Community Organizing / Latest Upgrades / Poor Peoples Movements / Racial Justice / Urban Struggles
March 1, 2010 0Organizing Upgrade is honored to preview this insightful reflection on organizing against budget cuts in Philadelphia which will appear in the next issue of Left Turn magazine.
Community Organizing / International Solidarity / Latest Upgrades / Racial Justice / Urban Struggles / Worker Organizing
March 1, 2010 0Cindy Wiesner, Political Coordinator of the Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, reflects on the organizing towards the 2010 U.S. Social Forum which will take place in Detroit in June. She call on organizers to come prepared to ask ourselves hard questions and to put forward bold solutions and collaborations.
Community Organizing / Cultural Work / Poor Peoples Movements / Racial Justice / Worker Organizing
February 1, 2010 0Robin Kelley reflects on the hopes and visions that underlie social movements and that can help transcend narrowness and cynicism.
Ai-jen Poo reflects on the current political moment and offers lessons from her 15 years of on-the-ground organizing.
Makani explores how the Obama Movement obscured and now pushes us to redefine our notions of “progressive”, “the State” and “the Left.”
Michelle explores the implications of the Copenhagen Climate Conference for left organizers in the United States.
Noura spoke with Organizing Upgrade earlier this year to provide a candid assessment of the Palestinian movement.
Community Organizing / Direct Action / Electoral Organizing / Racial Justice / Urban Struggles
December 1, 2009 1In this piece, Gihan encourages experiments in the electoral arena as well as seemingly contradictory prefigurative direct actions.
Community Organizing / Direct Action / Poor Peoples Movements / Racial Justice / Urban Struggles
November 1, 2009 6Willie Baptist reflect on the pitfalls of the left and the lessons we should learn from MLK’s Poor Peoples Campaign.