Evan Casper-Futterman

If you think about politics in these times as fundamentally about building a new kind of social order, rather than rejiggering institutions or party platforms in order to deliver someone’s more favored policy outcomes, contemporary politics makes a lot more sense.

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30.09.2025 23:49 — 👍 59    🔁 17    💬 5    📌 0

I wrote up these definitions and examples for this page for the BCDI website a few years ago, before we merged with northwest bronx community and clergy coalition. Thanks for sharing!

29.09.2025 22:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Building Resilient Organizations - The Forge Click here to listen to Maurice Mitchell read this article. Haga clic aquí para leer el artículo en Español.   Maurice Mitchell talks with Cyndi Suarez of Nonprofit Quarterly about the inspiration beh...

Maurice Mitchell wrote an important internal memo/essay on this point (among others) calling for reflection for those for whom this particular call is coming from inside their own house forgeorganizing.org/article/buil...

28.09.2025 20:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

"Community organizing is both a science and an art — a science because it is grounded in a systematic understanding of power and oppression, an art because it demands creativity, empathy, and adaptability in order to build relationships and trust." - James Forman

03.09.2025 05:46 — 👍 258    🔁 93    💬 1    📌 0

He learned a lot as HUD secretary. The candidate of experience!

11.08.2025 22:28 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Rent Freeze Proposal Chills Cash-Starved Owners of Bronx Buildings Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani’s pledge is raising alarms as bankers refuse to finance regulated buildings where costs outstrip income.

This article on on NYC landlords unable to pay their expenses gives a foretaste of what I suspect the pushback to a rent freeze is going to look like. www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/07/b...

07.08.2025 11:48 — 👍 261    🔁 71    💬 21    📌 43

Ganz killing it here, combining a critical methodological perspective on how polling is done with fundamental political theory about what politics is & what it involves:

06.08.2025 13:56 — 👍 632    🔁 150    💬 19    📌 22

Play fair. Resonate is the world’s first co-operative music streaming service — a multi-stakeholder platform co-operative, democratically governed by its members: artists, listeners and workers.

This is the most prefigurative option I’ve seen but probably comes with some cost in terms of reduced reach/customer base until it grows more. resonate.coop

02.07.2025 21:17 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is a Hall of Fame reader comment on a very reactionary op-ed about Zohran Mamdani's victory that was published in my local paper today.

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I really don’t mean this as a dunk and am glad to see lots of people suggesting truth and reconciliation. But as I understand it these paths are by definition exclusive of eachother: We can have truth and reconciliation or we can have prosecution and incarceration. Both have merits and risks.

17.06.2025 16:44 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

gonna give the ol "support independent, worker run, reader funded media" sign a good tap here

19.12.2024 01:07 — 👍 717    🔁 152    💬 15    📌 3

A Man Was Murdered in Cold Blood and You’re Laughing? What the death of a health-insurance C.E.O. means to America.

"Thompson’s murder is one symptom of the American appetite for violence; his line of work is another."

Jia bringing the 🔥

08.12.2024 14:04 — 👍 180    🔁 57    💬 4    📌 9

A lot of things are going to get worse and I'm feeling a lot of dread and sorrow about that. But I am eager to try to find some way to put all that to work in the service of fixing all the things the worst and cruelest people are so determined to break.

05.12.2024 00:41 — 👍 453    🔁 31    💬 15    📌 1

One academic theory I think helps explain these democratic socialist to MAGA swings that AOC is documenting is Hirschman's "Exit, Voice and Loyalty."

I think these voters think the solution is exit and they see both Bernie and Trump representing that anti-establishment energy.

13.11.2024 16:49 — 👍 384    🔁 49    💬 20    📌 10

another curmudgeonly thread for the many of you who will be entering organizing spaces.

all other things being equal, when confronted with one team of people recruiting you to Be a Thing and another team recruiting you to Do a Thing, please give serious thought to joining the second.

13.11.2024 13:52 — 👍 3933    🔁 987    💬 63    📌 104

i tried to get at this from a different perspective when it comes to the information environment. lotta people aren't dupes out there falling for fake news. they're willing participants and its something worth reckoning with

08.11.2024 23:22 — 👍 331    🔁 82    💬 10    📌 7

I keep coming back to 1876 as the analogy: not the end of competitive elections or the establishment of a nationwide one-party state, but a catastrophic blow to constitutional government from which it took 90 years to sort of recover.
But the North was able to avert its eyes from the consequences, 1

09.11.2024 13:10 — 👍 1129    🔁 268    💬 36    📌 49

Emma holds a microphone as she delivers her victory speech.

Emma speaks to the crowd and news cameras at an election night watch party.

Emma covers her mouth, crying after receiving the news that she won. She’s standing next to two white men looking over her shoulder at the election results.

Emma hugs her campaign manager moments after her race was called.

We’re all hurting. I don’t have all the answers.

But I know that things won’t be this bleak forever.

I ran against a MAGA incumbent in a “safe red” district in KY as a progressive, openly queer, 28-year-old trans woman.

And I won.

Please, don’t let your heartbreak turn into apathy or cynicism 💙

09.11.2024 15:55 — 👍 19019    🔁 4339    💬 368    📌 144

I understand the allure of wanting to be a "carry guns and wear leather jackets" Black Panther but there's a case to be made that the most dangerous ones were the "feed kids breakfast and teach them about settler colonialism" Black Panthers

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