Kazu Haga
Kazu Haga is a trainer and practitioner of nonviolence and restorative justice with over 25-years of experience in social change work, a core member of the Fierce Vulnerability Network, a...
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Shilpa Jain
Shilpa Jain is currently co-creating home and community with her partner in Oakland/Berkeley, CA (Ohlone ancestral lands). She collaborates on community-building, healing, transformative approaches to conflict, leadership coaching, and more,...
Celia Kutz
Celia Kutz is a facilitator and trainer, radicalized through the mass mobilization movement in the early 2000’s. She’s been with Training for Change for 16 years training and facilitating thousands of groups...
Fortifying the Frontlines: How to Protect Social Movements Under Attack
Executive Director of the Building Movement Project, Janis Rosheuvel unpacks how to bolster the frontlines of movement work for the fight ahead The burning of the main office building at...
Janis Rosheuvel
Janis Rosheuvel is a Black immigrant who was born in Guyana, South America. She currently serves as the Executive Director of the Building Movement Project. For over two decades, Janis...
Emancipation Over Extinction
Somatic coach and organizer, Aaron Jamal, provides a timely reminder to fight for emancipation in ongoing times of extreme oppression. Apocalyptic hurricanes in my home state of North Carolina and...
Aaron Jamal
Aaron Jamal is an organizer, strategist, writer and somatic coach in North Carolina, where he is committed to the socialist transformation of the United States.
Plan 2028: Bringing Labor and Social Movements Together
Plan 2028 isn’t just another general strike call—it’s a strategic, long-term push to unite labor and social movements in a coordinated fight against rising authoritarianism. The Trump Administration has come...
Building Community, Building Power: Lessons from Indigenous Women in Colombia
Peralta, a former Political Director at SEIU sits down with Mayor of Jambaló, Emilse Paz Labio about her decades long work towards women’s rights and environmental justice. How does one...
Maria Peralta
Maria Peralta is a consultant with over 25 years of leadership experience in progressive politics, labor organizing, voting rights and democracy. Most recently, Maria served as National Political Director for...
Reflecting on COVID, Year 5
Vee Copeland, a disabled organizer and former policy analyst details their experience facing the lack of care in movement strategy around surviving the current administration It has been a treacherous...
Collective Breathing: Post-Election Grief, Organizing, and Surviving with a Disability
Copeland, a disabled organizer and former policy analyst details their experience facing the lack of care in movement strategy around surviving the current administration Trump won the presidential election. And...
Vee Copeland
Vee Copeland is a disabled organizer, researcher, and former policy analyst. Her work revolves around disability justice, black feminism, and abolition.
Fear is How We Got Here: On the Zionist Grip on the American Jewish Psyche
Poet & Writer, Tamar Ashdot, parses through their family legacy to unpack to the legacy of fear that has led American Jewish communities to stay loyal to Zionism while others...
Tamar Ashdot
Raised in Brooklyn, New York, Tamar is an essayist, poet, educator, and interdisciplinary artist who is often writing about identity, place, and nationality. Tamar holds an MFA in Poetry from...
Justice Begins at Home: How Collective Governance Builds Movements That Can Withstand Anything
Executive Director of Bala Rising, Niloufar Khansari, brings their years of movement lawyer experience to unpack how we can bring collective governance into our daily lives. One evening in mid-2017,...
Niloufar Khonsari
Niloufar Khonsari (she, they) is the executive director of Bala Rising and former attorney and co-founder at Pangea Legal Services, with over two decades of experience in movement lawyering, social justice advocacy, and collective...
The Price of ‘Green Zionism’: Climate Justice and the Colonization of Palestine
A deep dive into the long-standing history of Green Zionism that is plaguing Palestine A Lancet study reported that the actual estimated death toll in Gaza exceeds 180,000+ Palestinians, citing...
Mohammed Ahmad
Mohammed Ahmad is a Palestinian-American journalist and writer based in Los Angeles. He holds a master’s in Professional Creative Writing, with an emphasis in poetry, from the University of Denver.
Learning and Researching our Movement History
Maggie Corser and writer Derek Seidman delve into the power of movement research and its ongoing impact on campaign strategy throughout movement history We’re living through an intensification of crises...