Articles
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Hasbara v Irreplaceable
As Israel’s genocide in Gaza rages for two years, this is how propaganda warps U.S. media and our conscience, and how we must fight back. Two years of bearing witness to Palestinians’ genocide raises the moral question that lies at...
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Rebuilding Our Narrative Home: A Movement’s Journey Through the Immigration Divide
This article argues that to counter the well-funded, agile anti-immigrant narrative, the immigrant justice movement must fundamentally overhaul its own fractured infrastructure, abandon siloed “messaging” for a cohesive “narrative surround-sound,” and build the collective power to shift national consciousness. This...
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The Summer Everybody Wanted to be Puerto Rican: Cultural Strategy for Decolonial Narrative Power
Despite colonial policies pushing Puerto Ricans out, this article chronicles how organizers are fighting back by fusing mutual aid, political campaigns, and cultural joy into a powerful, people-led narrative: that privatization has failed and the archipelago’s future belongs to its...
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What We’ve Learned from State Organizers Building Narrative Power
By showcasing victories in Tennessee and Florida, this piece offers a concrete blueprint for building narrative power, showing that the antidote to fascist distraction is seizing the moral high ground and making narrative “everybody’s job” within a coalition. In 2018,...
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Death of the Messenger
As Israel kills the storytellers of Gaza, this article is a powerful call for global witnesses to pick up the pen, reclaim narrative power, and become the collective keepers of a truth that empires are trying to erase. More than...
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Invitation to 21st-century Orators, Griots, Futurists
In the face of fascism’s “death cult,” radical communicators must forge a powerful “narrative solidarity,” using shared grief and belonging to build bridges and win. Ase! In West African traditions, ase means “and so it is.” It is “the power...
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Looking Forward: Narrative Power Today for a Radical Tomorrow
To stop losing the story to authoritarians, the Left must stop treating comms as an afterthought and start building a shared narrative infrastructure—here’s the radical strategy to do it. Right now, we have an opportunity to define a compelling story...
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Philanthropy’s Mandate to Divest from Genocide in Palestine and Beyond
Philanthropy’s urgent mandate to divest from genocide, occupation, and systemic oppression is powerfully underscored by the launch of the Funding Freedom toolkit, which calls for funders to fulfill their moral responsibilities. Philanthropy wields enormous power—rooted in vast accumulations of wealth...
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How #TeslaTakedown Combined Centralization and Decentralization to Fight Authoritarianism
The TeslaTakedown campaign exemplifies how we can build meaningful structures that allow for strategic spontaneity and mass participation. Historians are going to have hundreds of stories of how people eventually eliminated the MAGA regime. While we’re still living in...
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How Do We Break Out Of The Loop We Find Ourselves In?
Future Currents’ report Forging Through the Fire outlines the biggest challenges we are facing as a field, and more importantly, offers interventions, ideas for innovation and evolution, and experiments for us to pursue together. This is the question that Future...
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Photo credit: Alonso Hernandez Three Co-Governance Lessons for Organizers
Elected champions need more than votes, they need organizers at their side, pushing, strategizing, and holding them accountable. That’s how you turn campaign promises into policy. On my first day as a council staffer, I walked into Oakland City Hall...
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How the First Amendment of the Internet Underpins Modern Activist Movements
Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act has drawn the ire of Democrats for years—but without it, decentralized mass protest would be near-impossible. The US protest movements of 2025 will be characterized as broad efforts across cities and states to...
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What We’ve Cultivated Still Remains: Black Home, Black Memory, and Collective Resilience in a Burning World
The same systemic forces that steal Black communities’ cultural harvest are being met with an unbreakable resilience, as neighbors build solidarity networks, reclaim land, and seed a future where their culture can thrive. At the start of this year...
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As Climate Collapse Inches Closer, The Tenant Union Is The Best Chance We’ve Got
The hallways of apartment buildings have become a new front in the climate fight, where tenant unions are battling for survival against the twin threats of negligent landlords and rising heat. Kansas City was hot and humid this summer,...
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Solidarity is the Solution
The same public subsidies that fund Memphis’s slumlords now bankroll Elon Musk’s pollution, revealing a single, profitable system that organizers are challenging by uniting the struggles for housing and environmental justice. In late 2022, residents at a HUD-subsidized complex...
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Tenant Power and Protections on the Frontlines of Climate Crisis
In California, disaster-triggered renter protections are a crucial victory that contributes to a just recovery for working-class people facing the climate crisis. Just north of the San Francisco Bay, dense urban centers give way to rolling oak woodland hills and...
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Frontline Communities Lead the Way on Housing and Climate Justice Panel
In this panel, housing organizers have identified our most vital source of resilience as climate disasters intensify: the trust between neighbors, which they are forging into a powerful force for collective survival and justice. Tony Samara: Welcome everyone. I’m...
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Razing Liberty Square with Valencia Gunder
This interview was conducted in Fall 2025 with Valencia Gunder of The Smile Trust, about Razing Liberty Square, a documentary about the Black community of Liberty City and how they’re resisting climate gentrification. Misk Noor: Thank you for sending...
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Putting Housing on the High Road
This is a republish of part of a series of CCI substack posts and a policy brief exploring why the United States needs a Green Industrial Policy for Housing. The United States is in the midst of a decades-long housing crisis that has...
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Using Participatory-Action Research to Explore New Campaign Strategies in Red-Trifecta Florida
In the face of a hostile legislature and stalled policies, Miami tenants have stopped asking politicians for help and started building their own power—by turning corporate landlords’ financial records into weapons. The housing crisis in Florida has only worsened...