The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice

"Organizing, at its core, is about transformation. When that personal transformation happens on a collective level, we unleash the power to transform society. This is as much of a spiritual project as it is a political one."

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Let her victory fuel our ongoing duty. Honor her by continuing the fight for the dignity of all oppressed people. She proved our chains can be broken.

On Thursday, July 24th, just days before the IOF boarded the ship while it was closing in on Gaza, Sonali Kolhatkar reached Chris Smalls on the Handala and spoke with him about what it means to be in solidarity with Gaza.

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Today’s working conditions are making people sick and the widespread failure to recognize how profoundly the workplace shapes health has served to preclude needed progress and reforms.

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The money exists to resist authoritarianism and build something better. What’s missing isn’t resources—it’s imagination.

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Movements thrive when resources flow to both local organizing and national infrastructure. This isn’t the time for false choices. It’s time to invest in the full architecture of movement power.

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Relying solely on outside funding is a long-term threat to an organization. Could community unions be the answer to fight the right?

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In the last three years, 60% of the largest unions in the country have chosen new leadership. This presents an amazing opportunity for these new leaders to position labor as the bedrock of resistance to fascism.

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🧵(1/4) This month, we pay tribute to the incomparable June Jordan. Join us as we revisit her words, reflect on her impact, and celebrate the legacy of a writer who dared to speak truth to power.

While some South Asians climb the ranks of white supremacist power structures, others are building the most vital anti-fascist playbook of our time.

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Ben Carroll, Organizing Coordinator for the Southern Workers Assembly details what it takes to build worker power in Spartanburg County,SC.

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The following case study defines “electoralizing” as a strategy that uses an election to help get a direct win on an issue campaign.

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🧵(4/7) 5. Submit your work for publication. First research the markets that interest you. Seek out and study the books or magazines of publishers to whom you want to sell. Then submit your work. If the idea of doing this scares you, fine.

🧵(7/7) Stay tuned for Part 3 of Octavia Butler's Writing Advice.

🧵(6/7) 6. Forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you’re inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won’t. Habit is persistence and practice.

🧵(5/7) Go ahead and be afraid. But send your work out anyway. If it’s rejected, send it out again, and again. Rejections are painful, but inevitable. They’re every writer’s rite of passage.

🧵(4/7) 5. Submit your work for publication. First research the markets that interest you. Seek out and study the books or magazines of publishers to whom you want to sell. Then submit your work. If the idea of doing this scares you, fine.

🧵(3/7) 4. Revise your writing until it’s as good as you can make it. All the reading, writing, and classes should help you do this. Check your writing, your research (never neglect your research), and the physical appearance of your manuscript. Let nothing substandard slip through.

🧵(2/7) Writing for publication may be both the easiest and the hardest thing you’ll ever do. Learning the rules — if they can be called rules — is the easy part. Following them, turning them into regular habits, is an ongoing struggle.

Here are the rules:

🧵(1/7) PART 2 IS HERE! 📝📚 celebrating the continuation of our writing workshop with Octavia Butlers writing advice-

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The Craft of Campaigns released part one of a two-part special episode. Unlike standard episodes that zoom in on a single campaign, this special zooms out to explore broader strategy themes.

REFRESH on Season 2 before you dive in:
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