Community Organizing / Direct Action / Occupy Wall Street / Poor Peoples Movements / Racial Justice / Urban Struggles
November 1, 2011 0Organizers from Community Voices Heard & VOCAL reflect on their organizing around revenue and their relationships with the Occupy movement.
A critical look at the Obama Administration’s new call to review many of the pending 300,000 deportations cases in the country.
Migrant rights organizers from across the U.S. weigh in the current state of their states and the movement.
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?”
Ng’ethe Maina makes an honest investigation into our strengths and weaknesses and sheds new light on avenues for innovation, and transformation.
Hashim and Tiffany Yeomans-Benford share their vision of love-based action and why we won’t win if we don’t open our hearts.
Makani explores how the Obama Movement obscured and now pushes us to redefine our notions of “progressive”, “the State” and “the Left.”
Organizing Upgrade is a space for open strategic dialogue between left leaders from the field of community organizing.
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.
