Articles
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Credit: Paul Campbell How Liberal Legal Frameworks Become Fodder for Fascism
Dima Khalidi of Palestine Legal explains how our legal system’s inability to challenge underlying power structures allows for the far right to wield it against our people and our movements. Adapted from remarks at the Through the Portal Conference in Chicago, September 2024.
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Credit: SementsovaLesia On Woodworking and Our Toolbox of Organizing Tactics
Rynn Reed dives deep into how carpentry taught her to better understand what it takes to build effective strategy.
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Credit: rudall30 Calling for a Global Approach to Countervailing Oligarchic Power
Meena Jagannath of the Movement Law Lab argues for global strategies that trade U.S. exceptionalism for an international analysis that takes seriously the ever-reaching power of the wealthy elite.
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Credit: siraanamwong How the Divestment Movement Can Fund the Revolution
A former student organizer proposes a strategy for the divestment movement to achieve victory while fundamentally transforming the organizing landscape in the process.
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Credit: Sarah-Ji How Students Are Resisting the Politics of Supremacy
Two organizers from Get Free argue that campus protests show young people want leaders who challenge supremacy, not uphold it, and urge President Biden to follow their generation's lead in reversing harmful policies.
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Credit: Lemon_tm Towards a New Philanthropy
How do we build together from the demand for an end to genocide towards a collective call for the safety, dignity, and freedom of the Palestinian people?
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Pray-in action led by Adalah Justice Project How Cultural Strategy Drives Long-Term Change
Cultural strategies have long been central to the success of social movements. Ciara Taylor of the Kairos Center uses prose, images, and songs to capture the role of cultural organizing in the ongoing struggle for a free Palestine.
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Credit: AlexLMX Cultural Boycott, and Ending Complicity in Genocide
Shiv Kotecha explains the role of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) in fighting against Israel's use of culture as a weapon of genocide.
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Credit: Josh Yoder, Look Loud Can Culture Build Power?
Get a behind the scenes at Look Loud, a cultural organization leveling up protests everywhere with beautiful, intentional, and powerful art.
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Credit:Jennifer Epps-Addison Reflection on the Power to Win Report: Organizing for a Just Future
Lifelong organizer Jennifer Epps-Addison shares crucial lessons on power and gives us a glimpse behind the Power to Win report and what she and hundreds of other organizers are thinking.
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Credit: rudall30 Provoke. Legitimize. Win. A Review of The Guarantee
A review of Natalie Foster's new "hopepunk" book that challenges right and leftwing cynicism with a clear-eyed vision for a beautiful future we may already be moving toward.
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Camp Casey Anti-Iraq War Protest | Carolmooredc, Wikimedia Commons How to Make Sure Your Disruptive Protest Helps Your Cause
Learn about the five factors that will influence whether a polarizing protest will strengthen your movement or potentially undermine it. Part 2 on polarization from Mark Engler and Paul Engler.
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Diana Ludwig A Departed Labor “Saint” Offers Vital Insights for This Moment
Staughton Lynd, worker-led unionism, and the total rejection of restraints on it.
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iStock: mactrunk Movement Media Organizations Are Uniting to Build Power
Fourteen values-aligned organizations have formed the Movement Media Alliance, a new coalition of social justice-driven journalism platforms aimed at building power, sharing resources, and transforming the news.
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Woolsworth Lunch Counter Sit-in, State Archives of North Carolina Why Protests Work, Even When Not Everybody Likes Them
First in a two-part series explaining protests and polarization. This first part breaks down why protests can be polarizing and how movements can win in moments of polarization, the second part covers what factors determine if a polarizing action will be successful.
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iStock: Jacob Wackerhausen Four Things We Need to Build Power
The Forge Interviews Anthony Thigpenn, a community organizer with over three decades of experience, about what it would take to achieve true victory in this political moment. Part of our Power To Win report with The Action Lab and the Initiative for Community Power at NYU.
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iStock How To Build the Power To Win
The Power to Win report interviewed and surveyed close to 300 organizers about what power is, what it isn’t, and whether we have it. Learn more about their insights here.
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iStock: Karimphoto Mass Protest and the Missing Revolution: Interview
Andrew Friedman interviews Vincent Bevins, author of The Jakarta Method and If We Burn, which traces the “missing revolution” that followed years of mass protest in the 2010s.
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How to Build a New World, Locally
Using Chicago's model of volunteer precinct captains can help win elections, rebuild our sense of community, and birth a world worthy of the mass social movements of the 21st century.
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How Progressive Organizers Can Build Healthier, More Effective Coalitions for Climate Action
Coalition work depends on trust and clarity—here's the blueprint to get there.