The climate crisis and the fight for a Green New Deal has opened up a new conversation about energy democracy. Three DSA organizers from different states examine the growing movement for public power in comparison and context.
Organizer Voices
Aaron Eisenberg is a climate activist with the NYC Democratic Socialists of America
Nafis Hasan is a core organizer of #TakeBacktheGrid energy democracy campaign and a member of Boston Democratic Socialists of America
Liz Kantor is one of the co-coordinators of Chicago DSA’s #DemocratizeComEd campaign to municipalize the City’s investor-owned electric utility.
There’s no excuse for recycling tired phrases about “the middle class,” or simply pointing out how Trump is bad, without injecting our own values and vision into the conversation. We know that ignoring race should qualify as political malpractice. Let’s at least make new mistakes. López and his fellow researchers have given us everything we need to get started.
Review in Brief
A Review of <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/lasr.12384">“The Price of Civil Rights: Black Lives, White Funding, and Movement Capture,”</a> by Megan Francis Ming, and<a href="https://uncpress.org/book/9781469652009/poll-power/"> Poll Power,</a> by Evan Faulkenbury
Examining different experiences (organizing, mobilization, and otherwise), Vinay Krishnan writes about ableism and the fight for Medicare for All.
Organizer Voices
Vinay Krishnan is the National Field Organizer for the Center for Popular Democracy. He is a mental health advocate for the International OCD Foundation and the National Alliance on Mental...
The history of taxation in the United States is anything but linear. It’s a story of dramatic reversals, of sudden ideological and political changes, of groundbreaking innovations and radical U-turns.
Hot Off the Press
A research report on capacity building in 501(c)(4) organizations and the role of leadership.
The idea, says Color of Change's chief of campaigns Arisha Hatch, is to center Black joy and to build face-to-face teams, which now number in the thousands, of people meeting and acting locally (and having fun together).
Organizer Voices
It has been ten years since the community group ACORN was destroyed. At its height, The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now was the largest community organization in the United States with chapters in over 100 cities.
Organizer Voices
Gabriel Zucman, born in Paris in 1986, is associate professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of articles published in peer-reviewed journals such as the Quarterly...
Ravi Mangla is the Communications Manager for the New York Working Families Party. Before joining the WFP, he worked as a media strategist for The Justice Collaborative and political trainer...
Elyshya Miller is a 40-year-old Black woman with 2 children, Raireco Miller who is 22 and Zaylon Wallace who is 9 going on 19! Over many years of organizing, she is honored...
Micah L. Sifry is Founder and President of Civic Hall, curator of the annual Personal Democracy Forum, and editor of Civicist, Civic Hall’s news site. From 2006-16 he was a...
Margaret Post is a research assistant professor at Clark University in the Department of International Development, Community and the Environment. Her scholarship focuses on the role of grassroots community organizations...
Charles Khan is the Organizing Director at the Strong Economy For All Coalition, a Coalition of Labor Unions and Community groups focusing on legislative driven campaigns to fight for economic...
K. Sabeel Rahman is the President of Demos, a dynamic think-and-do tank that powers the movement for a just, inclusive, multiracial democracy. Through cutting-edge policy research, inspiring litigation, and deep...
Jeff Ordower has been an organizer for 25 years and got his start as a queer activist in college. A graduate of the AFL-CIO Organizing Institute and an organizer with...