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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.

Veterans And Allies Come Together At A Critical Moment In History

July 24, 2025 Veterans For Peace, Popular Resistance. , , , , , ,
After six years apart due to the COVID-19 pandemic, military veterans and peace activists from around the world will gather in-person once again for the Veterans For Peace National Convention, held July 24–27, 2025, at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). The hybrid event also offers virtual access for attendees worldwide. Veterans For Peace, a national organization of former service members committed to ending war and militarism, will host workshops, speakers, and strategy sessions focused on peacebuilding, climate justice, and veterans' advocacy—including issues like demilitarizing police, returning deported veterans, confronting mass deportation, and ending U.S. involvement in Gaza and Ukraine.

Protecting Incarcerated People From ‘Prison-To-Ice Deportation Pipeline’

July 24, 2025 Tamar Sarai, Next City. , , ,
About 70% of the people who are currently in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody were transferred from the carceral system, often the same day that they completed their sentence and were formally released from prison or jail. According to California-based advocacy group Freedom for Immigrants, in California alone, this “prison-to-ICE detention pipeline” funnels some 1,500 incarcerated people per year into immigration detention centers the moment they have finally secured their release from prison.

Underpaid, Overworked Medical Residents Want A Union

July 23, 2025 Derek Seidman, Truthout. , , ,
Amid rising labor militancy over the past few years, one group of workers has gone under the radar: medical residents. Also known as resident physicians or housestaff, medical residents are doctors who have finished medical school and are working in hospitals as apprentices on the path to getting independently licensed. They are the patient-facing backbone of hospital operations, working extremely long hours under stressful conditions for mediocre pay. Over the past few years, from California to New England, medical residents have been unionizing and striking by the thousands.

Coping With Climate Crises On The Job

July 17, 2025 Alexandra Bradbury, Labor Notes. , , , , ,
Heat, smoke, flooding, hurricanes, fires, turbulence—on the job, workers are already facing the ravages of a changing climate. These problems are ripe for organizing—usually everyone is feeling it. Often it’s very clear what solution would help, and who could deliver it. Such fights don’t address the underlying causes of climate change. But they’re opportunities to build union power by strengthening the bonds among co-workers and getting folks into action together. And they can open the door to talking about how confronting climate change at its root is a union issue, too.

Friends Of The Hague Group Launches To Support Anti-Imperialist Models Of Multilateralism

July 15, 2025 Friends of The Hague Group, Popular Resistance. , , , ,
Bogota, Colombia - Representatives of major international organizations will convene to launch the Friends of The Hague Group (FOTHG) in Bogota as The Hague Group (THG) holds an emergency ministerial meeting on Palestine at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on July 15 and 16. The Hague Group was established in January of this year in The Hague, Netherlands by the Plurinational State of Bolivia, the Republic of Colombia (current co-chair), the Republic of Cuba, the Republic of Honduras, Malaysia, the Republic of Namibia, the Republic of Senegal and the Republic of South Africa (current co-chair) so that states could work collaboratively using diplomatic and legal measures to enforce international law, specifically regarding Israel’s ongoing genocide of Palestinians and the failure of current international institutions to hold those countries and leaders who are committing war crimes accountable.

Texas Residents Launch Grassroots Efforts For Post-Flood Disaster Relief

July 15, 2025 Natalia Marques, People's Dispatch. , , , ,
Disastrous flash flooding in Central Texas in the beginning of July left at least 121 people dead. Rescue teams continue to search for the over 170 people still missing. The floods now rank among the deadliest natural disasters for children in the US in recent decades. 36 children lost their lives in Kerr County alone.  Amid the loss of life, many argue that the flood deaths were preventable, with some pointing to the failure of local officials to implement a flood warning system.  The editorial board of the Houston Chronicle published an editorial advocating for systems that would ensure more flood recovery and preparedness, writing “what’s most difficult to process is that these deaths were largely preventable.”

As Fires Consumed California, Small Towns Organized Their Own Defense

July 14, 2025 Margaret Elysia Garcia, Truthout. , , , , ,
If you live in a national forest in California, odds are pretty high that at some point or another you’ve been ordered to evacuate. In Indian Valley, for the first twelve days, many of our residents did indeed evacuate, but a significant number stayed behind. Some residents had livestock to look after and often no solid indication of where they could take their animals that wouldn’t also need to be evacuated soon. With so many towns evacuating at once, some didn’t want to stay in evacuation shelters where the lights would be on all day and night and the likelihood of catching COVID was high.

Don’t Miss People’s Summit For Korea In New York City July 25-27

July 12, 2025 Workers World. , , , ,
The struggle for Korea’s sovereignty is at a crossroads. Despite empty gestures toward diplomacy, U.S. imperialism continues to escalate tensions in Korea — expanding war exercises, deepening the Japan-South Korea-U.S. alliance and pushing the peninsula to the brink of war. But our movements are fighting back. This July, join us at The People’s Summit for Korea in New York City to unite across borders and build a collective strategy for liberation. Together, we’ll: Analyze the impact of U.S. imperialism on Korea and the world. Strategize how to advance the fight for peace, sovereignty and collective liberation. Celebrate resistance through cultural performances and collective action.

Longshore Workers Remember The Struggle To Free The Charleston Five

July 10, 2025 Kerry Taylor, Labor Notes. , , , ,
Dockworkers from around the world reunited in South Carolina for a week in June to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the successful campaign to “Free the Charleston 5” and the founding of the International Dockworkers Council. For nearly two years, five members of the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) faced felony rioting charges and prison sentences stemming from their roles in a January 2000 confrontation with police at the entrance to the Columbus Street Terminal in Charleston. The case sparked international outcry from unions and civil rights groups, who viewed the charges as a racist attack on organized labor by politically ambitious South Carolina Attorney General Charles Condon.

Minneapolis Teamsters Fight For Safety In Summer Heat

July 6, 2025 Sorcha Lona, Fight Back! News. , , , , , ,
Minneapolis – Local 638 Teamsters tabled at the northeast Minneapolis UPS hub on Thursday, July 3. They distributed flyers on heat safety and union contract enforcement. Drivers coming in, and warehouse workers leaving for the day, stopped to learn about their rights, grab some lemonade, and share experiences as temperatures reached the 90-plus range in Minneapolis. Inside the warehouse and inside package cars, temperatures are regularly five to ten degrees higher for workers. As the result of a months-long contract campaign and credible strike threat in 2023, UPS workers won strong contract language. This requires UPS to install 2500 new water fountains, 18,000 new warehouse fans, and 28,000 new or replacement delivery vehicles equipped with air conditioning over the life of the five-year contract.

Movements Need To Learn To Fly Like Bees And Thread Like Spiders

July 4, 2025 John Paul Lederach, Waging Nonviolence. , , ,
The first months of the Trump administration — with its rapid and sweeping turn toward autocratic rule — have rightly led to calls for collective and national resistance. Leading civil resistance scholars Erica Chenoweth and Zoe Marks have described the need for a “large-scale, multiracial, cross-class, pro-democracy front.” And Maria Stephan, writing for Just Security, called this a critical moment for taking up the “journey from individual angst to collective action, from siloed work to big-tent formations.” Creating such a collective response, however, requires a great deal of creativity and focus, particularly — as these authors suggest — when it comes to relating to different groups and building unexpected connections.

Organizers Plan For Second Annual People’s Conference For Palestine

July 2, 2025 Natalia Marques, People's Dispatch. , , ,
For the second year in a row, Palestinian diaspora and solidarity activists are set to convene in Detroit, Michigan, for the second edition of the People’s Conference for Palestine. Last year in late May, 3,000 pro-Palestine activists met in Detroit for a three-day conference. The conference took place at a historic juncture for the Palestine movement in North America, weeks after the height of the global student movement of “Gaza Solidarity Encampments” and eight months into Israel’s genocide of the Gaza Strip. In this political moment, when global consciousness in solidarity with Palestine reached new heights, leaders in the pro-Palestine movement throughout North America met to review strategy and plan for the future.

Feeling Abandoned, Community Contaminated By Toxic Train Decides ‘We Only Have Ourselves’

July 2, 2025 Steve Mellon, Pittsburgh Union Progress. , , , , ,
What happens to people in the months and years after a corporation worth billions creates an environmental catastrophe that disfigures their community? Myriad answers emerged a few weeks ago in a hotel conference room in Columbiana, Ohio, where eight people from the East Palestine, Ohio, area met with a Pittsburgh psychiatrist experienced in treating people who’ve endured traumatic events. One of the first to speak up was Lonnie Miller. She’s been open about discussing her family’s struggles since a Norfolk Southern train tumbled off a set of railroad tracks 1,200 feet from her home on Feb. 3, 2023.

Immigrant Communities Organize Against ICE In The South Bronx

June 28, 2025 Natalia Marques, People's Dispatch. , , , ,
June 21 was one of the hottest days this year, but that did not stop dozens of immigrant rights leaders of all generations from organizing a street meeting in the South Bronx, telling stories and trading tips on how to address the crisis of ICE raids in their communities. These community members were marking the “Binational Day for Peace and Justice,” a call to action for organizations, collectives, and community leaders in Mexico and the US promoted by the organization Global Exchange. “Since January 20, we’ve seen an increase in the attacks from ICE agents, in collaboration many times with FBI and other agencies, that are terrorizing our communities.

Fighting Mid-Contract Changes Can Build The Union

June 24, 2025 Al Davidoff, Labor Notes. , , ,
Often our best opportunity to strengthen the union—to build activism, solidarity, and leadership—comes during contract negotiations. Under most U.S. union contracts, this is the only time we are legally free to use our greatest power, the strike. But during the years between negotiations, it’s easy to revert to a sleepy “business union” model. We may reinforce passivity or dependence among the members we “serve” by handling their day-to-day problems “for” them instead of mobilizing their power and true ownership of the local. How can we mobilize members during the long periods between contracts?
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