YASHNA: Communities of Care
In this piece, Yashna challenges us to push beyond simplified approaches to “do or die” organizing and individualized self-care to develop a model of “community care.”
Archive for the ‘Cultural Work’ Category
KAI BARROW: Swan Song Manifesto
Community Organizing / Cultural Work / Direct Action / Latest Upgrades / LGBT Movement / Racial Justice / Rebuilding the Left
July 1, 2011 0A child of the late 1950′s longtime left organizer and activist Kai Barrow has a wealth of experience she brings to her work. Here OrgUp excerpts her exit letter as she leaves her staff position at the prison abolition organization, Critical Resistance. In this thoughtful piece, grounded in auto-biography, Kai poses the question “How do we win?” which leads to a second question “What is to be done?”
TUCKER: Thinking Outside the Ballot Box
Chicago resident, Daniel Tucker, asked his neighbors to articulate their vision for the city in a novel community art initiative.
SORIANO: Transformative Communications
Cultural Work / Direct Action / Palestine Solidarity / Racial Justice / Rebuilding the Left
January 11, 2011 13Jen Soriano, communications visionary, calls for imagination and innovation in how we organize, and maybe more importantly how we communicate.
JAGERNAUTH: Just Healing
Tanuja is one of a number of talented movement leaders bringing some healing into justice work, and bringing respect for ancient traditions into healing work.
Cutting-Edge Communications
In this FastForum we hear from some of (but not all) the leading thinkers and practitioners in left communications.
USSF: RICARDO LEVINS-MORALES: Float Like a Butterfly, Sting Like a Bee
In this piece, Ricardo Levins-Morales – veteran movement activist and artist – shares his understanding of the “political ecology of change.”
USSF: Transformative Organizing (SJL)
Transformative Organizing is about creating deep change in how we are as people, how we relate to each other, and how we structure society.
NG’ETHE MAINA: Its Time to Experiment
Ng’ethe Maina makes an honest investigation into our strengths and weaknesses and sheds new light on avenues for innovation, and transformation.
ROBIN KELLEY: Strength to Love & Dream
Community Organizing / Cultural Work / Poor Peoples Movements / Racial Justice / Worker Organizing
February 1, 2010 1Robin Kelley reflects on the hopes and visions that underlie social movements and that can help transcend narrowness and cynicism.
