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BYP100 We Were Transformed, but Was the World? Reflecting on a Decade of Black-Led Movement
The Black Lives Matter era re-shaped a generation’s understanding of Black identity and politics, but it was also deeply disappointing. Now, a new chapter of Black political organization is needed to win the transformative change we envisioned.
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Jacob Wackerhausen, iStock How Digital Organizing Can Turn Out Voters in 2024
How did a multiracial, multigenerational, and interfaith group of neighbors in the most populous Texas county defy expectations to galvanize the second-largest midterm election turnout in thirty years?
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PICO California The Authors of Their Own Futures
How faith and spiritual grounding helps build power: Interview w/ Joseph Tomás Mckellar of PICO California
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Horizons Project The Horizons Project: Dispatches From Possible Futures
Exploring the next thirty years of potential social justice trajectories, the Horizons Project engaged over a hundred leaders to strategize for a more just and equitable future.
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Faith in Minnesota Power Is Dynamic, Relational, and Can Be Changed
The latest from "What's Your Power Analysis?" we return to our conversation with Doran Schrantz of Faith in Minnesota as she reflects on the significant political and legislative achievements in Minnesota, following the Democratic Farmer Labor Party's trifecta victory in 2022, underlining the strategic organizing and power dynamics that made it possible.
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Elvert Barnes, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons Think #MeToo didn’t make a real difference? Think again.
How #MeToo changed the world and the feminist movement.
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RebexArt, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons Review – Kaiāulu: Gathering Tides
Great books inspire in myriad ways. Siobhan Ring inaugurates a new occasional series, “the Classics of Organizing”, with this review of a classic on organizing in Hawaii.
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Citizen Action NY Lessons on Building Power: 40 Years of Citizen Action of New York
Citizen Action of New York, a key player in grassroots advocacy since 1983, marks its 40th anniversary with critical lessons for all organizers. Executive Director Rosemary Rivera shares her story as the first Latina and first LGBTQ person in that role, and how her life experiences not only brought her here, but are helping to give clarity to an organization poised to deliver victories for working people in a time of great inequality.
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Building Governing Power To Make the World We Need
Lessons from “Governing Power”: How organizations can move from protest to contesting power on a greater scale, and what shifts must be made to allow our movements to fight in all arenas of power, from electoral to economic.
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Drive Michigan Forward Young Organizers Say ‘Drivers Licenses Ensure Dignity’
Immigrant communities mobilized to return the Michigan legislature to Democratic control—but lawmakers stalled on restoring drivers’ licenses for undocumented residents. Two organizers call them to account.
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The New Press How Today’s Underdogs Can Win Big with Strategy
An excerpt from the book "Practical Radicals", a clear seven part guide to changing the world. Deepak and Stephanie are both professors at CUNY's School of Labor and Urban Studies, and Deepak was just announced as the next president of The JPB Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to empowering those living in poverty, sustaining our environment and enabling pioneering medical research.
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Lewis Hine via Wikimedia Commons A Social Justice State
Scholar and long-time organizer Janice Fine argues that the state must reject “neutrality” and embrace social movements as partners in promoting justice.
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The White House via Wikimedia Commons This Strike Worked
In a monumental labor victory echoing the 1937 Flint Sit-Down Strike, the UAW's triumphant strike against top automakers marks a defining moment in modern labor history.
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The White House via Wikimedia Commons Using the “Hidden Levers” of Government
Alex Hertel-Fernandez, who served in the Biden-Harris Administration at the U.S. Department of Labor and the White House Office of Management and Budget, takes stock of efforts by federal agencies to encourage more participation in using the “hidden levers of government,” including challenges and opportunities for organizers and government alike.
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Never Again Action The Ten Components of Good Strategy
Never Again Action’s Serena Adlerstein proposes a framework for understanding strategy that aims to give organizers what they need to build more resilient, and effective, organizations.
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Isabella Chavez via Asian Texans for Justice Building Power in the Midst of Crisis in Texas Asian American Communities and Beyond
This article is co-authored by UyenThi Tran Myhre, Coordinator of Movement Building Programs at the Building Movement Project, and Lily Trieu, Executive Director at Asian Texans for Justice.
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IfNotNowMovement.org What We Talk About When We Talk About Gaza
"While some fringe parts of the activist left confusingly mapped on the “Black Lives Matter” vs “All Lives Matter” discourse onto Israelis and Palestinians, where it became inappropriate or uncool to mourn or even acknowledge “Israeli lives,” other leaders showed a different path forward: a politics of solidarity where every human being is precious and has value."
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istock: PeopleImages All Campaigning is Social
In a post-COVID world, one where loneliness is the next epidemic, the organized left must do our part to organize socially.
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Beth Huang What DSA Can Learn from Organizational Death In the Student Movement
A decades' long right-wing assault on membership organizations led to the collapse of the US Student Association in 2017. What can organizers take away from the last decade of organizational death in the student movement?
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Get Free The Next Ten Years: Retrenchment or Reconstruction?
“To fight back in our current moment we need a flurry of experimentation by organizations looking to absorb and develop the wave of youth activists from 2020, and engage them with a coherent and integrated strategy aimed at defeating white supremacy and leveraging power over the Democratic Party.”