The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice

September 21, 2026 “Stiner,” a San Quentin Prison correctional officer yelled. “You’ve got mail.” Nearly fifty years after COINTELPRO tore through the Black liberation movement, Watani Stiner found himself staring at a letter he was afraid to open. On the envelope was a name he never expected to see: Ericka Huggins.

September 9, 2026 Part 2 of The Drivers Cooperative Series. The three installments of this series follow the first five years experience of The Drivers Cooperative. In every sector of the capitalist economy, firms have developed business practices that routinize the extraction of surplus value from workers through production of commodified goods and services. This appears as the designation of “Key Performance Indicators” toward which managers optimize the operations of the firm.

September 10, 2026 Cesar Chavez’s sexual assaults were horrific. Sexism in organizing persists and requires the attention of leaders. I’ll present stories and analysis of this sexism from nearly 200 organizers we spoke with at The Women’s Organizing Network.

September 2, 2026 Part 3: Invisible Power, Exploited Disinformation: The Architecture of Manufactured Consent, we explore this psychological terrain. We examine how the architects of the 1898 coup employed media syndicates, fabricated crises, and stereotypical tropes to manufacture the public panic required to justify a violent uprising, and how today’s digital disinformation ecosystems deploy those same methods to fracture modern solidarity.

Two funder organizers share four action steps—drawn from Funders4Palestine’s new Raise the Bar tool—that philanthropy can take to strengthen their commitment to social movements and move away from practices that harm and limit grassroots organizations. Co-published with Nonprofit Quarterly. What happens to progressive philanthropy in times of accelerated imperialism, fascism, and genocide?

How did the architects of Wilmington’s coup moved seamlessly from physical to structural violence? Their use of hidden power exposes how modern institutional frameworks like Project 2025 echo historical legal blueprints to hoard power for a privileged elite. Physical violence is destructive, expensive, and inevitably invites a backlash.

A Conversation About Blackness and Criminalization with Black Alliance for Just Immigration Miski Noor: Nana, I want to start with the fact that your organizing experience is both deep and wide. And so, I’d like to just start with grounding us there. Please tell us what brings you to this work. Nana Gyamfi: I come to this work because it’s part of the work of Black liberation, which is really important to me.

The three installments of this series follow the first five years experience of The Drivers Cooperative. They will draw out insights that can be applied by other activists in our context today, where the left increasingly wields political power, but faces the challenge of materializing meaningful economic change. In May 2021, the front page of the business section of the New York Times featured an unlikely lead story: the launch of The Drivers Cooperative.

August 4, 2026 We examine how the 1898 Wilmington coup exposed the fatal illusion that electoral victories alone can secure lasting power when the ruling class retains control over violence, wealth, and the institutions that enforce both. As the United States marks its 250th anniversary in 2026, our dominant cultural narrative will receive a brilliant polish. We will be told a comforting fable of linear ascension, the myth that America progress is an unbroken, upward line of gradual correction.

How a worker-led coalition won Philadelphia’s POWER Act (the Protect Our Workers, Enforce Rights Act), and how they’re fighting to make it real. A few years ago, one of our members — a Black Caribbean immigrant nanny working in one of Philadelphia’s wealthiest neighborhoods — asked her employer for a written contract. She had that right under the city’s Domestic Worker Bill of Rights, which domestic workers won in 2019. Instead, she was fired on the spot.