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It will take everything we’ve got to stop MAGA in 2024 and make their nightmare of a multiracial, gender-inclusive democracy come true. Either/or strategies won’t do. We need to hold the tensions of playing both offense and defense, and building with those holding divergent views.
Read the latest from Max Elbaum:
https://convergencemag.com/articles/beat-maga-shape-the-direction-of-the-country/
“The Great Escape is the most page-turning book about organizing that I have ever read. In it, there are a dozen scenes that are absolutely iconic organizing situations, moments that seasoned organizers will recognize and budding ones will strive for.”
Read George Goehl's full review of #TheGreatEscape from organizer Saket Soni, at Convergence:
https://convergencemag.com/articles/book-review-saket-sonis-the-great-escape/
New from our ORGANIZING AGAINST AUTOCRACY series, Bob Master takes a close look on labor's role in defending democracy.
NEW EP: BLACK WORK TALK with @Carroll Fife!
"A Movement Person Having A Political Experience"
On Episode 18 of Black Work Talk, Fife and co-hosts Steven Pitts and Lauren Jacobs explored what it means to bring movement practice to elected office.
LISTEN NOW!
https://tinyurl.com/ysbu9wca
McCarthy got his gavel, but MAGA pulls his strings. The GOP is comfy with armed fascists, SCOTUS is rolling back the 20th century. Time to get busy.
New from Max Elbaum: https://convergencemag.com/articles/the-maga-threat-is-greater-today-than-in-2020/
Bill Fletcher Jr. argues #B4—the Broad Front Opposing the Right—can’t be about the status quo. While it must be aimed at defeating all attacks on our democratic rights, its thrust must be to expand democracy and shift US domestic and foreign policy.
Read it here: https://convergencemag.com/articles/b4-its-too-late-the-socialist-lefts-role-in-fighting-autocracy/
Smart organizing pushed back MAGA in battleground states. Everywhere else, Republicans—w/ their clap-back to the gains of the Civil Rights Moment—carried the day.
DaMareo Cooper, Kendra Cotton, Michael Podhorzer, and Nancy MacLean in conversation with Matthew Hanson.
Read here: https://convergencemag.com/articles/debriefing-the-2022-midterms-hard-wins-and-historic-threats/
New in our #PeopleSideEconomics series: Heather McGhee reminds us that to tell an impactful story about the economy, we have to talk about power. We must place blame where it’s due, and name how collective action benefits us all.
Read here: https://convergencemag.com/articles/people-side-economics-explaining-the-rules-of-the-economy-game/
Check out our new multi-media series by Maurice Mitchell of
@WorkingFamilies on #BuildingResilientOrgs. Read, watch, listen—and discuss how we can build a stronger, more effective movement for justice.
Co-published with The Forge and Non-Profit Quarterly.
See the whole series here: https://convergencemag.com/series/building-resilient-organizations/
Eddie Wong talks to Jungsoo Ahn of Rising Voices about the multi-ethnic coalition that powered Michigan's midterm wins.
https://convergencemag.com/articles/multi-ethnic-coalition-wins-in-michigan/
