Articles
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Mapping Our Movement to Go on Offense: An Interactive Tool for Common Good Organizing
The Bargaining for the Common Good (BCG) network is undertaking a new project to support activists nationwide. We are collecting and mapping as many union contract expirations as we can across the U.S. to create a powerful tool for our collective work.
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A Brief History of the UNITE HERE Local 11 Remote Unemployment Insurance Mutual Aid Network
UCLA Law students partnered with UNITE HERE Local 11 to establish and run a mutual aid network with over 200 volunteers providing unemployment insurance assistance to thousands of union members. Here’s how they did it and what lessons they learned.
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Building Neighborhood Power
L.A. City Council candidate Nithya Raman and her co-campaign manager, Meghan Choi, talk about using community organizing tactics not just to win an election but to build “resilient neighborhoods” and a people-powered government.
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Black Workers Matter: How defunding police could create thousands of good jobs for Black communities
Divesting from police departments and investing in public goods like transit would improve the air quality in Black neighborhoods while creating thousands of new jobs for Black workers.
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Anything feels possible in this moment
Jae Hyun Shim on the conversations we need to have about safety, justice, and community if we want to live in a world free from the police.
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Photo by Ehimetalor Akhere Editor’s Note
We hope this special issue creates a foundation for more strategic thinking and greater collaboration on how we can fight racial capitalism and build the world we want to see.
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Campaigning for Progressive Changes
“I will be damned if they don't happen in my lifetime”
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Photo by BP Miller Money, Power, Respect
Money making money is a third pillar of racial capitalism. In this audio article, we talk about the racialized financial systems that have given us “socialism for the rich and rugged capitalism for the poor."
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Photo by Liz Sanchez This Land is Your Land
Racial capitalism is built on stolen land and exclusion from home ownership — resulting in enormous racial wealth gaps and housing insecurity. A Homes Guarantee would create housing security for all.
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Photo by Clay Banks Work, work, work, work, work, work
A strong labor movement can help dismantle racial capitalism. Here’s how.
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This time-based illustration demonstrates the sonification of unemployment data for each state. Artwork by Nettrice Gaskins The Rise & Fall of Racial Capitalism
This special issue of The Forge explores the history of racial capitalism and why we must dismantle it to build a liberation economy.
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Photo by Wesley Tingey Hammons Monetary Sanctions, Racialized Wealth Extraction, and Momentum for Fines and Fees Reform
Cities and states are filling budget gaps by increasing monetary sanctions that systematically extract wealth from Black communities. Fines and fees reform is an important step toward dismantling systemic racism, mass criminalization, and economic inequality.
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Photo by Pawel Czerwinski “Building up the house for the next generation”
Greisa Martinez Rosas from United We Dream on her fight for dignity, respect, and equality for undocumented immigrants.
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Photo by Ramez Nassif Sex Work is Work
And criminalization is unsafe for Black and brown people.
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Photo by Larry Farr “It’s a crime to be poor”
Organizers from the Dream Defenders on why we must defund the police and abolish prisons if we want to dismantle racial capitalism.
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Photo by Jen Theodore One-Two Punch: How the Green New Deal Fights Ecofascism and Racialized Capitalism
The Green New Deal will succeed where the mainstream climate movement has failed. Here’s why.
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“It’s rare to find somebody who’s really dug in”
Emily Gallagher and her campaign manager, Andrew Epstein, talk about their NYS Assembly race and how they’ve pivoted during COVID.
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“We have to tax the rich”
Assembly candidate and tenants' rights attorney Adam Bojak on his fight against austerity politics, how COVID is reshaping his campaign, what he’s doing to prepare for an “avalanche of evictions.”
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Photo by Greta Scholderle Moller A Path to Reparations for the War on Drugs
Any plan to decriminalize cannabis must put power in the hands of Black and brown communities.
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Photo by Evangeline Shaw Remaking Our Economy with Restorative Investing
Why philanthropists must invest in Black and brown communities to lead the fight for liberation.