Articles
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Race, Class and Coalitions
Sudip Bhattacharya digs into real-world organizing and left political theory to examine the politics of race, class and coalition building.
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Messaging Guidance on COVID-19
This guide is adapted from messaging developed with the <a href="http://millionvotersproject.org/">Million Voters Project</a>, a coalition of organizing networks in California. It draws upon previous messaging guidance from Nicole Carty and Anthony Torres.
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Moving Through Contagion Fear, Preparing for Recovery
Note: This essay builds on a March 7, 2020 essay by Larry Kleinman entitled Organizing in a Time of Approaching Pandemic: Campaigns and Contingency Planning Amid the Effects and Fears of Coronavirus”
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Keeping Business Alive: The Government as Buyer of Last Resort
The coronavirus threatens the world’s economic life. Social distancing measures, essential to fight the epidemic, are sharply reducing demand in sectors such as transportation, restaurants, hotels, and entertainment.
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Organizando en Medio de una pandemia inminente: Campañas y planes de contingencia en medio de Una Pandemia Inminente: los efectos y temores del Coronaviru.
Un organizador veterano nos ayuda a considerar las preguntas que surgen con respecto a organizar mientras la crisis del coronavirus sigue creciendo cada dia.
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Organizing in a Time of Approaching Pandemic: Campaigns and Contingency Planning Amid the Effects and Fear of Coronavirus
<b id="docs-internal-guid-6a99fd44-7fff-2bbd-b61d-18fc52bc5cb2">A veteran organizer helps us to think through organizing questions as the coronavirus crisis grows by the day.</b>
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An Organizer’s Tale
We inaugurate the From the Archives series with a classic from Cesar Chavez.
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Building the Movement for Tax Justice
The new book by Gabriel Zucman and Emmanuel Saez, <a href="https://wwnorton.com/books/the-triumph-of-injustice">The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay</a> has just come out, and it makes a few things really clear.
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Energy Democracy Campaigns: Building the Green New Deal from the Ground Up
The climate crisis and the fight for a Green New Deal has opened up a new conversation about energy democracy. Three DSA organizers from different states examine the growing movement for public power in comparison and context.
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Merge Left
There’s no excuse for recycling tired phrases about “the middle class,” or simply pointing out how Trump is bad, without injecting our own values and vision into the conversation. We know that ignoring race should qualify as political malpractice. Let’s at least make new mistakes. López and his fellow researchers have given us everything we need to get started.
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National Archives Dealing with Funders: Lessons from the Long Civil Rights Movement
A Review of <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/lasr.12384">“The Price of Civil Rights: Black Lives, White Funding, and Movement Capture,”</a> by Megan Francis Ming, and<a href="https://uncpress.org/book/9781469652009/poll-power/"> Poll Power,</a> by Evan Faulkenbury
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The Sick and the Well: Ableism is the Problem — Medicare For All is the Solution
Examining different experiences (organizing, mobilization, and otherwise), Vinay Krishnan writes about ableism and the fight for Medicare for All.
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From Textathons to Black Joy: How Color of Change is Re-imagining Organizing
The idea, says Color of Change's chief of campaigns Arisha Hatch, is to center Black joy and to build face-to-face teams, which now number in the thousands, of people meeting and acting locally (and having fun together).
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Politically Effective or Just Good at Campaigns?
A research report on capacity building in 501(c)(4) organizations and the role of leadership.
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The Triumph of Injustice: From Boston to Richmond
The history of taxation in the United States is anything but linear. It’s a story of dramatic reversals, of sudden ideological and political changes, of groundbreaking innovations and radical U-turns.
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What ACORN Taught Us
It has been ten years since the community group ACORN was destroyed. At its height, The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now was the largest community organization in the United States with chapters in over 100 cities.
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Tips for Organizing Member-Led In-District Meetings At Scale
How many times have you just about gotten to the beginning of a Congressional recess, realized you want to run an in-district legislative campaign to influence them when they’re home from Washington, but didn’t do it because you weren’t sure where to begin?
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Shadow Network
Anne Nelson's Shadow Network: Media, Money and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right tells a holistic story of the toxic cocktail of extremist political operatives and a right-wing evangelical base. This is the coalition that is winning our day. It is perhaps the greatest threat to our freedoms and to a progressive future and deserves our full attention.
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Civic Power: Reclaiming Democracy’s Radicalism
In this excerpt from the book Civic Power: Rebuilding American Democracy in an Era of Crisis, authors K. Sabeel Rahman and Hollie Russon Gilman discuss restoring American democracy and rescuing it from crisis.
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An Interview with Angela Lang
I felt like, if you’re organizing from a place of anger, that is not sustainable at all. I’m trying to figure out different ways to go back to organizing from a place of love.