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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.
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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.