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7 Out of 10 Abortion Ballot Measures Won Last Night
There were important wins for reproductive justice advocates last night: The first total abortion ban to be struck down at the ballot box, expanded abortion access for Medicaid recipients and public employees, and stronger protections for abortion in state after state after state where grassroots organizers poured everything they had into defending the right to reproductive healthcare.
Last Night, Voters Upheld Abortion Access in TK States
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When Will We Know the Results of the 2024 Election?
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Suddenly, There’s A Lot Funders Can Do To Increase Turnout
The past few weeks have been an exciting time for anyone committed to increasing democratic participation in November. Voter registration numbers are rising, and registered voters who previously wouldn’t commit to voting are now telling pollsters they’ll definitely cast ballots this fall. For funders, this wave of enthusiasm means new opportunities — and an imperative to make sure that everyone who wants to make their voice heard is able to do so. The Excitement Is Real.
Suddenly, There’s A Lot Funders Can Do To Increase Turnout
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Suddenly, There’s A Lot Funders Can Do To Increase TurnoutVoter registration is surging. So is voter suppression.
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Unlocking Impact: Maximizing Philanthropy Ahead of the Election by Bridging c3 and c4 Support
With seven months until the 2024 general election, the urgency of our current moment cannot be overstated. Across the country, rights have been stripped away and major policy decisions are now being determined at the state level. Within this landscape, advocates and lawmakers are increasingly turning to ballot measures as a viable tool to regain and further protect our rights.
Unlocking Impact: Maximizing Philanthropy Ahead of the Election by Bridging c3 and c4 Support
With seven months until the 2024 general election, the urgency of our current moment cannot be overstated. Across the country, rights have been stripped away and major policy decisions are now being determined at the state level. Within this landscape, advocates and lawmakers are increasingly turning to ballot measures as a viable tool to regain and further protect our rights.
Tides Is All In On “All By April”: We’re Meeting the Moment that Our Democracy Demands
Tides Foundation recognizes community organizers urgently need funding to mobilize voters early in the election cycle and get ahead of disinformation. That’s why we’ve pledged to make 80 percent of our democracy-related grantmaking by April 30, 2024 through the All By April philanthropic campaign. Organizers on the frontlines of civic engagement know how to inform and energize voters, but funders must take action now. Why is early funding important?
What We Talk About When We Talk About Gaza
"While some fringe parts of the activist left confusingly mapped on the “Black Lives Matter” vs “All Lives Matter” discourse onto Israelis and Palestinians, where it became inappropriate or uncool to mourn or even acknowledge “Israeli lives,” other leaders showed a different path forward: a politics of solidarity where every human being is precious and has value." Much ink has been spilled in mainstream and progressive media about toxicity on the left as it pertains to its response to the...
What DSA Can Learn from Organizational Death in the Student Movement
“USSA is dead,” my friend told me over the phone. I felt like I had been punched in the gut, even though for years I had known that I would eventually hear these words. After seventy years as the nation’s largest student association, the United States Student Association (USSA) failed to elect new leadership in 2017.
What DSA Can Learn From Organizational Death in the Student Movement
What DSA Can Learn From Organizational Death in the Student Movement Published October 14, 2023 USSA is dead,” my friend told me over the phone. I felt like I had been punched in the gut, even though for years I had known that I would eventually hear these words. After seventy years as the nation’s largest student association, the United States Student Association (USSA) failed to elect new leadership in 2017.
What DSA Can Learn From Organizational Death in the Student Movement
“USSA is dead,” my friend told me over the phone. I felt like I had been punched in the gut, even though for years I had known that I would eventually hear these words. After 70 years as the nation’s largest student association, the United States Student Association (USSA) failed to elect new leadership in 2017.
What DSA Can Learn from Organizational Death in the Student Movement
A decades' long right-wing assault on membership organizations led to the collapse of the US Student Association in 2017. What can organizers take away from the last decade of organizational death in the student movement? “USSA is dead,” my friend told me over the phone. I felt like I had been punched in the gut, even though for years I had known that I would eventually hear these words.
Ohio’s Special Election Is a Big Win for Democracy, and a Preview to 2024
Even though all eyes are on the 2024 presidential election, we cannot miss the important opportunity to celebrate communities and voters who are taking action in 2023. This year, voters in Kentucky, Louisiana, and Mississippi will be electing their next governor. The results of thousands of mayoral, city council, and school board races will determine the future of housing, policing, and education in municipalities across the country.
Bringing Our Humanity to the Long Work of Change
After decades of fighting the Right, Suzanne Pharr and Linda Evans reflect on how to foster connection and community that will feed multiracial organizing.
Chile Shows How Social Movements Can Win Elections
Chileans’ commitment to replacing the country’s neoliberal constitution shaped last year’s presidential election. Nearly 50 years after Chile’s democratically elected socialist President Salvador Allende was ousted in a military coup, a young left-wing legislator rocketed into the country’s top office. Gabriel Boric beat his far-right opponent, José Antonio Kast, in the December 2021 runoff election.
Key to Strategy #3: Assess the Balance of Forces
A hard look at the balance of strengths between the MAGA and anti-MAGA blocs shows that pro-democracy forces must stretch for new levels of coordination and strategy. This is the third a series of columns looking at Left strategy today. Key to Strategy #1 focused on the first component of Sun Tzu’s dictum that to prevail in battle it is necessary to “know the enemy and know yourself.” Key to Strategy #2 focused on the second component.
Against Fatalism: Getting Grounded For the Midterms
We’re in a high-stakes period of a long struggle—but with unity and strategy, a pro-democracy united front can prevail against the racist right. The 2020 presidential election saw the clash between two broad fronts: advocates of a white republic hell-bent on impeding democracy versus an array of constituencies and organizations that recognized Trump as a threat to democracy and racial justice, as they understood both.
Convergence: Towards a Radically Democratic Future
Governing Power Racial Justice Strategy by The Editors Article published: February 14, 2022 Our movements can block the authoritarian right and build multi-racial democracy—if we align to sharpen our practice and shared strategy. Convergence is a magazine for radical insights.
Redestricting requires some flexibility this year - CommonWealth Magazine
Opinion Redraw district lines first, then construct precincts By Cheryl Clyburn Crawford and Beth Huang Elections Jul 10, 2021 THE 2020 CENSUS was unlike any other, with a global pandemic that restricted in-person outreach and a presidential administration intent on undermining the integrity of the count at every turn.
‘The White Republic’: Response by Bill Fletcher, Jr.
Bill Fletcher Jr. argues that to fight the white republic, we must build the politics of a new majority. In “The White Republic and The Struggle for Racial Justice,” Bob Wing contended that the U.S. state is racist to the core, and this has specific implications for our movements’ work going forward, especially the need to replace this racist state with an anti-racist state. Here Bill Fletcher, Jr. kicks off a series of responses to Bob Wing’s article.
Community groups: Employed should consider donating stimulus checks
Breaking News Celtics rally falls short in 113-108 loss to Dallas March 31, 2021 at 11:19 pm We have a modest proposal to some of the 3,622,200 people holding jobs in Massachusetts. Most of us are getting $1,400 stimulus checks on top of the $600 stimulus checks we received in January and some households will get two or more such checks. Some of us getting these checks do not really need this extra $1,400 if we’ve been paid our present salaries.
Corporations need to pay their fair share - CommonWealth Magazine
ALTHOUGH MASSACHUSETTS has entered the first phase of the Gov. Charlie Baker’s controversial reopening plan, the health and economic toll of COVID-19 is far from over. When it comes to state revenues, the picture is bleak — just when our communities need help the most, state revenues from sales, income, and corporate excise taxes are expected to plummet. We desperately need federal assistance, but the likelihood of substantial aid is uncertain.
Democratic Party Elites Are Ready to Steal the Nomination From Bernie Sanders. We Need a Plan to Stop Them.
Senator Bernie Sanders is now the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination. This moment is the culmination of four years of historic progress for socialists, including the election of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to Congress and dozens of socialists to state and local offices, and the mainstreaming of radical demands, from Medicare for All to abolishing ICE.
Massachusetts cannot afford an undercount in 2020 - CommonWealth Magazine
TODAY, THE US SUPREME COURT is hearing oral arguments on the addition of a question about citizenship on the 2020 Census. This proposed question compounds the climate of fear and distrust in the federal government and likely would lead to lower response rates among immigrant communities. Massachusetts has the seventh highest proportion of residents who are immigrants. Our Commonwealth cannot afford an undercount in the 2020 Census.
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