meditations and...
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Fear is How We Got Here: On the Zionist Grip on the American Jewish Psyche
Poet & Writer, Tamar Ashdot, parses through their family legacy to unpack to the legacy of fear that has led American Jewish communities to stay loyal to Zionism while others have rejected it. In early 2024, two major magazines, The...
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Justice Begins at Home: How Collective Governance Builds Movements That Can Withstand Anything
Executive Director of Bala Rising, Niloufar Khansari, brings their years of movement lawyer experience to unpack how we can bring collective governance into our daily lives. One evening in mid-2017, a client of mine called in tears: “ICE followed my...
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The Price of ‘Green Zionism’: Climate Justice and the Colonization of Palestine
A deep dive into the long-standing history of Green Zionism that is plaguing Palestine. A Lancet study reported that the actual estimated death toll in Gaza exceeds 180,000+ Palestinians, citing 96% of Palestinians in Gaza facing famine and thousands missing...
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Learning and Researching our Movement History
Maggie Corser and writer Derek Seidman delve into the power of movement research and its ongoing impact on campaign strategy throughout movement history We’re living through an intensification of crises around inequality, democracy, climate, and militarism. There is a lot...
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credit: Hungarian Prime Minister's Office I’m a Veteran Organizer From Hungary. Here Are My Lessons for the Trump Era.
Facing autocracy demands more than resistance—it requires us to understand the failures that brought it to power and to organize for a democracy that delivers for everyone.
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Why Women With Incarcerated Loved Ones Are Canvassing
For four weeks leading up to the Spring 2024 primary elections, Carla was a lead canvasser who knocked door after door, after door, asking Los Angeles residents one thing: do you support closing Men’s Central Jail—a notoriously inhumane and deadly...
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From Police Reform to Abolition: What We’ve Learned in the Last Five Years
Executive Director of the African American Roundtable in Milwaukee unpacks their journey from local reform work to a national focus on the prison abolition movement. In April 2014, I witnessed firsthand the ways that white fear, hate and systemic power...
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Palestine is at the Heart of the Fight Against Trump’s Fascism
In a final essay, Forge contributing editors reflect on how Palestine is the issue most critical to defeating Fascism in the upcoming administration Author Ta-Nehisi Coates has shown remarkable humility, vulnerability, and courage in recounting the evolution of his views...
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Young People and The Fight Against Fascism
Anthony Vidal Torres, Communications Director at Get Free explains why young generations are still the key to reshaping our country for the better. This article is a part of Left Out: The Missing Election narratives, a collection of unreported histories by publications...
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COVID, Palestine, Election 2024, and the Cult of Democratic Moderation
Vinay Krishnan, National Field Organizer at Popular Democracy unpacks the long standing pandemic denialism and lackluster moderation of the COVI-19 pandemic that still plagues in the current moment. This article is a part of Left Out: The Missing Election narratives, a collection...
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A Call for Unity in Unlikely Places
Lead strategists at Working Families Party and The Uncommitted Movement join together to discuss the shared values that led them to push the Democratic party further left. This article is a part of Left Out: The Missing Election narratives, a collection of...
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How Abortion Won in Arizona
Maria Esch, researcher for the Alternative Unionism Project at the Center for Work and Democracy dives deep into the local efforts to pass Proposition 139 in Arizona during the 2024 election. This article is a part of Left Out: The Missing...
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Solidarity Is Not a Transaction
Clarissa Brooks, Editor In Chief at The Forge unpacks the phenomenon of solidarity being misunderstood and corrects the record on the origins of the purpose of global solidarity efforts for marginalized people. This article is a part of Left Out: The...
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Gen Z Is Done with Dems’ Bullshit
Delaney Vandergrift, social impact strategist at Southern Vision Alliance details the failings of the Democratic Party and it’s failure to show up for young people. This article is a part of Left Out: The Missing Election narratives, a collection of unreported histories...
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Welcome to the Margins
This article is a part of Left Out: The Missing Election narratives, a collection of unreported histories by publications inside of the Movement Media Alliance. In the spirit of collaboration that these times demand, In These Times, The Forge, Convergence and The...
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Credit: Need More People Power in Times of Crisis? Run Mass Trainings
For movements trying to harness the energy that emerges during political upheavals, mass training provides a crucial means to develop leadership and bring in new participants.
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Credit: napolim Resisting Authoritarianism: Lessons from Arkansas
Bill Kopsky, executive director of Arkansas Public Policy Panel, argues for a multiracial organizing revival and bold ideas to overcome the divisiveness of a second Trump presidency and make progress on the core challenges facing Americans.
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A young Kwame Ture attempted to influence the organization but was stifled by the CIA. Credit: Leni Sinclair How We’re Rebuilding the Nation’s Largest Student Organization
For over seven decades, the U.S. Student Association represented millions of students, weathered challenges like CIA infiltration, and championed civil rights and free higher education. Learn how this organization was built in the 1940s and why a new generation is rebuilding it today.
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Credit: Peg Hunter, flickr Lessons for the Long Fight from Jewish Voice for Peace
Two former staff leaders of JVP reflect on what it looks like to build a durable institution capable of winning long-term governing power while remaining agile in moments of crisis.