Organizing Strategy and Practice

The Craft of Campaigns

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Campaigning to Limit Comcast

Ten years ago, Philadelphia’s Media Mobilizing Project launched a campaign to force Comcast to provide service to working-class residents. It was a learning experience in “inside game” organizing that continues to shape the city’s progressive movements.

Disrupting the Movement Ecosystem

Heather Cronk on GetEqual's campaign to end "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"

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Grieving After a Big Campaign Loss

West Virginia Can't Wait's Kately Lauer on our movement's growing pains 

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Organizing to Stop a Memphis Pipeline

Justin J. Pearson on Memphis Community Against Pollution's fight to stop a new pipeline.

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Campaigning against a “done deal” in Philadelphia

Daniel Hunter of 350.org on the campaign to stop casino development in Philadelphia. 

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A Campaign to Stop Amazon's Price-Gouging

Women’s March uses campaigns as "political identity formation moments"

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The Campaign to End Cash Bail

This year, Illinois will become the first state to eliminate wealth-based pretrial incarceration. The path to passing the legislation holds lessons for organizers in how to win large-scale victories. 

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The #CancelStudentDebt Campaign

Eleni Schermer and Ann Bowers reflect on the Debt Collective's work over the past ten years.

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SONG’s "Free From Fear" Campaign

The Birth of Black Mama’s Bail Outs

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Building a Citywide Tenant Union in Kansas City

KC Tenants's Tara Raghuveer is "ruthless" about base building. 

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Keeping a Hard No

Campaign lessons from the battle to stop Amazon’s HQ2 in Queens

Lessons from the Campaign to Win DACA

Neidi Dominguez on how youung undocumented organizers won by not listening to DC, embracing disagreement, and using multiple strategies.