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Guilt Is Not An Organizing Strategy
Featured image by Jared Rodriguez White Flank: Organizing White People for Racial Justice by Chandra Russo, Stanford University Press, 2026 Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links to Convergence’s Bookshop. 10% of purchases made through our bookshop support our movement media work. James Tracy: Tell me a little bit about you and your activist background, that contributes heavily to this book.
What If We Organized Survivors of Sexual Violence?
Every few months America discovers another “monster.” A celebrity. A billionaire. A politician. A religious leader. A professor. A CEO. The details differ, but the story doesn’t: rape survivors risk everything revealing years of abuse, followed by a burst of public outrage and demands for accountability. Then the news cycle moves on.
Addressing Workplace Power Structures Is Fundamental to Both My Own Healing and the Success of…
As a labor and community organizer, I have spent my life fighting for causes that are important to workers — fair pay, benefits, safe working conditions, and an end to discrimination. I feel rewarded that the work that I do often leads to long-lasting change in confronting the corporate power structures to benefit workers and the country. One night, walking to my car after a labor rally, I suffered a trauma that changed me. I was raped. My story isn’t unique.
From Accusatory Questions to Accountability in the Fight Against Workplace Sexual Harassment and Abuse
When I was in my early thirties, a man raped me as I was walking to my car after a labor rally. I was by myself, and I was attacked at gunpoint. I later found out it was a toy gun. This only added to my shame. I’d like to say that I have completely processed and healed from my assault. Much of the time, it feels like I have. I have a fulfilling job as an organizer for social justice.
States use a troubling 'tool' to roll back minimum wage gains
Thousands of minimum wage workers in Missouri became the latest target in a string of successful attacks across the country from states, mostly in the Midwest and South, banning cities from passing progressive legislation, striking down the hope of better living conditions for low-income workers. This happened in Alabama last year when then Governor Robert Bentley signed a law nullifying a Birmingham ordinance to raise the city's wage to $10.10.
An Imperfect Victory for New York Workers
Millions of New Yorkers are celebrating a deal this week to raise the state’s minimum wage. The deal puts a better future in sight for families around the state and sends a powerful signal to other states considering wage hikes of their own. The deal is a testament to the power of organizing. Today’s headlines would be unimaginable just a few years ago. When New York Communities for Change organized the first fast food worker strike – almost four years ago – people thought we were crazy.
More Cities Should Do What States and Federal Government Aren't on Minimum Wage
Mayor de Blasio at his recent minimum wage announcement (photo: Michael Appleton) Early this month, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a guaranteed $15 minimum wage for all city government employees by the end of 2018. This is a big win for over 50,000 workers across the city struggling to provide for their families.
Think The Minimum Wage Will Be Safe Under Labor Secretary Puzder? Not So Fast.
Think The Minimum Wage Will Be Safe Under Labor Secretary Puzder? Not So Fast. This year was supposed to be a good one for America’s workers. After all, nearly 12 million workers won higher wages in 2016, the result of sustained and coordinated efforts around the country. There’s a catch though: if these wages aren’t enforced, American workers will never even see them.
En Ramona Gardens, es empleos vs pandillas | La Opinión
Jóvenes de escasos recursos o que viven en proyectos de vivienda recibieron oportunidad de cambiar su propio destino Jóvenes acechados por el oscuro mundo de las drogas y la violencia relacionada a las pandillas culminaron su participación de más de 100 horas en el Programa de Empleo de Verano en la División Hollenbeck del Departamento de Policía de Los Ángeles (LAPD).
The issue Democrats need to address in the debate
Will they provide relief for working families by presenting real policy solutions that go to the core of what it means to thrive? Or will they trade sallies and barbs in a bid to prevail in a popularity contest, overshadowing the experience of millions of working families in America? Democratic contenders are likely to lament the fate of a declining middle class squeezed by the rapacious appetites of the 1 percent.
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