The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice

05/02/2025

How do movements build power? With research that maps out who’s in control and how to challenge them. From antiwar campaigns to justice for janitors, past movements have used research to expose power, find leverage, and create change. We can do the same today.

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04/02/2025

As we honor Black History Month, we revisit the voices of Black organizers from our 2021 Uprisings Issue. Their reflections on the role of care, leadership, and building sustainable movements remind us of what’s still at stake as we face new challenges today.

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04/02/2025

Delaney Vandergrift pulls from Black movement thinkers in her latest article, detailing the Democratic Party’s failure to show up for young people. Drawing on the powerful words of Kwame Ture and Charles V. Hamilton: “This push requires a bold readiness to be ‘out of order.’”

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03/02/2025

In 2024, Arizona swung red for Trump, yet voters overwhelmingly backed Prop 139, enshrining abortion access in the state constitution. How did organizers unite people across party lines for this win?

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01/02/2025

The history of Black people in the U.S. is the history of labor organizing, civil rights, and the ongoing fight for rights and dignity for all. This Black History Month, we’ll be honoring the writers, organizers, and revolutionaries whose words and actions have built movements! ✊🏾🔥

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30/01/2025

Israel’s genocide on Gaza and the West Bank isn’t just a crisis of life—it’s a crisis of land. Through greenwashing, Israel erases Palestine’s history while promoting a false narrative of environmental stewardship. How does the destruction of Palestine’s environment fit into a larger colonial agenda?

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29/01/2025

In the United States today, one in four women has an incarcerated loved one. These women are now leading the charge to close Men’s Central Jail and stop Prop. 36. Link in bio 🔗

22/01/2025

ARTIST FEATURE: We’re proud to highlight the incredible work of Lizzie Suarez. Her powerful illustrations are front and center in Left Out: The Missing Election Narratives, our latest issue, which dropped last week!

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21/01/2025

The world we live in isn’t accidental—it’s shaped by systems of violence, where the dreams of pharma companies, oil execs, and capitalists hoard power while people suffer. Vinay Krishnan unpacks the long standing pandemic denialism and lackluster moderation of the COVID-19 pandemic that still plagues in the current moment.

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21/01/2025

Facing autocracy demands more than resistance—it requires us to understand the failures that brought it to power and to organize for a democracy that delivers for everyone.

I know your post-election trauma. My experience as an organizer in Hungary is mediated by a different history, culture, and body, but it draws on some similar anger and sadness. How could they vote for him? Did half of the country go nuts? Why am I sacrificing so much of my life for this society? [....

13/01/2025

After the election, corporate media quickly decided who was to blame. Narratives were set, fingers were pointed, and sweeping generalizations about our communities were presented as fact—without questioning what was overlooked or ignored.

Introducing Left Out: The Missing Election Narratives

In collaboration with , , , and , this special issue brings together essays, reporting and interviews with organizers, voters, volunteers and cultural workers from across the country to reveal the stories that went unreported.

As members of The Movement Media Alliance, a dedicated collective of writers and editors came together to bring those conversations to the forefront, and uplift the transformative struggles that accompanied the election and the seeds of power going forward.

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11/01/2025

For movements trying to harness the energy that emerges during political upheavals, mass training provides a crucial means to develop leadership and bring in new participants. By Paul Engler.

For movements trying to harness the energy that emerges during political upheavals, mass training provides a crucial means to develop leadership and bring in new participants.

17/12/2024

Bill Kopsky, executive director of Arkansas Public Policy Panel argues for a multiracial organizing revival and bold ideas to overcome the divisiveness of a second Trump presidency and make progress on the core challenges facing Americans.

Bill Kopsky, executive director of Arkansas Public Policy Panel, argues for a multiracial organizing revival and bold ideas to overcome the divisiveness of a second Trump presidency and make progress on the core challenges facing Americans.

12/12/2024

For over seven decades, the U.S. Student Association represented millions of students, weathered challenges like CIA infiltration, and championed civil rights and free higher education. Learn how this organization was built in the 1940s and why a new generation is rebuilding it today.

For over seven decades, the U.S. Student Association represented millions of students, weathered challenges like CIA infiltration, and championed civil rights and free higher education. Learn how this organization was built in the 1940s and why a new generation is rebuilding it today.

03/12/2024

Two former staff leaders of Jewish Voice for Peace reflect on what it looks like to build a durable institution capable of winning long-term governing power while remaining agile in moments of crisis.

Two former staff leaders of JVP reflect on what it looks like to build a durable institution capable of winning long-term governing power while remaining agile in moments of crisis.

26/11/2024

Hahrie Han’s new book about an evangelical church is packed with touching moments of human vulnerability and contains important lessons for organizers struggling within workplaces, families, and organizations that often feel hostile to our politics and values. By .qt

26/11/2024

Hahrie Han’s new book about an evangelical church is packed with touching moments of human vulnerability and contains important lessons for organizers struggling within workplaces, families, and organizations that often feel hostile to their politics and values.

Hahrie Han’s new book about an evangelical church is packed with touching moments of human vulnerability and contains important lessons for organizers struggling within workplaces, families, and organizations that often feel hostile to our politics and values. I see Hahrie Han as one of the most i...

19/11/2024

A story of intrigue and power involving union organizers, Black laundry workers, the mafia, and the FBI in 1980s Detroit.

A story of intrigue and power involving union organizers, Black laundry workers, the mafia, and the FBI in 1980s Detroit. Melrose Linen was a hellhole in 1980. A large commercial laundry surrounded by cemeteries in the industrial wastelands of the northeast side of Detroit, serving the city’s elit...