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 / 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.
Community Organizing / Poor Peoples Movements / Urban Struggles / Worker Organizing
October 1, 2009 0Five innovative organizers and movement-builders discuss big-picture left strategy and how left organizers need to adapt our work.
Bill Fletcher reflects on the crises in the economy, the environment and in state legitimacy, and he suggests new priorities for the left.