This guide is adapted from messaging developed with the <a href="http://millionvotersproject.org/">Million Voters Project</a>, a coalition of organizing networks in California. It draws upon previous messaging guidance from Nicole Carty and Anthony Torres.
Organizing in the Age of Coronavirus
Larry Kleinman co-founded Willamette Valley Immigration Project in 1977 and PCUN in 1985, both in Oregon’s Willamette Valley. In 2013, he stepped down after 25 years as PCUN Secretary-Treasurer as...
Communications researcher and campaign advisor Anat Shenker-Osorio is the Principal of ASO Communications and host of Brave New Words, a podcast about winning
The coronavirus threatens the world’s economic life. Social distancing measures, essential to fight the epidemic, are sharply reducing demand in sectors such as transportation, restaurants, hotels, and entertainment.
Organizing in the Age of Coronavirus
Emmanuel Saez is a Spanish-born French and American economist who is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. His work, done with Thomas Piketty and Gabriel Zucman, includes...
Un organizador veterano nos ayuda a considerar las preguntas que surgen con respecto a organizar mientras la crisis del coronavirus sigue creciendo cada dia.
Organizing in the Age of Coronavirus
<b id="docs-internal-guid-6a99fd44-7fff-2bbd-b61d-18fc52bc5cb2">A veteran organizer helps us to think through organizing questions as the coronavirus crisis grows by the day.</b>
Organizing in the Age of Coronavirus
The new book by Gabriel Zucman and Emmanuel Saez, <a href="https://wwnorton.com/books/the-triumph-of-injustice">The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay</a> has just come out, and it makes a few things really clear.
Organizer Voices
We inaugurate the From the Archives series with a classic from Cesar Chavez.
From the Archives
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