Articles
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Koshu Kunii Black Lives Matter Equals Defund the Police.
Lessons from the whirlwind.
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Janeese Lewis George Campaign Build the Movement. Elect Bold Leaders. Repeat.
A socialist candidate’s upset Council victory offers clear lessons for the left on how to organize and movement build during the pandemic.
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Leslie Cross Fighting for a Bold, Progressive Agenda in DC
Activists in the District of Columbia are building support for statehood while fighting to advance a progressive agenda and holding their own elected officials to account.
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Janeese Lewis George Campaign To Win, We Need to Do Things Differently.
Movement building and risk taking are key to winning insurgent electoral campaigns.
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Bringing Bernie 2020 Organizing Tools to the Workplace
The Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee, a project born out of a partnership between the United Electrical Workers (UE) and the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), is taking the lessons learned from the Bernie 2020 campaign into workplace organizing.
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Clay Banks Reclaiming Rhode Island in a Movement Moment
Bernie volunteers in Rhode Island are turning their presidential campaign operation into a statewide leftist organization. In the process, they’re learning to connect their socialist principles to the demand to Defund the Police.
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We Don’t Know What We’re Doing
Two new books on how to strengthen the labor movement end up showing something very different — that we don’t know why or how unions succeed or fail, and we don’t have any clear sense of how to do better.
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Library of Congress How Phyllis Schlafly Found The Right Balance of Racism and Misogyny and Charted the Future of the Radical Right
An excerpt from The Lie That Binds, a new political history of how the radical right used abortion to gain power and hijak the Republican Party.
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Ricardo Levins Morales Shaping Narrative, Shifting Power: Interviews with Organizers
We asked veteran organizers how their work transforms public narrative. They told us stories that demonstrate the power of narrative to shape the way we make sense of the world and the possibilities for changing it.
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Ricardo Levins Morales Challenging Neoliberalism by Building Power for Tax Reform
Challenging the power structure and the assumptions of capitalism requires building a movement with millions of people. We can only do that if we transform the dominant worldview.
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Ricardo Levins Morales Editor’s Note
Narrative is not a communications strategy to be layered on top of organizing campaigns but fundamental to the work we do as organizers: expanding people’s sense of possibility, agency, and power to create change.
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Ricardo Levins Morales Safety Depends on Everyone Believing They Have a Future
Why we must move beyond “welfare queens” and “superpredators” to narratives that create opportunities for all of us.
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Ricardo Levins Morales Fighting for Retail Workers’ Rights Means Revealing the Lies of Racial Capitalism
Retail corporations tell powerful narratives about the irresistible forces of economic and technological change to obscure the impact of their focus on short-term profits — often at the expense of workers. Winning campaigns with retail workers requires changing those narratives.
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Ricardo Levins Morales “Love is Love” and Other Stories: The Role of Narrative in Winning the Freedom To Marry
To win the freedom to marry for gays and lesbians, we didn’t need new arguments. We didn’t need to find new rights. We needed to transform the hearts and minds of the public.
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Ricardo Levins Morales Putting the Nails in Neoliberalism’s Coffin
"This is going to be the decade of Reconstruction if we can organize well."
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Ricardo Levins Morales Pulling Back the Curtain to Reveal What’s Possible
Most people operate under a set of competing narratives. Our job is to bring their most progressive understanding of the world to the fore.
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Ricardo Levins Morales “The Organizing and the Narrative Were Always One”: The Campaign to Win the Affordable Care Act
Narrative is not a messaging strategy but the story driving the entire campaign.
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Ricardo Levins Morales Caregiving is Essential Work: Changing the Narrative to Make Care Work Visible and Valued
Organizers for the National Domestic Workers Alliance and Caring Across Generations talk about how we can move to a narrative of caregiving as a collective responsibility that demands collective solutions.
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Ricardo Levins Morales Just Transition: Moving from an Extractive to a Regenerative Economy
Miya Yoshitani has “shovel-ready” ideas for how the current crisis could prompt a just transition from the extractive economy to a regenerative economy.
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Ricardo Levins Morales From Exploitation to Democracy: How We Will Save the Planet
Extractive racial capitalism is destroying the planet, but a thriving democracy can save us.