Community Organizing / Fast Forums / Immigrant Rights Movement / Racial Justice
Tags: casa De Maryland, Community Organizing, Congress of Day Laborers, Fast Forum, Human Rights, immigrant rights, Immigrant Rights Movement, Jobs with Justice, Migrant Rights. Voces de la Frontera, Tierra y Libertad, Workers Centers
July 1, 2011
Migrant rights organizers from across the U.S. weigh in the current state of their states and the movement.
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In this FastForum we hear from some of (but not all) the leading thinkers and practitioners in left communications.
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Fast Forums
Tags: Anakbayan, Common Fire, Jidan koon, Katie Joaquin, Kavitha Rao, Mike Tran, Neddra James, Non-profit Industrial Complex, Serve the People, The Revolution Will Not Be Funded
June 1, 2010
FastForum is a forum about organizing. Here we ask: What kinds of work are suited to the non-profit form and what kinds are suited to outside forms?
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Fast Forums / Immigrant Rights Movement
Tags: alto arizona, Black Alliance for Just Immigration, Causa Justa, Diamondback Boycottt, Gerald Lenoir, Gihan Perera, Immigrant Rights Movement, Just Cause, Maria Poblet, Miami Workers Center, Salvador Reza, Sanyika Bryant, SB 1070, State of Hate, Subhash Kateel
May 1, 2010
FastForum is a forum about hot topics in organizing. This month, we asked: What is the significance of the anti-immigrant legislation in Arizona?
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FastForum is a monthly forum about hot topics in organizing. This month, we asked: What strategies for a just and sovereign Haitian recovery should left organizers in the U.S. take up?
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Community Organizing / Electoral Organizing / Fast Forums
Tags: Charles Lenchner, Electoral Organizing, Erik Peterson, Florida New Majority, Jessamyn Sabbag, Mattie Weiss, Oakland Rising, Organizing 2.0, Rishi Awatramani, Virginia New Majority, Wellstone Action, Wellstone Triangle
January 1, 2010
FastForum is a monthly forum about hot topics in organizing. This month, we asked: How does electoral work support or undermine grassroots organizing efforts?
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Community Organizing / Fast Forums
Tags: Grassroots Global Justice, Health care organizing, Health GAP, Healthcare Education Project, Jennifer Flynn, Jonathan Kissam, Michael Leon Guerrero, Randy Jackson, Terry Marshall, Vermont Workers Center, Young Voices Nation
November 1, 2009
Welcome to Fast Forum, the new addition to Organizing Upgrade. Every month, we will pick a hot topic and ask several organizers across the country to weigh in. This month, we asked six organizers for their reflections on the question: What can left organizers learn from the fight over healthcare? Contributors include: Jonathan Kissam, Michael Leon Guerrero, Terry Marshall, Jennifer Flynn, Trishul Siddharthan and Randy Jackson.
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