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January 14, 2021
What the Teacher Strikes Taught Us — And What We Still Need to Learn
Alexander Hertel-Fernandez
Mass teacher strikes took the nation by surprise in 2018 and 2019. What can we learn from the teacher strikes for the future of public schools and the labor...
Labor Organizing
Alexander Hertel-Fernandez
Alexander Hertel-Fernandez is an associate professor of public affairs at Columbia University and a fellow with the Roosevelt Institute.
Arnie Graf
Arnie Graf was an organizer and supervisor with the Industrial Areas Foundation from 1971-1978 and 1980-2016. He served as its co-executive director from 2010-2012.
January 22, 2021
A Divide on the Commons
Arnie Graf
An excerpt from Lessons Learned: Stories from a Lifetime of Organizing
Community Organizing
December 15, 2020
Who Showed Up in Michigan, and Why It Matters
Branden Snyder
Our willingness to experiment with new tactics and our insistence on inspiring voters through substantive demands offer a model that the Democratic Party would be wise to follow.
Branden Snyder
Born and raised on Detroit’s East Side to a working-class union family, Branden has been involved in faith, electoral and community organizing projects throughout the United States for over ten years.
December 15, 2020
Our Movements Beat Trump. Now What?
Maurice Mitchell
Movement power saved the country from four more years of Trump, but our anti-majoritarian system still shut us out of true governing power. How do we build enough...
December 15, 2020
The Power of Pluralism
Renata Pumarol
In order to defeat facism, capitalism, and white supremacy — the forces that are killing and oppressing our communities — we must organize against racism in every...
December 15, 2020
The Work Ahead of Us
Doran Schrantz
The notion that we could reclaim our innocence through this election was always naive. We inherited a knotty, intractable, bloody, painful, and extraordinary...
December 15, 2020
Democrats Should Take the “Wine Moms” Seriously
Katie Paris
Lessons from a “get your people” project