Voces de la Frontera has consistently organized mass protests and community-wide strikes to defeat state and local policy threats to immigrant rights. We’ve also begun making inroads into rural organizing — building collective power that we’re now using to flip Wisconsin in the upcoming elections.

Four rural organizers on their campaigns to mobilize a base of multiracial voters and change the narrative about race and government in rural America

Organizing campaigns that focus on rural manufacturing workers can play an important role in tackling economic inequality, systemic racism, and gender inequality — and sow the seeds of significant social and political change. 

Indivisible’s rural group leaders organize in some of the most remote and difficult places in the United States. This piece honors their resilience, grit, and ingenuity.

Black women in the South are envisioning a new future for the region and organizing to make this vision a reality. In this conversation, Black women leaders describe organizing in 2020, the barriers to building power for Black communities in the South, and how they sustain themselves in this difficult work.

 “If you want something done, you organize the workers with you. You don't wait on somebody else to do it for you.”

A conversation with the organizers who work at the intersections of economic and racial justice to build democratic participation in energy companies that are owned by the people they serve.

Elections can be won at the margins; progressive movements and campaigns would do well to invest in rural America.

Over the last two years, the Rural Utah Project has encountered a number of challenges in registering rural voters in the Navajo Nation: lack of internet access, no physical addresses, and hard-to-reach households. Nothing could have prepared us, however, for the challenges of COVID. 

Progressives who are serious about countering corporate concentration and advancing racial and gender justice should embrace small business owners as partners in the fight for a more just economy.

Immigrant workers at meatpacking plants are organizing to ensure no one is taken advantage of — and to hold employers accountable.

By arming people with the information they need to navigate the systems that have failed them for centuries, we can begin to break down some of the barriers that have kept wealth out of the hands of Black people.

Multi-racial, women-led teams of manufactured home residents are taking on predatory corporate owners and building progressive power in rural and exurban areas

Rural Utah Project organizers discuss the challenges of digital organizing in a rural context, the importance of cultural competency in rural organizing, and how to build on this organizing in 2021.

These prints, by Jennifer White, depict Northern Plains Native culture through abstract expressionism as well as representational depictions of women bisons and crows. 

Education justice organizers describe what it's like on the ground, as parents, education activists, and community leaders.

Leaders from Pennsylvania, Georgia, and New Mexico share the innovative strategies they are using to engage rural communities on campaigns for climate and clean energy progress.

The AFT embarked on an ambitious private-public partnership to revive an economically devastated West Virginian county and improve educational outcomes. 

A report on racial justice oragnizing in rural America today

String band music is an effective way to bring diverse communities together — and a great source of inexpensive fun for progressive organizers.

It is critical to cultivate a new generation of leaders who can reimagine a thriving future for rural communities. Together, we are building a model of a people-powered organization to get us there. 

The loss of healthcare services is devastating for people living in rural communities. But growing activism shows that people are up for the fight to advance health equity in rural communities.

Voter suppression tactics like the Florida fines and fees law are a reaction to the power returning citizens have to make a big difference in this year’s election. The sooner we activate this block of voters and expand democracy in forgotten communities, the sooner we will all see justice.