Have you ever had a drop the mic moment? I’ve had one and the recognition came from an unexpected place. It was during a prep session for an organizing training. We anticipated that the folks who came to this session
Originally published in March 2022 Recently, a friend and I were debating the rhetoric around parents’ control over their children’s education. He felt strongly that to give parents a say in curriculum, lesson plans or strategies would be untenable nonsense.
Originally published in February 2022 The upcoming midterm elections have me thinking about organizing. (Doesn’t everything?) A political campaign isn’t organizing. If we’re going to win long-term, election campaigns should be an opportunity for organizing. Our objective should be to
Originally published in January 2022 Recently, I was part of a facilitation and coaching team for a multi-month training program for new organizers in the education space. As a training team, together we have over 150 years of organizing experience.
Originally published in December 2021 Remember all those memes from the end of 2020? When we thought “Whew. 2020 is done. Come on 2021!” And we thought it would be all over, like a bad dream. As it turns out,
Originally published in November 2021 Earlier this year, I started to think about what I had done in past in campaigns and projects that perpetuated, rather than disrupted, white supremacy, even if I didn’t know it at the time. Most
Organizing to Win has joined with a new venture called Sustainable Futures (SF) to organize with historically excluded communities in Atlanta. Founder Adrienne Rice’s dream is to build “green economy pathways for ‘Black’ and people of color in the South
With guest co-author Ash Lynette. As organizers, Ash and Mira see our roles as bringing people together to build power. Ash is a senior resource organizer at the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights (EBC). Mira is the founder and
We have so much more work to do to rid ourselves of this system of white supremacy.
If all we do is scramble to win elections every two years, that’s all we’re ever going to do.
