Shiv Kotecha
Shiv Kotecha is a writer who lives in New York.
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Cultural Boycott, and Ending Complicity in Genocide
Shiv Kotecha explains the role of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) in fighting against Israel's use of culture as a weapon of genocide.
Palestine and Israel
Can Culture Build Power?
Get a behind the scenes at Look Loud, a cultural organization leveling up protests everywhere with beautiful, intentional, and powerful art.
Palestine and Israel
Rachel Schragis
Rachel is a cultural worker, organizer and co-lead of the visual strategy team Look Loud. A lifelong New Yorker who entered movements through Occupy Wall Street, Rachel’s work focuses on...
Ciara Taylor
Ciara Taylor is a dynamic multimedia artist, song leader, and facilitator committed to using arts and culture to build community and develop leaders. As the Cultural Strategies Organizer and Educator...
Josh Yoder
Josh Yoder is an organizer from South Central Pennsylvania where he’s worked on pipeline fights, housing justice, anti-war organizing, congressional campaigns, and defending rural voting rights. His work focuses on...
Reflection on the Power to Win Report: Organizing for a Just Future
Lifelong organizer Jennifer Epps-Addison shares crucial lessons on power and gives us a glimpse behind the Power to Win report and what she and hundreds of other organizers are thinking.
Provoke. Legitimize. Win. A Review of The Guarantee
A review of Natalie Foster's new "hopepunk" book that challenges right and leftwing cynicism with a clear-eyed vision for a beautiful future we may already be moving toward.
How to Make Sure Your Disruptive Protest Helps Your Cause
Learn about the five factors that will influence whether a polarizing protest will strengthen your movement or potentially undermine it. Part 2 on polarization from Mark Engler and Paul Engler.
A Departed Labor “Saint” Offers Vital Insights for This Moment
Staughton Lynd, worker-led unionism, and the total rejection of restraints on it.
Daniel Gross
Daniel Gross is a former retail, fast food, and non-profit worker. He’s currently working on a book about union-building, forthcoming from Haymarket Books in 2025. Daniel works with the soon...
Movement Media Organizations Are Uniting to Build Power
Fourteen values-aligned organizations have formed the Movement Media Alliance, a new coalition of social justice-driven journalism platforms aimed at building power, sharing resources, and transforming the news.
Why Protests Work, Even When Not Everybody Likes Them
First in a two-part series explaining protests and polarization. This first part breaks down why protests can be polarizing and how movements can win in moments of polarization, the second part covers what factors determine if a polarizing action will be successful.
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.
Jennifer Epps-Addison
Jennifer Epps-Addison is Founder and Chief Imagineer at Synergy Power Consulting, a coach-collaborator consulting firm that supports the next generation of social change leaders by drawing on its founder’s nearly...
How To Build the Power To Win
The Power to Win report interviewed and surveyed close to 300 organizers about what power is, what it isn’t, and whether we have it. Learn more about their insights here.
Mass Protest and the Missing Revolution: Interview
Andrew Friedman interviews Vincent Bevins, author of The Jakarta Method and If We Burn, which traces the “missing revolution” that followed years of mass protest in the 2010s.
How to Build a New World, Locally
Using Chicago's model of volunteer precinct captains can help win elections, rebuild our sense of community, and birth a world worthy of the mass social movements of the 21st century.
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.
Jack Zhou
Jack Zhou (he/him) helps to produce and manage the Climate Advocacy Lab’s social science resources for its webinars, workshops, and website. His work at the Lab is in service of...