New Article! Wisconsin’s “which side are you on” moment: the April 4 election is “a fight for basic rights, and livelihood, and survival.”

📌 Read our latest: "Abortion Rights, Workers' Rights and the Wisconsin Election" by Marcy Rein here:
https://convergencemag.com/articles/abortion-rights-workers-rights-and-the-wisconsin-election/

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/

Welcome to CONVERGENCE's new publisher, CAYDEN MAK! We are so excited for the bright future ahead! 🚀

https://convergencemag.com/announcements/welcome-to-our-new-publisher-cayden-mak/

“What they thought would be our weakness was our greatest strength. We looked at the people who were getting paid the least, predominantly teachers of color and ESPs of color. And that became a rallying point for all of us.” - MARCIA HOWARD

https://convergencemag.com/articles/a-year-after-its-big-strike-mft-59-stays-steady-and-ready/

New Majority politics trounced law-and-order scaremongering Shelby County, TN. This marks a major win for the national movement seeking criminal justice reform within the electoral arena.

Read our latest article by Jeffrey Lichtenstein and Josh Adams:

https://convergencemag.com/articles/broad-alliance-ousts-racist-memphis-d-a/

UTLA leader Alex Caputo-Pearl reflects on the labor and community organizing that built the winning 2019 strike—and the ways strikes build power for the long fight for racial and economic justice.

https://convergencemag.com/articles/utla-reclaim-strike-showed-what-labor-community-can-do/

New from our ORGANIZING AGAINST AUTOCRACY series, Bob Master takes a close look on labor's role in defending democracy.

https://convergencemag.com/articles/hard-truths-and-good-signs-for-labors-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/