Tony Samara
Tony Samara (he/him) is Associate Director of Political Strategy at the Right to the City Alliance.
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Yasin Frank Southall
Yasin Frank Southall, Organizing & Community Engagement Manager with Jane Place Neighborhood Sustainability Initiative [JPNSI].
Alex Lantsberg
Alex is the Research and Advocacy Director for the San Francisco Electrical Construction Industry, the labor-management committee of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 6 and the San Francisco...
Tomás Rivera
Tomás Rivera (they/them) is the executive director of Chainbreaker Collective and has been with the organization since it was founded in 2004. Chainbreaker is a membership-led economic, environmental, and racial...
Valencia Gunder
Valencia Gunder or as most recognize her, “Vee”, is an enthusiastic, self-motivated and driven community leader who has been branded as the “Modern Day Fannie Lou Hamer”. A Miami native,...
Maria Llorens
Maria Llorens (she/her) is the Policy and Research Director at the Miami Workers Center, a membership-based organization building power through leadership development and grassroots campaigns with working-class tenants, workers, women,...
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...
Alyssa Rubin
Alyssa Rubin is a Jewish organizer based in Boston.
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...
Sonali Kolhatkar
Sonali Kolhatkar is host and executive producer of Rising Up With Sonali, an independent, subscriber-supported TV, radio, and podcast program airing on dozens of radio stations and Free Speech TV. She...
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...
D. Michael Durham
D. Michael Durham (he/him) is a housing-justice activist and circle keeper based in Nashville, TN. Born in Europe to a fundamentalist Evangelical family, his writing project Abolition Theology explores healing...
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...
Palestine and Israel
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...
Peter Schnall
Dr. Peter Schnall (he/him) is the Co-Director of the Healthy Work Campaign, as well as the Founder and Director of the Center for Social Epidemiology. An internist and epidemiologist, Peter...
Zack Kaldveer
Zack Kaldveer (he/him) is the Communications Manager for the Healthy Work Campaign. Zack has worked as an advocate, writer, and strategist on a diverse range of local, statewide, and national...
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...
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’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...
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...