🧵(3/3) It’s filled with on-the-ground case studies, frank critiques, and usable frameworks. This is the shared analysis our movements need. Our work. Our tool kit. Our tomorrow.
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🧵(2/3) This issue answers the “how.” How do we dismantle old stories? How do we build new ones that stick? How does cultural work become power-building?
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11.12.2025 18:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
🧵(1/3) Movements win when we change what people believe is possible.
Today, together with Rad Comms, we released “Narrative Power Today for a Radical Tomorrow”, a strategic toolkit built with organizers, not just for them.
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11.12.2025 18:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
TOOLS DOWN. READ UP. "Narrative Power Today for a Radical Tomorrow" is LIVE.
Real strategy, real stories, for the fight to change what’s possible. Dive in, retool, and share widely.
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11.12.2025 18:41 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
The same public subsidies that fund Memphis’s slumlords now bankroll Elon Musk’s pollution, revealing a single, profitable system that organizers are challenging by uniting the struggles for housing and environmental justice.
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11.12.2025 14:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This is a republish of part of a series of CCI substack posts and a policy brief exploring why the United States needs a Green Industrial Policy for Housing.
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11.12.2025 14:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
When floodwaters consumed the only roads into their Appalachian town, the community’s survival hinged on the deep trust and organizing muscle built by a local group over years.
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11.12.2025 14:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The same systemic forces that steal Black communities’ cultural harvest are being met with an unbreakable resilience, as neighbors build solidarity networks, reclaim land, and seed a future where their culture can thrive.
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This interview was conducted in Fall 2025 with Valencia Gunder of The Smile Trust, about Razing Liberty Square, a documentary about the Black community of Liberty City and how they’re resisting climate gentrification.
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11.12.2025 14:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
In this panel, housing organizers have identified our most vital source of resilience as climate disasters intensify: the trust between neighbors, which they are forging into a powerful force for collective survival and justice.
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11.12.2025 13:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
In the face of a hostile legislature and stalled policies, Miami tenants have stopped asking politicians for help and started building their own power—by turning corporate landlords’ financial records into weapons.
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11.12.2025 13:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
In California, disaster-triggered renter protections are a crucial victory that contributes to a just recovery for working-class people facing the climate crisis.
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11.12.2025 13:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Amaya Lin was the Senior Policy Advisor for former Oakland Council President and District 2 Councilmember Nikki Fortunato Bas. She worked with @bayrisingaction to capture organizing lessons with groups working with Bas’ office.
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21.11.2025 16:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The hallways of apartment buildings have become a new front in the climate fight, where tenant unions are battling for survival against the twin threats of negligent landlords and rising heat.
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20.11.2025 16:32 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The era of “holding our lane” is over: we must now choose between building a single-issue movement or preserving the democracy necessary for any movement to survive.
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19.11.2025 15:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Democrats are preparing to sacrifice our ability to organize online for a hollow political victory, and this impending collapse of digital speech protections will cripple social movements at the very moment they are proving most effective.
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17.11.2025 16:15 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
What does it look like to organize at the intersection of housing and climate justice?
Our new retrospective, Right to a Roof: On Climate, Crises, and Care, explores exactly that, with on-the-ground stories and hard-won strategy.
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12.11.2025 16:51 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
"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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23.10.2025 15:47 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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.
03.10.2025 16:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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11.09.2025 15:16 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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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09.09.2025 14:56 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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03.09.2025 14:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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13.08.2025 14:24 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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.
28.07.2025 19:06 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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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