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Two Years After October 7th, Where is Our Movement Headed?
The Jewish community is at a crossroads when it comes to Israel’s genocide. As organizers, it’s our job to bring them along. As the tenuous ceasefire in Israel and Gaza goes into effect, I am brought back to October 7th,...
Because We Need Each Other
Because We Need Each Other, Part I: Origin Story
Exploring the phenomenon known as “cancel culture” as a collaboration with Convergence Magazine In this four-part series, we are exploring the phenomenon known as “cancel culture.” We hope to invite more people into conversations about how we work through tension...
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Featured illustration for Convergence by Kimmie Dearest Because We Need Each Other Pt.2: Understanding Cancel Culture
In this four-part series, we are exploring the phenomenon known as “cancel culture” in collaboration with Convergence Magazine. We hope to invite more people into conversations about how we work through tension and conflict in our movements, and to offer...
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Featured illustration for Convergence by Kimmie Dearest Because We Need Each Other Pt.3: The Early Warning Signs of Cancel Culture
In this four-part series, we are exploring the phenomenon known as “cancel culture.” We hope to invite more people into conversations about how we work through tension and conflict in our movements, and to offer viable pathways for recognition, prevention,...
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Featured illustration for Convergence by Kimmie Dearest Because We Need Each Other Pt.4: Interventions & Healing
In this four-part series, we are exploring the phenomenon known as “cancel culture.” We hope to invite more people into conversations about how we work through tension and conflict in our movements, and to offer viable pathways for recognition, prevention,...
Building Resilient Organizations
How Progressive Organizers Can Build Healthier, More Effective Coalitions for Climate Action
Coalition work depends on trust and clarity—here's the blueprint to get there.
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Getty Images How (Not) to Dismantle White Supremacy
Is the fixation on naming "white supremacy culture" overtaking the fight against white supremacy?
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Never Again Action The Ten Components of Good Strategy
Never Again Action’s Serena Adlerstein proposes a framework for understanding strategy that aims to give organizers what they need to build more resilient, and effective, organizations.
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Getty Images Building Better Leadership Pipelines
In “Building Resilient Organizations,” Maurice Mitchell articulates what many in the professional left have felt but are afraid to say; the once-stable ground of our movement has turned into a space with rising tensions, organizational infighting, and proxy wars that have undermined our ability to be effective.
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Courtesy of the Working Families Party Building Resilient Organizations
Toward Joy and Durable Power in a Time of Crisis
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Labor Activist Chris Smalls On Solidarity with Gaza
On July 26, Israeli occupation forces intercepted the Handala, the latest Gaza Freedom Flotilla ship sailing to break the illegal siege of Gaza amid mass starvation. A United Nations-backed organization has just issued an urgent report warning of a “worst-case scenario of famine” in...
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The Revolution Will Not Be Incorporated: Movement Infrastructure vs Nonprofit Industrial Complex
If the success of Left movements relies on nonprofit organizations, we must be honest about the industry’s reproduction of capitalism and state violence. Revolution is the only way. It’s a precious occasion when your most cherished political values merge with...
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Philanthropy and Repression: Not the Exception—The System
“To confront repression and depoliticization head-on, philanthropy must commit to deeply understanding and supporting the interconnected nature of global struggles.” We are living through a compounding, interconnected catastrophe—one long sounded by Palestinian, Sudanese, Haitian, and countless Global Majority communities. Today’s...
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Sick and unsafe: Trump attacks on workers’ rights is an attack on public health
This power shift hasn’t just changed paychecks—it has fundamentally altered the physical and mental health landscape for millions of Americans. American workers stand at a perilous crossroads, with their health and well-being hanging in the balance. Over decades, a deliberate...
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We Say We Want to Save Democracy. So Why Aren’t We Funding the People Who Can?
A protest can spark momentum, but only infrastructure sustains it. If we want a multiracial democracy that lasts, we have to fund the organizers, trainers, and educators building it every day. Philanthropy says it wants to stop authoritarianism. But right...
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How Mass-Based Community Unions Could Transform the Country
Over-reliance on outside funding threatens organizations’ long-term stability. Veteran labor organizer, Keith Kelleher, proposes for member-driven “community unions” as a sustainable alternative. We are in a mess right now. Labor and community organizations are under attack. A cascading list...
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How Mass-Based Community Unions Could Transform the Country
Over-reliance on outside funding threatens organizations’ long-term stability. Veteran labor organizer, Keith Kelleher, proposes for member-driven “community unions” as a sustainable alternative. We are in a mess right now. Labor and community organizations are under attack. A cascading list...
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Labor’s Quiet Revolution?
The top ranks of labor leadership are turning over quickly. It’s worth asking what, if anything, it means. The last few months have seen some unexpected and significant changes in high profile labor leadership. The news on May 12th that...
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Resisting Fascism: Lessons from South Asia And Its Diaspora
South Asian resistance movements offer vital strategies for combating rising fascism globally through transnational solidarity, grassroots organizing, and cultural defiance. The presence of Kash Patel at the head of the FBI, Usha Vance in the White House, and Vivek Ramaswamy...
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“Electoralizing” Your Issue Campaign: The Example of Paid Sick Days
Elections are a time when organizers hope to establish their issue as a central priority for both the public and the candidates campaigning to take office. The phrase “electoralizing” an issue during elections has become a frequent term among organizers,...
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Worker Power in Spartanburg,SC
Ben Carroll, Organizing Coordinator for the Southern Workers Assembly details what it takes to build worker power in Spartanburg County,SC. On an unseasonably warm afternoon in early March, four worker-volunteers stood at the employee entrance/exit of a major manufacturer in...
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Taking the Long View of History: A Conversation with Prof. John Wright
Conceptualizing social movements as part of a trans-generational struggle is crucial to both stamina and success, he says In the winter of 1969, a group of 70 Black students occupied Morrill Hall at the University of Minnesota to protest institutional...
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Time for People-Centered Policy
Workshop’s Executive Director, MB Maxwell breaks down five ways to secure people-centered policy wins in their latest. Originally published in Democracy: A Journal of Ideas – Time for People-Centered Policy) Like so many others, I knocked on a lot of doors...
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148 Days and Counting: Georgia’s Battle Against Authoritarianism
Learn how Georgian citizens have fought against their own Trump-like figure to get a glimpse of what may be ahead for the United States. It’s the 148th day of protests in Tbilisi. Rustaveli Avenue, home to Georgia’s Parliament building, is...
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How Universities Can Build Community Power
Learn how Citizens UK borrowed from Chicago organizers to transform Universities into catalysts for community power. “In terms of people, money and relationships, universities are by far [one of] the powerful pillars of civil society – but too often they...
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Justice for All: Road-Tested Strategies for Building a Bigger Movement
Three members of the Just Economy Institute share their insights on how to weave multiple worlds together to accelerate change. This article is republished from Common Dreams. Most activists sense the dense web of connections linking social, economic and climate...
