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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.

Grassroots Organizers Offer Blueprint For Beating Back Data Centers

February 15, 2026 Derek Seidman, Truthout. Organize! Artificial Intelligence (AI), Data Centers, Victory, Wisconsin

Data centers are big business. Around 3,000 new data centers — huge buildings that house the computing power that props up the growing use of artificial intelligence (AI) — are currently being built or planned across the U.S. Some speculate that global spending on data centers could hit $3 trillion by 2029. Corporate interests — from energy firms and construction companies, to real estate businesses and utilities — are looking to cash in. But private equity — that powerful and opaque slice of Wall Street, run by mega-billionaire founders, focused on private investment and outsized profits — is an especially outsized force driving the data center boom, pouring billions into construction deals while also positioning itself to profit from supplying AI’s insatiable energy demands.

Trauma Of ICE Raids Is Rippling Through Public Schools

February 14, 2026 Eleanor J. Bader, Truthout. Organize! Children, ICE, Immigrant Rights, Minneapolis, Schools, State Repression

In several Minnesota communities, public school teachers and community volunteers are now riding school buses with their students to ensure that at each afternoon drop-off, the adults who were expected to be waiting at home for their child’s arrival have not been taken by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids during the school day. “The president’s decision to send thousands of masked, heavily armed agents into our communities has forced educators to adapt in many ways,” Monica Byron, the president of Education Minnesota, told Truthout via email.

Michigan Unions Launch Statewide Labor-Climate Coalition

February 13, 2026 Cameron Harrison, People's World. Organize! climate crisis, Energy Transformation, Green Economy, Labor Movement, Michigan, Worker Rights

Lansing, Mich.—Union leaders representing over a million Michigan workers stood together on Tuesday to launch the Michigan Climate Jobs Coalition (MICJ), a new alliance dedicated to ensuring that the state’s transition to a clean energy economy is built by and for the working class. The coalition, announced at a press conference in Lansing, unveiled a detailed 17-point policy blueprint developed with Cornell University’s Climate Jobs Institute. The plan is a direct challenge to corporate-driven climate agendas, insisting that the jobs of the future must be union jobs, and that tackling the climate crisis must address soaring energy costs, inequality, and community health.

University Of Utah Workers Launch Campaign To Improve Conditions

February 10, 2026 Fight Back! News. Organize! Health Care, Higher Education, Sanctuary, Unions, Worker Rights, Workplace Safety

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

February 9, 2026 Eric Blank, Labor Politics. Organize! General Strikes, History, ICE, Labor Movement, Minneapolis

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

February 7, 2026 Devin B. Martinez, People's Dispatch. Organize! Donald Trump, Haiti, Haitian revolution, ICE, Immigrant Rights, Immigrant Solidarity, Temporary Protected Status (TPS), US Customs and Border Protection (CBP)

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

February 6, 2026 Rashida James-Saadiya, Truthout. Organize! Community Defense, ICE, Mutual Aid, Trump Administration

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

February 5, 2026 Jamila Osman, Truthout. Organize! Community Defense, ICE, Immigrant Rights, Minnesota, Mutual Aid, Somalians

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

February 3, 2026 Belinda Carpenter, Labor Notes. Organize! Health Care, Nurses, Teamsters, Unions

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

February 2, 2026 Tim Sullivan, Next City. Organize! Community Defense, ICE, Minneapolis, Mutual Aid

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

February 1, 2026 Mark Gruenberg, People's World. Organize! Health Care, Labor Movement, Unions, Virginia, Worker Rights and Jobs

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

February 1, 2026 Don Hall, Resilience. Organize! Communities, Open Source, Transformation, Transition Towns

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

January 30, 2026 Chris Mills Rodrigo, Inequality.org. Organize! Community Defense, ICE, Minnesota, Unions

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

January 29, 2026 Eliana Perozo, Next City. Organize! Community Defense, ICE, Immigrant Rights, Rapid Response

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.

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