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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.

Gaza Tribunal Launches To Expose Britain’s Role In Genocide

September 5, 2025 Ana Vracar, People's Dispatch. Organize! Gaza, Gaza Tribunal, Genocide, Israel, Jeremy Corbyn, Keir Starmer, United Kingdom (UK)

The Gaza Tribunal was launched in London on September 4, 2025, to expose the British government’s role in Israeli war crimes in the Gaza Strip. It follows a bill presented earlier this year by independent MP Jeremy Corbyn, calling for a formal inquiry but was ultimately blocked by Keir Starmer’s government in July. Since October 2023, numerous reports have documented British complicity in the genocide in Gaza. They range from warnings over ongoing exports of F-35 jet parts used to bomb schools and hospitals, to accounts of intelligence shared with the Israeli occupation that facilitated attacks on civilian infrastructure. These revelations have sparked regular mobilizations, with thousands demanding accountability from the government and an end to the genocide.

As War Ships Arrive; Defend Venezuela Against US Attack

September 4, 2025 Sara Flounders, Workers World. Organize! International Solidarity, US Imperialism, US Military Intervention, Venezuela

On August 8, President Donald Trump declared that, on the basis of the discredited and fake “War on Drugs,” the U.S. reserved the option to engage in military action in any country, anywhere. In addition, Trump announced that he increased a bounty for the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro from $25 million to $50 million. Following these announcements, the Pentagon war machine moved into action and U.S. warships set sail for the Caribbean. The working class, anti-war, anti-imperialist movement and all movements for social justice and change in the United States have a responsibility to prepare for combating every U.S. war move. Today we must focus attention on the growing threat of a U.S. attack on Venezuela.

Hundreds Of Staff At California National Parks To Unionize

September 3, 2025 Dani Anguiano, The Guardian. Organize! California, National Parks, Trump Administration, Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs

Hundreds of staff at two of California’s most popular national parks have voted to unionize, a move that comes during a troubled summer for the National Park Service, which has seen the Trump administration enact unprecedented staff and budget cuts. In an election held between July and August, more than 97% of workers at Yosemite and Sequoia & Kings Canyon national parks voted in support of organizing a union, according to a statement from the National Federation of Federal Employees. The Federal Labor Relations Authority certified the results last week. “I am honored to welcome the Interpretive Park Rangers, scientists, biologists, photographers, geographers, and so many other federal employees in essential roles at both Yosemite and Sequoia & Kings Canyon to our union,” said Randy Erwin, the NFFE national president.

Venezuelan Youth Train To ‘Defend The Homeland’ Amid US Escalation

September 1, 2025 Pablo Meriguet, People's Dispatch. Organize! Chavismo, Marco Rubio, Nicolas Maduro, Sovereignty, United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Venezuela, Youth Activism

The youth wing of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) carried out “Basic Revolutionary Resistance Training” over the past week in the Venezuelan state La Guaira. On the evening of August 28, the youth participated in a 10 kilometer night march led by Secretary General of PSUV, Diosdado Cabello. The training took place amid rising tensions between Washington and Caracas. The situation flared up when the administration of US President Donald Trump reiterated accusations that the Venezuelan government plays a major role in drug trafficking, increasing the bounty on the head of President Nicolás Maduro, and at the same time deploying troops to the Caribbean to support the US “war on drugs”.

Fred Ross Changed Community Organizing

September 1, 2025 Peter Dreier, Portside. Organize! Community organizing, Farmworkers, Fred Ross, History

"A good organizer is a social arsonist,” Fred Ross Sr once said. “One who goes around setting people on fire.” Ross may be the most influential political activist you’ve never heard of. This anonymity was intentional. Carey McWilliams of the Nation called Ross “a man of exasperating modesty, the kind that never steps forward to claim his fair share of credit for any enterprise in which he is involved.” He believed organizers should be behind the scenes, getting others to take leadership in their unions, community organizations, and civil rights groups. Ross was a California community organizer for the better part of the twentieth century. He started in the 1930s farmworker camps that inspired John Steinbeck’s novels and went on to pioneer methodical tactics that transformed American organizing.

‘Squat The City’ Is A Brilliant Organizer’s Handbook

August 30, 2025 Tom Sandborn, Rabble.ca. Organize! Arts, Book Review, Canada, Homelessness, Housing Justice

The great American organizer and songwriter Woody Guthrie, scrawled on his instrument the memorable phrase, “This machine kills fascists” during World War II. Norman Nawrocki, Vancouver born and Montreal based organizer, author, musician, dramatist and educator, would likely not make that grand or lethal a claim for his latest book, Squat the City: How To Use the Arts for Housing Justice. But he does want the book to serve as a tool, a weapon and an inspiration for people around the world who are facing our own era’s capitalist authoritarians and their murderous lust for profits and power. Nawrocki has spent most of his time as an organizer fighting for housing justice, and his book is a fond memoir of some of the many artistic projects he has co-created with precariously housed and unhoused people struggling against evictions and homelessness.

Hurricane Katrina Revealed Why Climate Justice Must Include Right To Free Movement

August 30, 2025 Faye Matthews and Andrei Greenwood, Resilience. Organize! climate crisis, Climate Justice, Extreme weather, Free movement, Hurricane Katrina

August 29, 2005 is a day that lives in infamy in the Gulf South. On that day, Hurricane Katrina slammed onto shore at the Mississippi/Louisiana state line as a powerful and massive hurricane. Twenty years later, it remains the costliest hurricane in U.S. history. For both of us, August 29 was the day that changed everything. The storm forced us to make the heart-wrenching decision to leave our homes, businesses, and families, uncertain if we would return again. Today, that experience shapes the way that we look at and participate in conversations around immigration and the artificiality of borders. We saw in real time what it meant to have the right to remain, to migrate, and to return.

The Labor Education That Workers Need Most

August 29, 2025 Helena Worthen, Dollars & Sense. Organize! Education, Labor Movement, Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs

What kind of knowledge do you need the most in order to make a decent living and avoid getting injured or beaten up by your job? It’s not those hard skills that take years of costly training, or the work-ethic skills that workforce development planners promote. It’s labor education. Narrowly defined, it means how to organize a union, plus all the ancillary leadership, mobilizing, negotiation, education, and enforcement responsibilities that come with that. Much of this is quite technical. It’s also philosophy. Broadly defined, it’s essentially the arts and sciences from a working-class perspective. The narrow definition of what people learn in labor education classes reflects the reality that our labor relations system is unusually complex.

How NYC Teachers Ran A Slate To Build Member Power

August 28, 2025 Olivia Swisher, Labor Notes. Organize! Democracy, New York City (NYC), Teachers, Unions

Teachers measure time in school years, not calendar years. As the new school year begins, I’ve been reflecting on my experiences from last year as an unexpected candidate for president of the 200,000-member United Federation of Teachers in New York City. When last school year started, I was focused on teaching my students, supporting colleagues, and coaching middle school soccer. Running for the highest office in the largest local union in the country was not on my radar. I didn’t see myself as a potential presidential candidate, but fellow organizers within the UFT reform movement did. In January 2025, I accepted the nomination to lead the Alliance of Retired and In-Service Educators (ARISE), a coalition slate uniting three major reform caucuses in the UFT: MORE (the Movement of Rank-and-File Educators), New Action, and Retiree Advocate.

Solidarity, Not Charity, End Jim Crow Recovery, Restore All Communities

August 27, 2025 Jaribu Hill, Black Agenda Report. Organize! Extreme weather, History, Human Rights, Hurricane Katrina, Mississippi

When I got the call, I was just leaving Magnolia Bar’s Summit at Tougaloo College. It was one of the courageous Ingalls Shipyard workers, whom I had the honor of representing in a race discrimination case. We were advised not to try to come back to the coast. Hurricane Katrina had touched down and the roads are blocked. Our clients packed up our hotel rooms and put our belongings in storage. What followed were harrowing calls and text messages, describing widespread loss of homes, deaths, evictions and injuries. The levies had broken! The sagging infrastructures gave way. Lives already hit hard from other storms and inequities, were once again embattled. It is no surprise that those who had very little to begin with, were the ones who were abandoned by the system.

Gaza Is The Compass: Second Annual People’s Conference For Palestine

August 24, 2025 People’s Conference For Palestine, Mondoweiss. Organize! Gaza, Genocide, Israel, Palestine, Palestine Solidarity

For two years, Gaza has been a moral and political compass that has guided so many towards true liberation. Israel, with full US backing and support, is starving 2 million Palestinians, carrying out a plan for mass displacement and ethnic cleansing in both Gaza and the West Bank, and continuously bombing and shooting Palestinians with the number of martyrs rising daily. Israel’s brutality, though gruesome and with the ultimate price being paid by Palestinians in Gaza, resembles more the last thrashes of a dying beast, than it does a mighty force. Zionism itself is facing an existential crisis. Around the world, Israel’s murderous rampage has given it a spotlight for international scrutiny and has turned Zionism into a pariah among the world’s masses.

Children First: A Campaign To Reunite 66 Venezuelan Kids With Their Parents

August 24, 2025 William Camacaro, COHA. Organize! Children, Immigration, Kidnapping, Venezuela

One of the casualties of Washington’s get-tough immigration policy is the plight of children separated by U.S. authorities from their parents. The political party of “family values” has caused needless trauma for these migrant children and round the clock anxiety for parents desperately waiting to be reunited with their loved ones. The Venezuelan government, which has a longstanding policy–vuelta a la patria–of assisting the repatriation of their citizens– has reported that at least 66 children have been illegally held in the United States since their parents were deported to Venezuela. At this writing the author has been unable to obtain information as to their circumstances or whereabouts.

LA Unites To Provide Mutual Aid For Those Impacted By ICE Raids

August 23, 2025 Victoria Valenzuela, Waging Nonviolence. Organize! ICE, Immigrant Rights, Los Angeles, Mutual Aid

At 8 a.m. on July 4, about a dozen people gathered in front of a tamale cart stationed outside an abandoned 99-cent store building in Pasadena, California — some 10 miles outside of Los Angeles. While the tamales were delicious, that wasn’t the only thing drawing out the crowd — they were there for a fundraiser to support 14-year-old Chris Garcia, who started running his mom’s cart after ICE took some of her customers a few weeks earlier. Her business suffered, and she fell behind in bills, so Garcia stepped up. An hour after the event started, the lowrider car community came cruising and bouncing down the street in support of Garcia. People started buying tamales by the dozens.

Uncover How Your Employer’s Power Flows

August 21, 2025 Jenny Brown, Labor Notes. Organize! Book Review, Employers, Investigation, Unions, Worker Rights

When workers at one company started researching their employer, says a union leader in What the Boss Doesn’t Want Us to Know, “it felt like the curtain was pulled back on Oz. All these things that didn’t make sense to them for so long suddenly made sense.” In their new book, Juravich, Geho, and Gorry share their experience researching private-sector employers and helping unions design strategic campaigns based on what they’ve learned. Then they teach us how to do it. The audience is not just union leaders or staff, but rank and filers who want to build winning workplace campaigns. Most of the information is geared toward the U.S., but there is solid advice for Canadians, too.

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