Disrupting education for fake free speech, with Thomas Gunderson
The battles over “free speech” on campus have loomed large in the era of Trump, with conservative provocateurs invited to campuses across the country only to claim that they are being silenced when...
View ArticleFrom the Fight for $15 to city council, with Stephanie Gasca
Stephanie Gasca is one of many people this year moving from social movement, community, and labor organizing work into campaigning for office. She got her start with the Fight for $15, and works for...
View ArticleOut of the headlines, the labor movement works to rebuild Puerto Rico, with...
The rumors always come when disaster strikes, it seems–failures of the disaster recovery system are blamed on rank-and-file workers. As Dan Maldonado of Teamsters local 445 notes, the rumor this time...
View ArticleTaking back control of Philadelphia’s public schools, with Antoine Little and...
Philadelphia’s public schools have been a political football for years, under the control of the state and systematically underfunded. But after sixteen years of organizing, a new mayor and a new...
View ArticleMitigating the medium-term disaster and making long-term change in Miami,...
Miami is recovering from Hurricane Irma slowly, but weeks out from the storm, secondary effects are creeping in. Organizers from the Miami Workers Center have seen up close the primary and secondary...
View Article“As goes the South, so goes the nation,” with Libby Devlin, Saladin Muhammad...
The Southern Movement Assembly is on its seventh year of bringing together movement organizers from across the U.S. South to strengthen relationships, build a deeper political analysis, and connect...
View ArticlePutting Socialists in Office, with David Duhalde
The Democratic Socialists of America had a good night on election night, electing two endorsed candidates and 15 of its members to offices in cities and states across the U.S. From Peekskill, NY to...
View ArticleWhat could we spend $95 million on rather than police? With Monica Trinidad
Chicago plans to spend $95 million on a new police academy, but Chicagoans are organizing against it. A coalition of groups that have worked together successfully to bring about reparations for police...
View ArticleBuilding nationwide political power, with Joe Dinkin
The Working Families Party began in just a few states with a very specific strategy, utilizing “fusion” voting laws to gain a ballot line and cross-endorse progressive Democrats. But lately it’s been...
View ArticleClass warfare in a tax bill, with Michael Kink
“Whether or not you agree with fighting class warfare on behalf of workers, the billionaires declared class warfare on everyone,” says Michael Kink of the Republican tax bill. Earlier tax-cut plans...
View ArticlePutting trickle-down cash into the contract, with Jody Calemine
Trump says his tax cuts will give every American a $4000 raise. But American labor unions have been burned by trickle-down claims for decades, because the wealth has just been zooming upward faster...
View ArticleThe real-world fallout of wealth consolidation, with Kevin Borden
On the day the Republican-controlled Senate voted to give a huge tax break to billionaires, Kevin Borden was in Austin, Texas with members of Manufactured Home Action (MH Action), a nationwide...
View ArticleMainers challenge Susan Collins’s vote for tax cuts, with Mike Tipping
Maine Senator Susan Collins was one of three votes to stop ACA repeal. But last week, after getting empty promises that are already being walked back, she voted for a tax bill that include big...
View ArticleTaxing people out of higher education, with Tom DePaola
One of the remarked-upon features of the House version of the Republican tax bill currently headed to reconciliation is that it would tax tuition waivers given to graduate students who do much of the...
View ArticleTrump is not on the side of the Jews, with Sarah Brammer-Shlay
Donald Trump’s decision to move the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem provoked cheers from evangelical Christian groups and some far-right donors, but in fact, says Sarah Brammer-Shlay of Jewish...
View ArticleServe your constituents or grow your own wealth, with Campus Action for...
Rep. Trey Hollingsworth of Indiana is one of the richest members of Congress; he is, as the members of Campus Action for Democracy point out, a prime beneficiary of the Republican tax bill poised to...
View ArticleDown to the wire to stop the tax scam, with Sarah Chaisson-Warner and Jessica...
The Republicans think they have the votes to pass their massive tax cut package. But their constituents aren’t done fighting. From Kittery, ME to Nashville, TN and elsewhere around the country, groups...
View ArticleOrganizing one by one for DREAMers and system change, with Alfredo Pacheco
Coming down to the end of the year, the DREAM Act that Democrats and even some Republicans have claimed to want to pass for years has still not been passed, despite renewed urgency due to Trump’s...
View ArticleLaunching the new Poor People’s Campaign with Rev. Emily McNeill
When Martin Luther King Jr. died, he was in the middle of building the Poor People’s Campaign–a multiracial endeavor challenging America’s persistent class divide. But the campaign was left...
View ArticleBuilding rural power with Down Home North Carolina
Brigid Flaherty moved home to rural North Carolina after the election of Donald Trump to put her years of organizing experience to work “down home,” bringing together a multiracial organization of...
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