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...
In this excerpt from the book Civic Power: Rebuilding American Democracy in an Era of Crisis, authors K. Sabeel Rahman and Hollie Russon Gilman discuss restoring American democracy and rescuing it from crisis.
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Anne Nelson's Shadow Network: Media, Money and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right tells a holistic story of the toxic cocktail of extremist political operatives and a right-wing evangelical base. This is the coalition that is winning our day. It is perhaps the greatest threat to our freedoms and to a progressive future and deserves our full attention.
Review in Brief
How many times have you just about gotten to the beginning of a Congressional recess, realized you want to run an in-district legislative campaign to influence them when they’re home from Washington, but didn’t do it because you weren’t sure where to begin?
Arisha Michelle Hatch is the Vice President and Chief of Campaigns at Color Of Change, leading campaigns on civic engagement, voting rights, criminal justice, and corporate and media accountability. Arisha...
Jasmine Gripper is currently the Legislative Director at the Alliance for Quality Education. After spending over 5 years working as a teacher, she quickly realized that education policies impacting the...
Michael Kink is the Executive Director of the Strong Economy For All Coalition, a labor-community coalition that works in New York and around the country on economic, racial and social...
Rosemary Rivera is the Co-Executive Director of Citizen Action of New York, a statewide grassroots membership organization fighting for social, racial, economic and environmental justice at the local, state and...
Jess Wisneski is the Co-Executive Director of Citizen Action of New York, a statewide, grassroots membership organization that fights for social, economic, racial and environmental justice at the local, state...
Hollie Russon Gilman is a Political Reform program Senior Fellow at New America and an Affiliate Fellow at Harvard’s Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. Her work focuses on...
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...
Ganesh Sitaraman is Chancellor’s Faculty Fellow, Professor of Law, and Director of the Program on Law and Government at Vanderbilt Law School. From 2011 to 2013, he served as Policy...
Mary Alice Crim has been an organizer and advocate for community-centered media, arts, and technology for more than a decade. Most recently she was the field director at Free Press...