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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.
Three Sets: a Model for the United Front
Drawing on a pair of visualizations found in two well-known books of history, this sketch aims to reinforce a certain way of seeing past incarnations of the Left in the United States. That is to say, a certain way of understanding how these incarnations worked and successfully exerted the power to change the world. In turn, these visualizations provide a certain way of seeing ourselves–the kind of collective historical actor we all aspire to become as we struggle to build today’s US Left anew.
The Struggle for Democracy in Iran Isn’t Over
After this war ends, Iranians will carry on their struggle for democracy, but against even steeper odds in a society gutted by US and Israeli bombs, under a regime that will use the horror of this foreign intervention to justify more domestic repression. For Iranian people who imagine a democratic future, 2026 began with thrilling promise: the largest uprising in a series of uprisings since the turn of the millennium.
The Struggle for Democracy in Iran Isn’t Over
For Iranian people who imagine a democratic future, 2026 began with thrilling promise: the largest uprising in a series of uprisings since the turn of the millennium. It began on December 28, 2025, with a strike of shopkeepers in Tehran’s Grand Bazaar, a social stratum typically supportive of the regime, now fed up with a sharp decline in the national currency.
Labor and the Struggle for Iranian Democracy
For Iranian people who imagine a democratic future, 2026 began with thrilling promise: the largest uprising in a series of uprisings since the turn of the millennium. It began on December 28, 2025 with a strike of shopkeepers in Tehran’s Grand Bazaar, a social stratum typically supportive of the regime, now fed up with a sharp decline in the national currency.
Independent Political Organizations: A Strategy in the Making
Under the radar across the United States, organizers have been testing a political strategy to save, expand, and recast our multi-racial multi-gendered democracy.
Independent Political Organizations: A Strategy in the Making
Under the radar across the United States, organizers have been testing a political strategy to save, expand, and recast our multi-racial multi-gendered democracy.
Environmental Racism and Social Injustice at Military Bases
Camp Lejeune is one of many military bases across the United States with a history of severe contamination. Built in 1942, it covers over 156,000 acres in Jacksonville, North Carolina. From the beginning, its mission was to train marines and sailors for war. Between 1953 and 1987, one million people lived at Camp Lejeune, all of whom are now at high risk of developing serious health problems due to drinking tainted water.
Pro-Blackness as a Way of Knowing and Being
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Contributing Worth to the Work Towards Liberation
Darnell Adams: So, one is, my article is long. I didn’t expect it to be that long, you know? I was writing about a thing, and then it was connected to the next thing, which was connected to the next thing. So, I, too, am unclear who’s sitting down and reading the whole thing. And my sense is, so for people who are in my close network who have read it, because they probably were like, well, we love Darnell, we should read it. They’ve said they needed to read it about three times.
Linking Racial and Economic Justice: The Struggle of Our Time
Last month, Prosperity Now, a national economic and racial justice nonprofit, hosted its first national in-person conference since 2018. Held in Atlanta, Georgia, the conference attracted over 1,200 people, making it one of the largest gatherings of racial and economic justice advocates since the start of the pandemic.
To Fight for Equality in Connecticut, a New Coalition Takes Shape
This article is the sixth installment in our series co-produced by Bargaining for the Common Good and NPQ, titled Building a Movement for the Common Good. In this series, we learn how and why Bargaining for the Common Good (BCG) is the right strategy for our times of social crisis, featuring extreme wealth inequality and declining democracy as well as a renewed attention to labor organizing and mass uprisings for racial justice.
Critical Race Feminism and Common Good Unionism
This article is the fourth installment in our series co-produced by Bargaining for the Common Good and NPQ, titled Building a Movement for the Common Good. In this series, we learn how and why Bargaining for the Common Good (BCG) is the right strategy for our times of social crisis, featuring extreme wealth inequality and declining democracy as well as a renewed attention to labor organizing and mass uprisings for racial justice.
Letter to the editor: Column follows same old tired formula
Last week, the Journal Inquirer published a piece from Chris Powell, a columnist who frequently targets the hardworking people across Connecticut who have joined together to organize unions and improve their lives. It is his disdain for all working families across the public and private sectors that fuels his misinformation campaigns to try and sway the public against unions.
Showdown in Connecticut: Fighting Inequality in One of the Nation's Most Unequal States
Since the start of the pandemic, Connecticut’s fourteen billionaires have seized $12.6 billion in additional wealth—while hundreds of thousands of working people across the state, especially working people of color, are suffering. As the converging crises over the last year and a half have underscored, Connecticut has become a microcosm of the extreme racial and economic disparities in the United States. It consistently ranks as the wealthiest state here in the world’s wealthiest country.
Fighting Inequality in One of the Nation's Most Unequal States
Since the start of the pandemic, Connecticut’s fourteen billionaires have seized $12.6 billion in additional wealth — while hundreds of thousands of working people across the state, especially working people of color, are suffering. As the converging crises over the last year and a half have underscored, Connecticut has become a microcosm of the extreme racial and economic disparities in the United States. It consistently ranks as the wealthiest state here in the world’s wealthiest country.
Fighting Inequality in One of the Nation's Most Unequal States
Since the start of the pandemic, Connecticut’s fourteen billionaires have seized $12.6 billion in additional wealth—while hundreds of thousands of working people across the state, especially working people of color, are suffering. As the converging crises over the last year and a half have underscored, Connecticut has become a microcosm of the extreme racial and economic disparities in the United States. It consistently ranks as the wealthiest state here in the world’s wealthiest country.
Building Strategic Blocs to Demand a People’s Recovery
As multiple planetary crises converge — the pandemic, lethal racial oppression, ecological destruction, plus an economic disaster shaping up to become this century’s Great Depression — every single state across the country is hurtling down the fiscal abyss. And there appears to be no end in sight. Facing astronomical revenue shortfalls, state governments have begun to slash services and lay off workers at a time when society obviously needs them most.
No shortcuts to organizing
August 26, 2019 by Puya Gerami Jane McAlevey’s No Shortcuts has been read by hundreds of DSAers and discussed in online book discussion groups this summer. She recently spoke with Puya Gerami to answer frequently raised questions. The interview has been slightly edited for space. Union membership, strike frequency, and working-class living standards have plummeted over the last four decades. How do you explain the existential crisis facing the labor movement today?
White House Recognizes Homelessness “Champions of Change”
July 12, 2012; Source: Santa Cruz Sentinel (Mercury News) Did you know that the White House regularly honors community leaders, often nonprofit leaders, as “Champions of Change?” There might not be a lot of money left in the federal budget for nonprofits, but at least some nonprofit leaders are getting recognition that reverberates back to their hometowns and adds credibility and profile to their work.
Nursing Home Patients and Workers Are at Ground Zero for Coronavirus
Ever since the coronavirus devastated the Life Care Center of Kirkland in the state of Washington in February, nursing homes have rapidly become the country’s deadliest hot zones. Harrowing scenes abound all throughout the country: residents dying left and right over a matter of days; staff falling ill as they plead for more personal protective equipment (PPE); bodies piled in a shed for want of space. We need to recognize the sheer magnitude of this nursing home crisis.
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