Articles
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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.
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Esquerda.net Gaza is Palestine, Dismantle Zionism, and Palestine Will Free Us All
Three opening pieces from our special co-editors: Sandra Tamari, Morgan Bassichis, and Ramah Kudaimi. They present context, history, and a resounding commitment to liberation for Palestine.
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Portrait of the first African-Americans elected to serve in Congress following the Civil War. Library of Congress Abolition, Fusion, and the Value of a Multi-Party Democracy
Fusion voting, utilized by Abolitionists before and after the Civil War, can strengthen third parties and address the shortcomings of the current two-party system.
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shironosov A Sieve for Black Workers
Excluded from minimum wage and union rights, gig workers, disproportionately Black, grapple with a two-tiered system rooted in historical labor laws that must be reformed for racial and worker justice.
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#NoCopAcademy: A Campaign Against Chicago’s ‘Cop City’
Learn about Chicago's #NoCopAcademy Campaign and how the struggle helped build the capacity of the city's growing social movement. Featuring Karina Mireya, digital organizer and freelance photographer, and Benji Hart, an interdisciplinary artist, author, and educator.
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SBWorkers United This Is What It Looks Like
Two and a half years in, Starbucks workers have made a breakthrough. Buried in the stilted prose of the announcement is a historic victory.
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Weldon Kennedy via Wikimedia Commons Oligarchy and the Fight for Paid Family Leave
Vicki Shabo from Better Life Lab at New America discusses the long-term fight for paid family and medical leave, covering progress at state and federal levels, setbacks in national legislation, and the influence of oligarchic interests. Interviewed by Dania Rajendra, senior strategist at Future Currents .
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Irma Sherman, Chair of McMaid Workers Organizing Committee How Four Black Women Changed Labor Organizing Forever
40 years ago in Chicago, McMaid workers sparked a movement.
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Craft of Campaigns Season 2
The Craft of Campaigns podcast featured stories and lessons from issue-based action campaigns. In Season 2, we’ll hear from campaigners who took on the ruling class in D.C. to win protections for janitors, challenged corporations who were bankrolling far-right election deniers in Michigan, and got one of the nation’s largest banks to stop funding mountaintop removal coal mining.
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Michael Tao / The Daily Californian archives, MIT Strategy Is a Craft
A conversation with Deepak Bhargava and Stephanie Luce about their new book, Practical Radicals, and the need for the left to embrace a rigorous, multi-pronged strategy for change.
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United Smith Student Workers The Undergrads are Unionizing
United Smith Student Workers is one of the first undergrad student unions in the country and part of a larger movement that began in the early 2000s. Find out how they, and others, are seizing upon new labor regulations to improve lives and build power.
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Ted Polumbaum How Freedom Summer Can Inspire Us Today
Freedom Summer transformed the country by transforming the South. To fight white supremacy and defeat fascists block by block and at the ballot box, we have to reflect on the work of the SNCC-fueled coalition and the innovations that made their work successful.
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KTU Facebook There Is Power in a (Tenant) Union
Kansas City Tenants is one of the most successful Tenant Unions in the country. This interview with their Director, Tara Raghuveer, will give you a glimpse at the analysis and strategy that has powered their growth to over 9,000 members across Kansas City.
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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.