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Tag: systems thinking

Some of the posts here are serious considerations of campaign issues. Others are spur-of-the-moment, thinking-out-loud. Still others are just funny. (Well, we think they’re funny.)
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“They Said It Out Loud!”

A few weeks ago, my co-conspirators and I facilitated our quarterly workshop called “Disrupting White Supremacy Culture in Nonprofits.” It’s based on the Characteristics of White Supremacy Culture in Organizations, developed by Tema Okun. Some of the comments we hear

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American Capitalism vs. Humanity

Trigger warning: there is some graphic language about the violence of slavery and the treatment of Indigenous people. The bedrock of the American economy is the belief that everyone can be rich if we just work hard enough. For example,

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Root Causes and Organizing Strategy Coaching

Big news! Starting this month, Organizing to Win’s (OTW) mission expands to include white supremacy disruption consulting and organizing strategy coaching. If you read the Organizing to Win newsletter regularly (thank you!), you may have noticed an emphasis on what