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organize-iconWhether we are engaging in acts of resistance or creating new, alternative institutions, we need to create sustainable, democratic organizations that empower their members while also protecting against disruption. This section provides articles about effective organizing, creating democratic decision-making structures, building coalitions with other groups, and more. Visit the Resources Page for tools to assist your organizing efforts.

Collective Community In Minneapolis

I heard Joanna Macy talk about a Great Turning many years ago and now we who are on the ground in metro MN are experiencing a powerful manifestation of it. I, who have been longing for this all my life, did not truly expect to witness the profound realms of connection and knowing of our oneness with all of life that we are encountering day by day in multiple ways. I could write a huge amount about the cruelty, the fear, the widespread trauma, the physical injuries, the ripping apart of families, devastation of lives, closure of immigrant businesses throughout the city, and on, but I want this piece to ignite your own visions of who we humans are when we follow love and connection.

University Of Utah Workers Launch Campaign To Improve Conditions

Salt Lake City, UT — On Saturday, February 7, over 100 campus and hospital workers at the University of Utah rallied to launch their “U for Who?” campaign. Workers are fighting to win parking stipends for all employees, safer staffing ratios for teachers and healthcare workers with compensation, respect for the university’s own meet-and-confer policy, and a sanctuary campus from immigration enforcement. Utah Healthcare Workers United (UHWU) and United Campus Workers of Utah (UCWU) are units of Communication Workers of America Local 7765.

How To Build A Real General Strike Against ICE

What will it take to stop ICE and Donald Trump? More and more Americans are coming around to the following answer: a general strike. They’re right to move in that direction. General strikes are a powerful tactic that have defeated corrupt and authoritarian rulers across the world, most recently in Egypt and Tunisia in 2011, Puerto Rico in 2019, and Sri Lanka in 2022. As the union anthem “Solidarity Forever” puts it, “without our brain and muscle not a single wheel can turn.” Unfortunately, last Friday’s national call for “no work, no school, no shopping,” billed widely as an anti-ICE general strike over social media, came nowhere close to the projections of its most vocal advocates.

Haitians In The US Mobilize Against ICE And Deportation Threats

A federal judge blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to revoke Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for 300,000 Haitian immigrants in the US, following intense pressure from over 300 labor unions, faith groups, and rights advocates. The victory however, has done nothing to quell the outrage at the government’s efforts to terminate the protections. Community groups say tens of thousands of Haitian immigrants are especially vulnerable as ICE forces are set to deploy to Haitian hubs in the state of Ohio, Springfield and Columbus, according to a leaked White House memo.

Anti-ICE Organizing Is Creating Counter-Institutions Based On Care

The U.S.’s political landscape — and our daily lives — are increasingly shaped by repression and violence, amplified by a media cycle designed to keep us fearful in the present, uncertain about the future, and depleted. Exhaustion is not a side effect of this system. It is one of its core tools. Last year, I wrote that Donald Trump’s attacks were designed to exhaust us. Over the past year, I’ve watched communities build movements and adapt their organizing under this reality. The Trump administration and the institutions aligned with it — including Project 2025’s policy influence — pushed that strategy to its limits.

Somali Communities Are Building Collective Power

Winter in Minnesota is notoriously harsh, lasting until mid-spring and marked by below-freezing temperatures, heavy snowfall, and intense winds. It is a common misconception that survival requires either hibernation or migration, but blue jays roost communally to conserve warmth through the cold nights, and white-tailed deer congregate in wintering yards, finding safety in numbers. Surviving in hostile climates, whether environmental or political, is impossible in isolation. This is a lesson that Minnesota’s Somali community knows well.

Iowa Nurses Join Teamsters In Hard-Fought Election Win

In a hospital, there is always another patient waiting. As soon as one bed empties, another is filled. At UnityPoint in Des Moines, nurses were expected to keep that system running no matter the cost to our patients, to our licenses, or to ourselves. By 2024 our hospital systems were routinely over capacity, patient wait times were astronomical, and staffing was dangerously thin. Nurses were expected to do more with less, while executives continued to reward themselves. That pressure pushed UnityPoint nurses to do something unprecedented: organize ourselves and become Teamsters.

A Shadow Network In Minneapolis Defies ICE And Protects Immigrants

Minneapolis — If there’s been a soundtrack to life in Minneapolis in recent weeks, it’s the shrieking whistles and honking horns of thousands of people following immigration agents across the city. They are the ever-moving shadow of the Trump administration’s Operation Metro Surge. They are teachers, scientists and stay-at-home parents. They own small businesses and wait tables. Their network is sprawling, often anonymous and with few overall objectives beyond helping immigrants, warning of approaching agents or filming videos to show the world what is happening.

SEIU Renews Drive To Unionize Home Health Care Workers In Virginia

Richmond, Virginia - In what would be a major advance for organized labor in Virginia, Service Employees Local 512 is renewing its campaign to have the state be the official “employer” of thousands of home health care workers in the state to unionize. But to do that, they must first get HB1263/SB378 through the state legislature. It would repeal the state’s Jim Crow-era ban on collective bargaining for state public workers, create a Virginia Home Care Authority to be their employer of record, and create a state Public Employee Relations Board to oversee the whole process—including follow-up union recognition elections.

Transition As A Social Technology

After nearly two decades deeply engaged in this field, the organizing model developed by the international Transition Towns Movement is still the most holistic, accessible, and effective social technology I’ve found for cultivating more resilient, equitable, sustainable, and regenerative local communities from the bottom up. Based on the experience of thousands of Transition groups worldwide, it’s an open-source methodology that anyone can pick up, use, and adapt to their community’s needs, interests, opportunities, and culture, regardless of whether or not they consider themselves part of the Transition Movement.

Labor’s Role In Minnesota’s ICE Resistance

United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol began “Operation Metro Surge” targeting the Twin Cities nearly two months ago. Since then, they have taken the lives of Renee Good and Alex Pretti while terrorizing Minnesota’s immigrant communities. The massive deployment of immigration officers to Minneapolis and Saint Paul has been met with an incredible response from the community. Neighbors have come together to develop complex rapid response networks to track ICE and notify vulnerable people, keep immigrant families fed and protected with strong mutual aid networks, and make their opposition to what amounts to a full-scale federal invasion clearly visible.

Guide To ICE Watch Hotlines And Immigration Resources

Since taking office, the Trump administration has made it clear that going after immigrants is one of its top priorities. In addition to ICE setting a record high of 32 people dying while in its custody last year, at least three more U.S. citizens have been killed by ICE agents this month. Over the weekend, as thousands gathered for a general strike in subzero temperatures to protest ICE presence, federal agents shot and killed Alex Pretti. Just weeks earlier, in the same city, Renee Good was shot point-blank and killed by an agent while in her vehicle. And in Los Angeles, Keith Porter was shot and killed by an off-duty officer while celebrating New Year’s Eve with his family. So far, no arrests have been made and no other accountability measures have been taken.

Organizing Down The Supply Chain: Logistics Workers Win Contract

One hundred and fifty workers at a vehicle processing center in Tacoma, Washington, won their first contract last year, in a huge step for the International Longshore and Warehouse Union organizing down the supply chain. Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics had opened the VPC across the street from a major terminal in the Port of Tacoma, where longshore workers are represented by ILWU Local 23. This “roll-on, roll-off” (ro-ro) terminal handles vehicles and other cargo that is driven on and off ships. Wallenius is the largest ro-ro carrier in the world, with 128 vessels.

Progressive Activists, Officials Condemn Venezuela Attacks

Delegates from governments, parliaments, and social movements across the globe gathered in Bogotá, Colombia, on January 25 for the inaugural “Nuestra América” summit. Convened by the Progressive International at the San Carlos Palace, the emergency congress aimed to establish a unified strategy against what participants described as a “rapidly escalating assault” on Latin American sovereignty. The high-level meeting, featuring 90 people from more than 20 countries, took place against a backdrop of heightened regional tensions and the Trump administration’s express intent to impose its dictates in the Western hemisphere.

The US Workers Who Went On Strike For Gaza

The most significant U.S. labor strike in the past two years in solidarity with Palestinians started with a simple premise. According to Nate Edenhofer, a graduate student at the University of California, Santa Cruz, ​“Everybody has some sort of vision of how they think the society we live in should be — most of them don’t think of it as being a genocide.” Edenhofer was part of organizing that strike, the only major strike so far from U.S. labor to defend the Gaza protest encampments and oppose the mass killing of Palestinians since Oct. 7, 2023.
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