Organizer Voices
Organizer Voices
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"I Fight For My Family"
"I fight for my family and my neighborhood." Tyla Pond, mother of four, answered her door in Franklin, Indiana to an organizer from <a href="https://www.hoosieraction.org/" target="_blank">Hoosier Action</a>.
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Lessons from the Ferguson Uprisings
Two veterans of the Ferguson uprisings talk about the promises and challenges of Ferguson, what it takes to sustain momentum in the streets, and what organizers today can learn from Ferguson.
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“Cops don’t keep us safe”
Cat Brooks from the Anti Police-Terror Project talks about organizing during the uprisings, what needs to be done to defund the police, and her vision for a national defund movement.
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Planting the Seeds of Abolition
Organizers from the Minneapolis abolitionist collective MPD150 talk about changing the narrative to create the world we want to see.
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Building the Movement for Tax Justice
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.
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Energy Democracy Campaigns: Building the Green New Deal from the Ground Up
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.
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The Sick and the Well: Ableism is the Problem — Medicare For All is the Solution
Examining different experiences (organizing, mobilization, and otherwise), Vinay Krishnan writes about ableism and the fight for Medicare for All.
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From Textathons to Black Joy: How Color of Change is Re-imagining Organizing
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).
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What ACORN Taught Us
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.
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Ten Lessons from Twenty-Five Years in Organizing
My years as a labor organizer have been challenging, joyous, and sometimes devastating, like all organizing. Here are my "top 10" lessons.
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Puja Datta
We need to base build. We’re going to have to have mass obstruction of the economic system. We’re going to have to have mass obstruction of the information system.
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An Interview with Angela Lang
I felt like, if you’re organizing from a place of anger, that is not sustainable at all. I’m trying to figure out different ways to go back to organizing from a place of love.