
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...
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...
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 is a disabled organizer, researcher, and former policy analyst. Her work revolves around disability justice, black feminism, and abolition.
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...
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...
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 (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...
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 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.
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...
Derek Seidman is a writer, researcher and historian living in Buffalo, New York. He is a regular contributor for Truthout and a contributing writer for LittleSis.
Maggie Corser is the Director of Strategic Research and Policy at Popular Democracy
Facing autocracy demands more than resistance—it requires us to understand the failures that brought it to power and to organize for a democracy that delivers for everyone.
Bernadett Sebály is a researcher, educator, and veteran national organizer from Hungary. She examines the policy impact of movements and organizing strategies to improve the effectiveness of social struggles.
For four weeks leading up to the Spring 2024 primary elections, Carla was a lead canvasser who knocked door after door, after door, asking Los Angeles residents one thing: do...
Ellie Virrueta Ortiz is a community organizer and Policy Associate at Essie Justice Group, the nation’s leading advocacy organization of women with incarcerated loved ones. With over five years of...
Tanasia Newman is an organizer, storyteller, and the Senior Communications Manager at Essie Justice Group, the nation’s leading advocacy organization of women with incarcerated loved ones. Rooted in the expertise...
Executive Director of the African American Roundtable in Milwaukee unpacks their journey from local reform work to a national focus on the prison abolition movement. In April 2014, I witnessed...
Markasa Tucker-Harris is an organizer and master facilitator, trained in conflict mediation, de-escalation, and circle facilitation. She also has a background in media relations and a Bachelor of Arts degree...
In a final essay, Forge contributing editors reflect on how Palestine is the issue most critical to defeating Fascism in the upcoming administration Author Ta-Nehisi Coates has shown remarkable humility,...
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