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August 28, 2024
Movement Media Organizations Are Uniting to Build Power
Maya SchenwarLara Witt
Fourteen values-aligned organizations have formed the Movement Media Alliance, a new coalition of social justice-driven journalism platforms...
August 14, 2024
Why Protests Work, Even When Not Everybody Likes Them
Mark EnglerPaul Engler
First in a two-part series explaining protests and polarization. This first part breaks down why protests can be polarizing and how movements can win in moments of polarization, the second part covers what factors determine if a...
Political Organizing, Racial Justice
August 8, 2024
Four Things We Need to Build Power
Anthony Thigpenn
The Forge Interviews Anthony Thigpenn, a community organizer with over three decades of experience, about what it would take to achieve true victory in this political moment. ...
Jennifer Epps-Addison
Jennifer Epps-Addison is Founder and Chief Imagineer at Synergy Power Consulting, a coach-collaborator consulting firm that supports the next generation of social change leaders by drawing on its founder’s nearly 25 years of...
July 22, 2024
How To Build the Power To Win
Miski NoorAndrew Friedman
The Power to Win report interviewed and surveyed close to 300 organizers about what power is, what it isn’t, and whether we have it. Learn more about their insights here.
Community Organizing, Political Organizing
July 18, 2024
Mass Protest and the Missing Revolution: Interview
Andrew Friedman
Andrew Friedman interviews Vincent Bevins, author of The Jakarta Method and If We Burn, which traces the “missing revolution” that followed years of mass protest in the 2010s.
Far Right, Political Organizing
July 16, 2024
How to Build a New World, Locally
Madeline Talbott
Using Chicago's model of volunteer precinct captains can help win elections, rebuild our sense of community, and birth a world worthy of the mass social movements of the 21st century.
Black Lives Matter, Community Organizing, Gender Justice, Political Organizing
Jack Zhou
Jack Zhou (he/him) helps to produce and manage the Climate Advocacy Lab's social science resources for its webinars, workshops, and website.
Lynsy Smithson-Stanley
Lynsy Smithson-Stanley is pursuing her Ph.D. in political science after nearly a decade working on climate advocacy.
July 11, 2024
How Progressive Organizers Can Build Healthier, More Effective Coalitions for Climate Action
Lynsy Smithson-StanleyJack Zhou
Coalition work depends on trust and clarity—here's the blueprint to get there.