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Vicki Garvin (December 18, 1915 – June 11, 2007) was a trade union leader, Pan-Africanist, and working-class internation...
27/02/2025

Vicki Garvin (December 18, 1915 – June 11, 2007) was a trade union leader, Pan-Africanist, and working-class internationalist. In the 1950 inaugural issue of Freedom newspaper, her article, “Union Leader Challenges Progressive America,” highlighted the struggles of Black women workers, who faced low-paying, undesirable jobs and exclusion from unions and leadership roles. She urged progressive unions and women’s organizations to address and advocate for Black women’s inclusion in leadership positions across all union levels.

Born in Virginia and raised in Harlem, Garvin became a central figure in the National Negro Labor Council, fighting for Black labor rights in the U.S. workforce and labor organizing. Her leadership extended to international solidarity, where she mentored Malcolm X during his 1964 African tour, fostering connections with revolutionaries in Africa, Cuba, and China.

As Black History Month comes to a close, we’re revisiting the voices of Black organizers featured in our 2021 Uprisings ...
25/02/2025

As Black History Month comes to a close, we’re revisiting the voices of Black organizers featured in our 2021 Uprisings Issue. Toni-Michelle Williams, in collaboration with Abeo Chimeka-Tisdale, share a somatic exercise, a toolkit, and music recommendations designed to make laughter bubble up from your belly.

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Here’s what our team’s been digging into this month! 🔊👀📚 we’re sharing the media that’s keeping us grounded and fueled. ...
21/02/2025

Here’s what our team’s been digging into this month! 🔊👀📚 we’re sharing the media that’s keeping us grounded and fueled. What’s on your list? Drop your current faves below! ⬇️

Lucy Parsons (1851–1942) was a writer, editor, orator, and radical socialist turned anarcho-communist. After moving from...
20/02/2025

Lucy Parsons (1851–1942) was a writer, editor, orator, and radical socialist turned anarcho-communist. After moving from Texas to Chicago with her husband Albert, she helped found the International Working People’s Association and contributed to publications like The Alarm, The Socialist and Freedom: A Revolutionary Anarchist-Communist Monthly. Her article “To Tramps, the Unemployed, the Disinherited and Miserable” was reprinted over 100,000 times in 1885.

Parsons organized marches for seamstresses demanding better working conditions and child labor laws, as well as the Chicago Hunger Demonstrations in 1915. She co-founded the Industrial Workers of the World and worked with the International Labor Defense, which defended labor activist and wrongfully accused Black Americans like the Scottsboro Boys.

Copeland, a disabled organizer and former policy analyst details their experience facing the lack of care in movement st...
19/02/2025

Copeland, a disabled organizer and former policy analyst details their experience facing the lack of care in movement strategy around surviving the current administration.

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This Black History Month, we’re revisiting the voices of Black organizers from our 2021 Uprisings Issue to reflect on th...
18/02/2025

This Black History Month, we’re revisiting the voices of Black organizers from our 2021 Uprisings Issue to reflect on the relationship between movements and organizations, the complexities money brings to the work, and our collective duty to win.

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Our Editor In Chief, Clarissa Brooks, unpacks the phenomenon of solidarity being misunderstood and corrects the record o...
18/02/2025

Our Editor In Chief, Clarissa Brooks, unpacks the phenomenon of solidarity being misunderstood and corrects the record on the origins of the purpose of global solidarity efforts for marginalized people.

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We’re revisiting our conversation with Rachel Schragis and Josh Yoder from Look Loud. Check out how they’re leveling up ...
14/02/2025

We’re revisiting our conversation with Rachel Schragis and Josh Yoder from Look Loud. Check out how they’re leveling up protests everywhere with beautiful, intentional, and powerful art.

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Eslanda Goode Robeson (December 15, 1895 – December 13, 1965) was an anthropologist, writer, artist, and anti-colonial a...
13/02/2025

Eslanda Goode Robeson (December 15, 1895 – December 13, 1965) was an anthropologist, writer, artist, and anti-colonial activist originally from Washington DC. During the Korean War, she wrote the article “Southern Officers Treat Korean POW’s Like Negroes in the South,” published in the July 1952 issue of Freedom.

Despite being under constant surveillance by both American and British intelligence agencies, Robeson’s work took her across the globe, from colonial Africa in 1936, the front lines of the Spanish Civil War, the founding meeting of the United Nations, Nazi-occupied Berlin, Stalin’s Russia, and China two months after Mao’s revolution. She also co-founded the All-African Women’s Freedom Movement in London alongside journalist Claudia Jones.

Poet & Writer, Tamar Ashdot, parses through their family legacy to unpack the legacy of fear that has led American Jewis...
12/02/2025

Poet & Writer, Tamar Ashdot, parses through their family legacy to unpack the legacy of fear that has led American Jewish communities to stay loyal to Zionism while others have rejected it.

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As we honor Black History Month, we revisit the voices of Black organizers from our 2021 Uprisings Issue to reflect on t...
11/02/2025

As we honor Black History Month, we revisit the voices of Black organizers from our 2021 Uprisings Issue to reflect on their work with young people and envision what a childhood free from police could look like.

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Forge editors reflect on how Palestine is central to defeating fascism in the next administration. Progressives’ retreat...
07/02/2025

Forge editors reflect on how Palestine is central to defeating fascism in the next administration. Progressives’ retreat from the Palestinian cause shows the fragility of the resistance.

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The journey from reform to abolition is a process of learning and reimagining. Executive Director of the African America...
06/02/2025

The journey from reform to abolition is a process of learning and reimagining. Executive Director of the African American Roundtable in Milwaukee unpacks their journey from local reform work to a national focus on the prison abolition movement.

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Ethel Minor (November 9, 1938 – September 21, 2022) was a civil rights activist, journalist, and the Communications Dire...
06/02/2025

Ethel Minor (November 9, 1938 – September 21, 2022) was a civil rights activist, journalist, and the Communications Director for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). In the wake of the June 1967 Arab-Israeli War, she wrote the article “Third World Round Up: The Palestine Problem: Test Your Knowledge,” which appeared in the June-July 1967 issue of the SNCC Newsletter. This piece would come to be recognized as the SNCC Palestine Statement.

Originally from Chicago, Minor was also known for her role as Malcolm X’s secretary until his assassination in 1965. Beyond her work with SNCC, she edited much of Kwame Ture’s political correspondence and contributed to Stokely Speaks, a collection of his speeches.

Lead strategists at Working Families Party and The Uncommitted Movement join together to share the lessons and urgent pu...
05/02/2025

Lead strategists at Working Families Party and The Uncommitted Movement join together to share the lessons and urgent purpose that led them to push the Democratic party further left—ending the flow of bombs and bullets to the Israeli government to save lives.

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How do movements build power? With research that maps out who’s in control and how to challenge them. From antiwar campa...
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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As we honor Black History Month, we revisit the voices of Black organizers from our 2021 Uprisings Issue. Their reflecti...
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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Delaney Vandergrift pulls from Black movement thinkers in her latest article, detailing the Democratic Party’s failure t...
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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Building People-Powered Budgets: An Organizers’ Roundtable on 2021 City Budget Campaigns
Building People-Powered Budgets: An Organizers’ Roundtable on 2021 City Budget Campaigns

As the influx of federal relief money flows to our cities, the fight to build equitable budgets that truly meet our communities’ needs is a fight to define the futures of our cities. During this event, you’ll hear a powerful panel of leaders from PowerSwitch Action’s national network and partners speak on the transformational power of reclaiming public money for public goods that benefit all people and build racial and gender justice in our communities. We’ll discuss why budget fights are crucial for shaping our future, the opportunities and challenges they present, and how key takeaways from recent campaigns inform evolving strategies and tactics on the ground. Featuring: - Arielle Klagsbrun: ACRE, Philadelphia. - Kennedy Bartley: Legislative Director, United Working Families, Chicago - Liana Molina: Senior Campaign Director, EBASE, Oakland - jean-huy tran: Organizer, CPI, San Diego Moderated by Edgar Beltrán: Senior Campaign Lead, PowerSwitch Action Hosted by PowerSwitch Action and The Forge

2020 Elections: Taking Stock with Leading Organizers.
2020 Elections: Taking Stock with Leading Organizers.

Some of the best electoral organizers are coming together to take stock of the 2020 US elections and chart the path forward. Join hosts Harmony Goldberg and Ana Maria Archila as they talk to our all-star guests about the tactics that defeated Trump, as well as the strategy for building a progressive majority and governing power around the country. Featuring guests Andrea Mercado, Anthony Thigpenn, Maurice Mitchell, Burt Lauderdale, Elianne Farhat.

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