Organizing Strategy and Practice

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.

The Craft of Campaigns

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Best of 2021

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Organizing in Rural America

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The Future of the Labor Movement

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Organizing, Innovation, and Upheaval

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How Liberal Legal Frameworks Become Fodder for Fascism

Dima Khalidi of Palestine Legal explains how our legal system’s inability to challenge underlying power structures allows for the far right to wield it against our people and our movements. Adapted from remarks at the Through the Portal Conference in Chicago, September 2024.

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On Woodworking and Our Toolbox of Organizing Tactics

Rynn Reed dives deep into how carpentry taught her to better understand what it takes to build effective strategy.

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Four Things We Need to Build Power

The Forge Interviews Anthony Thigpenn, a community organizer with over three decades of experience, about what it would take to achieve true victory in this political moment. Part of our Power To Win report with The Action Lab and the Initiative for Community Power at NYU.

Power To Win

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