Articles
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Rainalee111 Will the Revolution Be Funded?
Organizers and researchers Zac Chapman and Nairuti Shastry examine how movements can build power by working within, without, and against philanthropy.
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Adam Jones From the Traumas of America to the Shores of Africa: A Journey of Self-Healing
Brandon Sturdivant of Mass Liberation Project argues that addressing personal trauma can help transform the work and lives of Black organizers, and make systemic change all the more possible.
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ULU Local 880 Organizing One of the Largest Black Led Unions in the United States
A follow-up to “How Four Black Women Changed Labor Organizing Forever”, this article captures the contract fight that followed and the genius and fortitude required to create one of the most important unions in U.S. history.
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Intervening on Activist Tendencies
Learn from Ingrid Lakey how a group of Quakers created a purpose-built organization that forced change at the country's sixth-largest bank.
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Andrew Ratto via Wikimedia Commons How to Support Palestinians? Boycott, Divest from, and Sanction Israel
Sumaya Awad of the Adalah Justice Project explains BDS, its urgency, and why it is essential for ending Israel’s policies of genocide and apartheid.
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Mx. Granger via Wikimedia Commons Dissenters and the Student Movement for Palestine
Brianna Gibson of the BlackOUT Collective interviews Sidney Miralao from Dissenters, an anti-imperial youth organization playing an important role in the student movement for a free Palestine. Learn what’s happening on the ground and how this political moment is creating a new generation of disciplined leaders.
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kimsilverstein.com How The Fight for a Free Palestine is Changing Organizing
Arielle Klagsbrun of the Action Center on Race and Economy breaks down how the movement for a free Palestine has adopted and transformed the affinity group model of mass movement organizing.
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A Campaign Against Transgender Discrimination Pivots After Getting Stuck
Learn from Nico Amador, Director of the Leadership Institute at CenterLink—an international member network of LGBT Centers—about how campaigns can pivot to create more favorable conditions.
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iStock How Labor Can Fight Fascism
Bill Fletcher Jr., long-time labor and racial justice organizer, interviews Paul Ortiz, of the United Faculty of Florida, about the growing fascist movement and how unions can be a critical force in fighting the likes of Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump.
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Cutting an Issue to Defend Black Voters in Michigan
Learn how Byron Hobbs and Jonathan Hogstad of Community Change/Action and the Defend Black Voters Coalition creatively targeted utility companies and health insurers as part of their strategy to combat voter suppression in Michigan.
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YDS How We Rebuilt the Young Democratic Socialists
A history of the late 2000s youth section of the Democratic Socialists of America and how they used lessons from Mao and contemporary labor to reevaluate their conditions and build a winning strategy.
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iStock Lesson From the UK: How To Scale Community Organizing in Moments of Crisis
George Gabriel reflects on the British Refugees Welcome movement, which helped bring tens of thousands of Syrians to the UK, and how a system of incubating and cascading created the local and national capacity necessary for the victory.
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Dusting off a Seven-Year-Old Demand To Win Millions for Philly’s Public Schools
Learn how Devan Spear and Philly Jobs with Justice helped secure $100 million to address asbestos and lead contamination within the Philadelphia public school system.
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iStock Understanding the New Vanguard of the Right
National Conservatives, postliberals, and the Nietzschean Right are struggling for power over the Right, and the future of the nation.
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istock Pick Up The Phone: Resisting Call-Out Culture
Claire Haas examines the impact of technology on organizational dynamics, particularly in generating internal conflicts, and offers practical recommendations for addressing these challenges.
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Elekes Andor 5 Lessons From Hungary: How to Fight Authoritarians
Lessons from a convening between pro-democracy organizers from the U.S. and Hungary. Gordon Whitman explains how grassroots organizations can adapt as authoritarians change the rules of the game, and how neoliberalism paves the path for dictators.
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Justice for Janitors: A Comeback Story That Continues Today
Learn, with Stephen Lerner of Bargaining for the Common Good, how Justice for Janitors reinvented themselves and labor organizing and created multipronged strategies for victory.
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City of Boston Archives How a Black Mayor Took on a Racist Political Machine
40 years ago, Chicago’s first Black mayor shattered status-quo politics in his city, offering insights that remain relevant for grassroots movements today.
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Stephen Melkisethian Intro: Palestine and the US
We’ve come together to help people understand what’s happening in Gaza from an organizing perspective, and we will be sharing our perspectives while also sharing many points of view throughout the issue and we hope that you engage. This issue is important to many of us, and we intend to create space accessible to a variety of organizers for nuanced reflection and debate that pushes readers past fear and isolation, and towards true solidarity.
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Emma Dessau A Love Letter to All Who March
Palestinian children are being crushed by rubble. We cannot allow ourselves to be crushed by bleakness. Direct action trainer and dancer LJ Amsterdam writes that it is our role and our responsibility to put our bodies in motion.