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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.

Third Social Summit Of Peoples Of Latin America And Caribbean Concludes

November 10, 2025 Orinoco Tribune. Organize! CELAC, Colombia, Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), Latin America, Social Movements, the Caribbean, Zone of Peace

The city of Santa Marta, Colombia, became the epicenter of social and political dialogue in the region this weekend with the Third Social Summit of the Peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean that concluded today with grassroots representatives from all over the continent. The event, which brought together more than 1,500 local delegates and featured more than 200 international delegates, opened nine thematic tables dedicated to political dialogue, adhering to the common agenda of the peoples, with a central focus on sovereignty and on condemnation of the interventionist stance of the United States in the region. The summit, which began Saturday, had the fundamental purpose of fostering discussion among civil society to address common challenges affecting nations, with special attention to critical issues such as migration and the need for deeper integration.

Kentucky Organizers Fill The Gaps As SNAP Delays Leave Families In Limbo

November 10, 2025 Anabel Peterman, Next City. Organize! Food Access, Food Security, Food stamps, Government Shutdown, Kentucky, Mutual Aid, SNAP

“I was expecting, maybe, four of us?” Willa Johnson remarked, earning a few laughs around the table. She sat among about 20 familiar friends and new faces. Most were residents of Letcher County in southeast Kentucky. All were committed to helping their neighbors through food insecurity amid the federal government shutdown. Two days earlier, Johnson made a post in a new mutual aid Facebook group, ‘Kinfolks Feeding Kinfolks,’ asking for locals to help fill the gap if the shutdown halted food aid benefits. She gave a statement, date, time, location and a plea to leave politics at the door. “After the floods in 2022, we saw the very best of that neighborly love in action.

Federation Of Southern Co-ops Sets Out Shutdown Support Measures

November 8, 2025 Miles Hadfield, Coop News. Organize! Cooperatives, Food and Farming, Government Shutdown, SNAP Program, The South

With the US federal shutdown entering its second month, the Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund has set out its effort to support people suffering food insecurity. The shutdown, which began on 1 October, has affected food stamp payments issued through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (Snap) benefits. This month, the Trump administration said claimants will be given half their normal monthly allotment, taken from emergency funding. The Federation has pointed to the ”urgency” of the situation and its impact on programmes like SNAP, “which millions depend on for food access”, and says it has “built infrastructure to address crises like this”.

Texas Electricians Open Up Negotiations And Win Big

November 7, 2025 Paul Steiner, Labor Notes. Organize! Electricians, Texas, Unions, Victory, Worker Rights and Jobs

The building trades can be a tough place for union reformers. Union business is typically conducted behind the scenes, with little involvement from members, while the bosses stall and derail negotiations. But here in Austin, Texas, our Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 520 got off the hamster wheel and got members active like never before—spurred by the organizing of members like me who had joined the national Caucus of Rank-and-File Electrical Workers (CREW). Through an unprecedented amount of outreach, actions that brought members in to confront the bosses head-on, and good old-fashioned raising of stakes and expectations, Local 520 won a contract that put decades of closed-off negotiations to shame.

Anti-Capitalist Book Fair Connects Activists And Progressive Literature

November 4, 2025 Ashleigh-Rae Thomas, Rabble.ca. Organize! Book Fairs, Capitalism, Education, Socialism

The second annual Anti-Capitalist Book Fair took place in Toronto on October 19. Created by Camilo Cahis Marxist Publishing House, the Anti-Capitalist Book Fair aimed to supply leftists, curious onlookers, and seasoned activists in Toronto with progressive literature. Christina Olanick, a graphic designer and organizer at Camilo Cahis Marxist Publishing House, says the book fair started because there’s a ‘real hunger’ for socialist and communist ideas. “It’s really obvious that capitalism isn’t working,” Olanick said of the importance of the book fair.

As SNAP Benefits Dry Up, Philly Organizations Pivot To Meet Needs

November 3, 2025 Pryce Jamison, Next City. Organize! Austerity, Food Access, Mutual Aid, Philadelphia, SNAP

Linda James-Rivera says she’s seeing some of the highest levels of food insecurity in her Philadelphia communities since she founded the Northwest Mutual Aid Collective during the pandemic. “I just signed up five families in two days,” James-Rivera says of the group’s free delivery service, providing fresh produce and pantry essentials to seniors, disabled residents and low-income families across Northwest Philly. “That is the first time that has ever happened.” With the government shutdown still underway, she is one of many organizational leaders preparing for Nov. 1, when approximately 42 million citizens across the nation will lose Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, food benefits.

General Strike In Alberta Possible

November 2, 2025 Gabriela Calugay-Casuga, Rabble. Organize! Canada, Solidarity, Strikes, Teachers, Worker Rights

Workers across Alberta have begun the process of organizing a general strike after the province legislated an end to the teacher’s strike using the notwithstanding clause, according to the Alberta Federation of Labour. Teachers across the province were on strike from October 6 until the government passed Bill 2 early Tuesday morning, forcing teachers to be back in classrooms the next day. Teachers were calling for better pay, more per-student funding in public education and smaller class sizes. “Although this legislation will end the strike and lift the lockout, it does not end the underfunding and deterioration of teaching and learning conditions—our schools will not be better for it,” the union wrote on their website.

How To Build A Union Culture That Welcomes Immigrant Members

October 31, 2025 Dan La Botz, Luis Feliz Leon, and Natascha Elena Uhlmann, Labor Notes. Organize! Immigrants, Labor Movement, Solidarity, Unions

Here is some basic advice for union officers and activists who are new to working with immigrant members. You probably already know that immigrant workers want pretty much the same things any unionized worker wants. A decent job. A living wage. Respect and trust. Some measure of control over their lives. The other thing you should know is: Don’t presume to know anything. Forget stereotypes. Approach immigrant workers in an open, straightforward manner and see what you can learn. Many immigrants may have as much to teach you about the labor movement as they have to learn. Some may have been involved in labor, political, or even revolutionary movements in their native countries.

Community Leaders Gather To Honor Solomon Northup

October 25, 2025 Jean-Luc Pierite, Popular Resistance. Organize! Abolition, Boston, Liberation, Solomon Northup

Boston, MA — The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, City of Boston, and community partners gathered this week to celebrate the unveiling of Hope Out of Darkness, the first-ever bronze sculpture honoring 19th-century abolitionist Solomon Northup (1807–unknown), author of Twelve Years A Slave. The installation, created by Emmy and Oscar-winning sculptor Wesley Wofford, FNSS, was unveiled before an audience of civic leaders, artists, descendants, and residents at the Boston Harbor Islands Welcome Center on the Rose Kennedy Greenway on Wednesday. The legacy of Solomon Northup was recognized by Massachusetts Governor Maura T. Healey, who presented a citation honoring the exhibit of the sculpture and reflecting on “Massachusetts’ history of Black and Indigenous slavery and slave trade, as well as the Commonwealth’s leading role in the abolitionist movement.”

Indiana Kroger Workers Win Better Contract After Voting ‘No’ Twice

October 24, 2025 Andrea Reynolds, Labor Notes. Organize! Indiana, Krogers, Unions, Victory, Worker Rights and Jobs

With 8,000 workers, the Indianapolis Kroger contract is the largest in Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 700. After keeping members in the dark about negotiations, our local union leadership dropped a concessionary contract in our laps. Wage increases didn’t keep up with inflation, and there was no contract language to address understaffing. It was obvious this contract was sending us backwards. My co-workers and I were angry, but we weren’t sure what to do. I joined a Zoom meeting hosted through the reform group Essential Workers for Democracy. I was shocked to see how many members felt the same way about our contract and our union.

We Can’t Rebuild The Labor Movement Without Taking On Big Targets

October 23, 2025 Kate Bronfenbrenner, Labor Notes. Organize! Labor Movement, Militancy, Unions, Worker Rights

Last year, U.S. unions cautiously celebrated a turnaround in their organizing fortunes. National Labor Relations Board election win rates had reached 79 percent, and the number of workers organized for the year approached 100,000, the highest number since 2009. Yet these gains masked a harsher reality for labor, even before the disastrous 2024 elections. For the labor movement to grow, it needs to organize millions of workers each year, not 100,000. Organizing continues to lag in fast-growing, low-density sectors such as personal services, IT, finance, and health care, while union-heavy sectors like government and manufacturing keep shedding jobs.

Why The Gaza Tribunal Is Still Needed After Trump’s Ceasefire

October 22, 2025 Richard Falk, Middle East Eye. Organize! Ceasefire, Gaza, Genocide, Israel, Palestine, People's Tribunal

The Gaza Tribunal, a people's tribunal, was formed a year ago in response to the failure of the established world order of sovereign states and international institutions to stop what experts and ordinary people increasingly recognised as genocide in Gaza. The Gaza Tribunal will hold its final session from 23-26 October 2025 at Istanbul University. Our initiative was inspired by an earlier civil society effort during the Vietnam War, when leading public intellectuals Bertrand Russell and Jean-Paul Sartre established the Russell Tribunal, which held hearings in 1966 and 1967.

Starbucks Workers Aim To Bring A Contract Home

October 22, 2025 Jenny Brown, Labor Notes. Organize! Starbucks, Strikes, Unions, Worker Rights

Unionized Starbucks workers are electing strike captains and getting customers to pledge they won't cross picket lines. They’re amassing in front of stores with picket signs, borrowing a slogan that UPS Teamsters used during their 2023 contract campaign: “Just Practicing for a Just Contract.” Thirty-eight stores held practice pickets in early October, and starting October 25, 80 more stores plan to hold pickets and sign up customers to a “No Contract, No Coffee” pledge, promising not to patronize any Starbucks in case of a strike. “We're all strike-ready,” said Jhoana Canada, a barista in Nashville.

Somerville For Palestine Initiative Is On November Ballot

October 21, 2025 Phebe Eckfeldt, Workers' World. Organize! Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS), Direct Democracy, Israel, Massachusetts, Palestine, Palestine Solidarity, Somerville

Somerville, Massachusetts - “Disclose! Divest! We will not stop, we will not rest!” This chant rang out loud and clear at the Somerville for Palestine (S4P) meeting in Somerville, Massachusetts, on Oct. 6, when members and friends learned that 8,000 of their 11,400 petition signatures were legally certified by the Election Commission. The Commission also overruled an objection by the right wing to the ballot initiative. It will be on the ballot in November as Question 3. For the past seven months, 288 volunteers have been canvassing people to sign a petition directing the Somerville City Council to stop using taxpayers’ money to fund Israeli genocide.

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