The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice

The Forge is an online journal & community for progressive organizers in US & beyond. By and for community, labor, electoral, digital & movement organizers.

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We organized a special issue with @liberation_gen — "The Corporate Power of It All" — and it's now live! Seven conversations with organizers, researchers, and frontline leaders on how corporate power shapes our lives and how we fight back.

Read it here: https://t.co/TGsxxiU7jx

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Calling all organizers: ready to strengthen your writing? In this 6-week workshop (June 17–July 22), you’ll develop an article, get feedback, and learn how to pitch your work. Space is limited. Deadline to apply May 4th!

APPLY HERE: https://t.co/0LzJtK9p5g

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Tap in to our Narrative Power Issue!

This concrete blueprint shows that the antidote to fascist distraction is seizing the moral high ground and making narrative “everybody’s job” within a coalition.
https://t.co/p7JZwlNHMn

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Did you miss our Narrative Power Issue? Read Now!

To counter the well-funded, agile anti-immigrant narrative, the immigrant justice movement must fundamentally overhaul its own fractured infrastructure.
https://t.co/KpSBuEPCba

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Target is based in Minneapolis and has refused to take any stand, even after ICE abducted one of its employees and after it murdered an innocent man today

Community members in Minneapolis have begun sit-ins and boycotts against @Target, demanding it defend its customers, employees, and community members against ICE

Everyone in the US should follow their lead

SIT INS, PROTESTS, BOYCOTTS, SICKOUTS AGAINST TARGET AND ALL OF ICE'S CORPORATE COLLABORATORS

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ICE OUT OF EVERYWHERE! We stand in solidarity with Minnesota! Join the coalition of over 90 unions, organizations, and businesses to SHUTDOWN ICE.

TODAY, Friday, January 23:
NO WORK
NO SCHOOL
NO SHOPPING

More info at🔗https://t.co/AUw9MFnk0l

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Building a stronger pipeline of organizing talent fundamentally depends on making sure organizers can stay in the field. Better labor standards are a crucial component of those conditions.

READ HERE: https://t.co/3kG6mK5UAw

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🧵(3/3) It’s filled with on-the-ground case studies, frank critiques, and usable frameworks. This is the shared analysis our movements need. Our work. Our tool kit. Our tomorrow.

READ NOW: https://t.co/Zl2BOi39VG

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🧵(1/3) Movements win when we change what people believe is possible.

Today, together with Rad Comms, we released “Narrative Power Today for a Radical Tomorrow”, a strategic toolkit built with organizers, not just for them.

READ NOW: https://t.co/EPQDcLIPBe

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🧵(2/3) This issue answers the “how.” How do we dismantle old stories? How do we build new ones that stick? How does cultural work become power-building?

READ NOW: https://t.co/EPQDcLIPBe

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TOOLS DOWN. READ UP. "Narrative Power Today for a Radical Tomorrow" is LIVE.

Real strategy, real stories, for the fight to change what’s possible. Dive in, retool, and share widely.

READ NOW: https://t.co/Zl2BOi39VG

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The same public subsidies that fund Memphis’s slumlords now bankroll Elon Musk’s pollution, revealing a single, profitable system that organizers are challenging by uniting the struggles for housing and environmental justice.

READ NOW:
https://t.co/wwtym0VWtu

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What does it look like to organize at the intersection of housing and climate justice?

Our new retrospective, Right to a Roof: On Climate, Crises, and Care, explores exactly that, with on-the-ground stories and hard-won strategy.

Available now:
https://t.co/LGi7F5Uy6Z

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This is a republish of part of a series of CCI substack posts and a policy brief exploring why the United States needs a Green Industrial Policy for Housing.

READ HERE:
https://t.co/8fE00JGfaW

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@workingeastbay @APENaction @OaklandAction

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Amaya Lin was the Senior Policy Advisor for former Oakland Council President and District 2 Councilmember Nikki Fortunato Bas. She worked with @bayrisingaction to capture organizing lessons with groups working with Bas’ office.

READ NOW:
https://t.co/2FRPQR0zM8