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Whether 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.

Seattle Planned To Close Up To 21 Public Schools; Here’s How We Stopped Them

December 19, 2024 Jesse Hagopian, Truthout. Organize! Education, Public schools, School closures, Seattle, Victory

From coast to coast, school districts are proposing closures, as pandemic-era funds have long since dried up and gentrification has driven families out of increasingly unaffordable neighborhoods. Yet in a time when budget cuts threaten public education nationwide, Seattle organizers have shown that communities can fight back — and win. After initially proposing in spring to close up to 21 schools — and, under immense pressure, reducing that number to four — Seattle Public Schools (SPS) announced in late November that it was canceling all plans to close schools.

Declaration Of The International Conference Cuba 2024

December 18, 2024 Conference Organizing Committee, Black Agenda Report. Organize! Cuba, Equality, Equity, International Conference, Social Justice

From December 9th to the 13th, the 240 delegates, coming from 30 nations from four continents, gathered for the International Conference “Cuba 2024 Decade for People of African Descent. Equality - Equity - Social Justice”, that took place in the cities of Havana and Matanzas. Attended by 103 delegates from Cuba and 137 from the following geographical áreas: From the Americas: Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Barbados, Belize, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, United States, Guyana, Jamaica, Mexico and Panama. From the African continent: Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Comoros, Ghana, Niger, Senegal, Somalia, Togo and Kenya.

UFCW Locals Block Kroger-Albertsons Mega-Merger

December 18, 2024 Lisa Xu, Labor Notes. Organize! Albertsons, Grocery Workers, Krogers, Mergers, Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs

In a victory for labor—and in particular, for a coalition of United Food and Commercial Workers local unions—judges in Oregon and Washington state have separately ruled against the proposed mega-merger of Kroger and Albertsons, effectively blocking it and leading Albertsons to terminate the merger agreement. On December 10, a federal district court in Oregon upheld a preliminary injunction on the merger requested by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). On the same day, a court in Washington also ruled against the merger in a separate suit brought by the state’s attorney general.

A History Of Success Drives The Ongoing Struggle To Clean Up Cancer Alley

December 17, 2024 Sue Inches, Waging Nonviolence. Organize! Cancer Alley, Environment, Fossil Fuels, health, Louisiana

Two days after the election, I left on a research trip to Mississippi and Louisiana. I joined four others from my church in Yarmouth, Maine. Our purpose was to witness and learn about the struggle for civil and environmental rights in a region known as “Cancer Alley.” This 85-mile stretch of the Mississippi — between Baton Rouge and New Orleans — is home to 150 petrochemical plants, all along the river. It is also home to many working-class people, a majority of them Black. The first thing you notice are the huge refineries. Tall smokestacks spew toxic chemicals and methane flares light up the sky. The scale of industrialization is hard to imagine — there are miles and miles of factories and chemical plants.

ALBA-TCP Summit Approves Declaration Of Principles And Commitments

December 16, 2024 Ana Perdigón, Orinoco Tribune. Organize! ALBA-TCP, BRICS, Cuba, Nicolas Maduro, US Blockade, Venezuela

The 24th Summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-People’s Trade Treaty ( ALBA-TCP ) ended with the unanimous approval of the Declaration of Principles and Commitments by the heads of state and government of the regional cooperation bloc. The declaration was agreed upon by the leaders and high-ranking representatives who attended the summit held in Caracas, Venezuela. At the closing ceremony on Saturday, December 14, it was issued under the name “Special Declaration of the 24th ALBA-TCP Summit: Reaffirmation of the Principles, Objectives, Commitments and Banners of Struggle of ALBA-TCP,” 20 years after its founding.

Sovereignty, Modernization, And Cooperation Championed At Global South Forum In Shanghai

December 14, 2024 Shiran Illanperuma, People's Dispatch. Organize! Academics, China, Global South, Internationalism, Multilateralism, Multipolarity, New Cold War

Panelists and attendees championed the cause of sovereignty, modernization, and South-South cooperation at the Global South Academic Forum in Shanghai from December 5–6. Over 250 guests from 35 countries and regions attended the forum, whose theme was “Global South and Global Modernization.” The forum was hosted by East China Normal University (ECNU) and organized by the institution’s School of Communication and Fudan University’s Institute for Global Communication and Integrated Media. Co-organizers included Fudan University’s School of Journalism and Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s School of Media and Communication.

How Chicago Organizers Managed To Rid The City Of ShotSpotter

December 9, 2024 Noah Berlatsky, Next City. Organize! Chicago, Gun violence, Illinois, Police, ShotSpotter, Surveillance

In September, the city of Chicago stopped using ShotSpotter, a sensor system designed to detect gunshots and alert police and first responders. During his 2023 campaign for Mayor, Brandon Johnson promised to end the use of the expensive technology, which he has referred to as “walkie-talkies on a stick.” Johnson’s decision to end ShotSpotter was not popular with the Chicago City Council. Alderman Silvana Tabares issued an inflammatory statement declaring that “every gunshot victim left bleeding in the streets of our city will be a worthy sacrifice in the eyes of the mayor for his radical agenda.”

Human Rights = Right To Live!: Sanctions Kill! Webinar December 10

December 8, 2024 Workers World. Organize! Cuba, Human Rights, Nicaragua, Palestine, Sanctions, Solidarity, US Sanctions, Venezuela

On International Human Rights Day, Tuesday, Dec 10, 2024, learn how U.S. sanctions violate human rights, with speakers from Palestine and diplomats from Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua. Also speaking will be representatives of the Sanctions Kill / Americas Without Sanctions Campaign and Zone of Peace. Human Rights Day is observed annually around the world on December 10, the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which enshrines rights that everyone is entitled to as a human being. As this Human Rights Day approaches, we are horrified that the genocidal terror on Gaza is not only continuing but spreading throughout the region.

NAARPR Southern Region Organizing Conference Day One

December 8, 2024 Kristen Bonner, Fight Back! News. Organize! Anti-Racism, Florida, National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (NAARPR), Police, Political repression

Jacksonville, FL – On Friday evening, December 6, the air was electric as the inaugural Southern Regional Organizing Conference (SROC) of the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (NAARPR) kicked off with a rally outside Café Resistance. Over 200 attendees gathered to connect, reflect and prepare for the intensive days ahead. Florida State Representative Angie Nixon welcomed attendees to the venue, which serves as a hub for activists and community-building in Jacksonville. In light of the recent Trump victory, Nixon remarked that it is up to us to, “keep up the fight. We gotta get back to the basics: Grassroots organizing.”

Wales Just Hit A Massive Green Energy Milestone

December 7, 2024 The Canary. Organize! Border Militarization, Divestment, Fossil Fuels, Higher Education, Wales

Earlier this week, it was revealed that over 75% of UK universities have now divested from the fossil fuel industry, illustrating how cutting financial ties with the industry is being increasingly recognised as a step that aligns with university goals and values. Laura Clayson, campaign manager at Climate Justice, said: This news is incredibly significant given how fossil fuels have shaped the nation’s recent history and landscape. It is an act of solidarity with frontline communities globally, as well as those within Wales itself. This includes the community surrounding the controversial Ffos-y-Fran, the UK’s last and largest open cast coal mine, which closed in 2023. The community continues to have to fight for justice, for everything from health impacts to restoration of the area, as the mining company continues to break their promises on each and every front. We hope this news provides some additional strength to their struggle.

In Hurricane Ruins, North Carolina Food Workers Organize And Fight

December 6, 2024 Keith Brower Brown, Labor Notes. Organize! Hurricanes, Mutual Aid, North Carolina, Worker Rights and Jobs

Twenty-one days without running water. A week before any cell service or internet. Hospitals closed, and thousands of houses swept away. Not long after developers started trumpeting the city of Asheville, North Carolina, as a “climate haven” from coastal storms, the area experienced catastrophic flooding. Upland Tennessee and North Carolina were the hardest hit by Hurricane Helene on September 27. For restaurant workers, the crisis is still getting worse, says Miranda Escalante, a hotel bartender and co-chair of Asheville Food & Beverage United, an organization of restaurant workers. At least three-quarters have been laid off since the storm, she said, in what would have been peak season.

Delegation From Alliance Of Sahel States Visits Cuba

December 4, 2024 Inemesit Richardson, People's Dispatch. Organize! Africa, Alliance of Sahel States (AES), Anti-colonialism, Cuba, Cuban Revolution, Internationalism, Mali, Niger, Revolution, Sahel, Socialism

From November 8 to 15, twelve people from the countries of the Sahel visited Cuba to meet with Cuban people who carry forward the revolutionary project, and learn about Cuba’s socialist model and deep friendship with the peoples of Africa. The delegation sought to learn lessons from Cuba’s decades-long revolution to help advance the new revolutions being constructed in the Sahel. This was the first delegation of Africans traveling to Cuba from the Alliance of Sahel States (AES), a Pan-African anti-imperialist confederation consisting of Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger.

The Peoples Summit Vs The G20

November 29, 2024 Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report. Organize! Brazil, G20, People's Summit, South America, US Imperialism

The G20 Summit, and this year, is being hosted in Brazil with a special focus on food insecurity. The G20 is a summit of the leaders of the top 20 economies around the world coming together to discuss issues around, as I said this year, food sovereignty. Well, they don't necessarily call it food sovereignty, but food insecurity. Also there are climate change trade deals, including Mercosur , which would be essentially like a free trade deal package with the European Union and other European countries, which is being heavily protested by a lot of the social movements, not just from Brazil, but throughout Nuestra America (Our America) that have been present for the past week or so.

People Of Sahel Inspire Global Movement Against Imperialism

November 24, 2024 People's Dispatch. Organize! Alliance of Sahel States (AES), French colonialism, French Imperialism, Niger, Pan Africanism, Sahel region, West African Peoples' Organization (WAPO)

Shouts of “Free, Free Palestine” and “Down with Imperialism” rang through the streets of Niamey as anti-imperialists from Niger and around the world marched together against Israel’s genocide on Thursday, November 21. The march culminating in the landmark Thomas Sanakra Memorial came at the conclusion of the three-day Conference in Solidarity with the Peoples of the Sahel, organized by the Pan-Africanism Today Secretariat and the West African People’s Organization. The march was no symbolic event. Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso have been in the frontlines of the struggle against imperialism over the past few years.

Kentucky Battery Plant Workers Launch Union Drive With UAW

November 23, 2024 Luis Feliz Leon, Labor Notes. Organize! Kentucky, Unions, United Auto Workers (UAW), Worker Rights and Jobs

A majority of the 1,000 auto workers at the car battery park Blue Oval in Glendale, Kentucky, have signed union cards to join the United Auto Workers. The battery park, a joint venture between Ford and South Korea’s SK On, is expected to ramp up hiring to 5,000 hourly workers by 2030. It has twin battery plants. But the second one is on hold due low demand for electric vehicles. At the first plant, workers are testing battery module packs from facilities in Georgia, as the plant prepares to become fully operational next year. Since he started last year, Chad Johnson has seen co-workers suffer mild heart attacks and respiratory problems, apparently from exposure to chemicals.

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