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.
Aarti Shahani considers the limits of the prevailing framework for immigrant rights and points to the need for structural shifts in policy.
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.