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Organizing Strategy and Practice

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Jackson Potter

Jacobin

Rest in Red, Karen Lewis

Steve Dubb

Nonprofit Quarterly

Carolina Rising: Base-Building Lessons from North Carolina

Shea Carver

INVESTING IN LEADERS: New Hanover for All starts their slow build to obtain local and state political power

Becca Guerra

Chronicle of Philanthropy

The Boom and Bust Election Funding Cycle Harms Grassroots Groups and Needs to Stop

Jamila Michener

Law and Political Economy

You Planted a Seed: Legal Problems as Power Building Possibilities

Waleed Shahid, Daniel Aldana Cohen, and Kate Aronoff

Dissent

Building Power in a Time of Monsters

Josh Cohen

Shelterforce

History Shows that in Times of Crisis, Housing Activists Get Radical

Gara LaMarche

Democracy Alliance Blog

Defund the Police? Abolitionist Movements Have Always Blazed the Way to Change.

Mie Inouye

Jacobin

Frances Fox Piven on Why Protesters Must “Defend Their Ability to Exercise Disruptive Power”

Ray Brescia

The Hill

It's not the technology, it's the movement

Hahrie Han

New York Times

What Happened When the Minneapolis Police Lost Legitimacy?

Rachel Cohen

Strikewave

Mission-driven and worker-driven: Inside the wave of nonprofit organizing

Jane Slaughter

Labor Notes

In a Pandemic, Finding New and Old Ways To Fight New and Old Foes

Ayanna Albertson

Change Wire

Voices of Everyday Leaders

Hamilton Nolan

In These Times

The Long-Neglected Online Labor Organizing Space Is Getting More Crowded

Jeremy Saunders and Alice Aguilar

Medium

Beyond Covid-19 and Disaster Capitalism: Why We Need Sustainable, Secure Left Tech Infrastructure for Social Justice Movements

E. Tammy Kim

The Nation

Structure Tests

Shane Goldmacher

The New York Times

Knock, Knock, Who’s There? No Political Canvassers, for the First Time Maybe Ever

Conor Dougherty and John Eligon

The New York Times

Protesting Without Gathering, Tenant Organizers Get Creative

Eleni Schirmer

Boston Review

“Hello, We Are from Wisconsin, and We Are Your Future”

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