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2020 Labor Notes Conference

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The Labor Notes Conference is the biggest gathering out there of grassroots union activists, worker center leaders, and all-around troublemakers.

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Netroots Nation

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For more than a decade, Netroots Nation has hosted the largest annual conference for progressives, drawing nearly 3,000 attendees from around the country and beyond. Netroots Nation 2020—our 15th annual conference—is set for August 13-15 in Denver.

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Facing Race: A National Conference

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Facing Race is presented by Race Forward, an organization that united with Center for Social Inclusion (CSI) in 2017 to become the new Race Forward. The new Race Forward is home to the Government Alliance on Race and Equity (GARE), and also publishes Colorlines, a daily news site where race matters.

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How Labor Can Fight Fascism

Bill Fletcher Jr.

Bill Fletcher Jr., long-time labor and racial justice organizer, interviews Paul Ortiz, of the United Faculty of Florida, about the growing fascist movement and how unions can be a critical force in fighting the likes of Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump.

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Nicole Carty

The Next Ten Years: Retrenchment or Reconstruction?

“To fight back in our current moment we need a flurry of experimentation by organizations looking to absorb and develop the wave of youth activists from 2020, and engage them with a coherent and integrated strategy aimed at defeating white supremacy and leveraging power over the Democratic Party.”

Dave Kamper

OK, I’ve Seen Enough. This Time Is Different.

The labor movement has been preparing for this moment 

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Erin Heaney

Winning White People to the Fight Against the MAGA...

To address the challenges our movements face in this time, we need to name white resentment as the fuel for the Right’s dramatic rise –– and offer white people a better option.

Rashida James-Saadiya

Finding Liberation and Belonging in Lessons from the...

Black Muslim women in the United States, escpecially in Southern States, face unique discrimination due to intersecting marginalized identities. Organizers are making an intentional effort to make sure they're included in the national conversation around safety.

Deepak Pateriya

A Sacred Trust: Being A Paid Staff Person of a Base...

The tensions Maurice Mitchell highlights in ‘Building Resilient Organizations’ operate differently in base organizations. The solutions will be different, too.

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Gabrielle Rejouis

A Sieve for Black Workers

Excluded from minimum wage and union rights, gig workers, disproportionately Black, grapple with a two-tiered system rooted in historical labor laws that must be reformed for racial and worker justice.

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Delvone Michael

Abolition, Fusion, and the Value of a Multi-Party...

Fusion voting, utilized by Abolitionists before and after the Civil War, can strengthen third parties and address the shortcomings of the current two-party system.

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Dave Kamper

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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Dania Rajendra

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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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.

United Smith Student Workers, undergraduate cafeteria workers union

United Smith Student Workers

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.

Ted Polumbaum

Eddie Wong

How Freedom Summer Can Inspire Us in 2024

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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Asha Ransby-Sporn

We Were Transformed, but Was the World? Reflecting on...

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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Jess Moore Matthews

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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