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The section provides articles on strategy to assist you in making your campaigns more effective. They include case studies of social movements and information about the current resistance environment. Visit the Resources Page for links to organizations that provide both online and in-person training on strategy and tools for designing and evaluating your campaigns and actions.

Puerto Rico Could Elect Its First Pro-Independence Governor

October 25, 2024 Alberto Medina, Portside. Strategize! De-colonization, Elections, Independence, Puerto Rico

That could herald the beginning of the end for a 125-year-old colonial relationship. Historically, Puerto Rico’s electoral politics have been defined by its parties and leaders’ views on the island’s political status. The pro-statehood (PNP) and pro-status quo (PPD) parties have alternated power since 1948 — when the U.S., already 50 years into its rule of Puerto Rico, finally allowed Puerto Ricans to choose their own governor. The Puerto Rican Independence Party (PIP) had always run a distant third, garnering single-digit support.

Coming Soon To A Country Near You: The Not-So-Subtle Shift To Adaptation?

October 24, 2024 Erik Assadourian, Resilience. Strategize! Adaptation, Capitalism, Environment, Resilience, Sustainability

he shift to adaptation is coming. And when it comes it will be Earth-shaking—where collectively, those with resources start to give up the struggle to stop climate change, and instead focus primarily on protecting their own proverbial asses. Fortunately, we’re not quite there yet. In fact, returning to the report The Wall Street Journal mischaracterized, mitigation finance is growing far faster than adaptation finance, reaching $1.3 trillion annually in 2021-2022, double the $653 billion averaged in 2019-2020. Adaptation finance, on the other hand, grew to $63 billion, a 28% increase year-on-year, but because mitigation finance grew much more, adaptation finance dropped from 7% to 5% of the total.

Not Too Late For Uncommitted Movement To Hold Democrats Accountable

October 22, 2024 John Morlino, Mondoweiss. Strategize! 2024 US Presidential elections, Democratic Party, Democrats, Elections, Genocide, Israel, Palestine, Uncommitted National Movement, Uncommitted Votes

The activists had them right where they wanted them. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris had done everything they could think of to suppress the growing public outrage over their administration’s complicity in the genocide in Palestine, but hundreds of thousands of potential Democratic voters weren’t giving in. Led by the Uncommitted National Movement, they’d refused to pull the lever for Biden in the primaries, and were now threatening to withhold their support for Harris in November unless she and her current boss placed an embargo on America’s weapons shipments to Israel before the 2024 US presidential election.

Lessons On Fighting For The Climate Under Authoritarianism

October 22, 2024 Alessandra Bergamin, Waging Nonviolence. Strategize! Authoritarianism, climate crisis, Climate Justice, The Philippines

In 2013, in the devastating wake of Typhoon Haiyan, Yeb Saño began a two-week hunger fast. Saño, then a diplomat and the head of the Philippines delegation at the U.N. climate talks in Poland, had watched as one of the most powerful tropical storms in history obliterated his hometown of Tacloban. Just a few days after the typhoon, a weeping Saño declared to the delegates in Warsaw that he would not eat again until meaningful climate progress was made. But the fast, which Saño now also calls a hunger strike, was not just a political move.

United States And China Why Not A Deal?

October 21, 2024 Richard D. Wolff, Counter Punch. Strategize! Capitalism, China, US Imperialism, wealth inequality

An old theme within social theory holds that societies with very unequal distributions of wealth can sustain their social cohesion so long as total wealth is growing. Such total growth enables all who get a distributed share of that wealth—even those with the smallest shares—to experience at least some increase. The rich with the biggest shares can grab most of the growth so long as some is provided to those with small shares. The pie analogy works well: so long as the pie is growing all distributed shares of it can also grow.

Why My Coworkers And I Unionized Our Architecture Firm

October 21, 2024 Je Siqueira, Jacobin. Strategize! Architecture, New York (NY), New York City (NYC), Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs

The first attempt to unionize a privately owned architecture firm since the 1970s started at SHoP Architects in New York City, where I was working at the time. This was part of a wave of nontraditional organizing efforts taking place around 2020 that included tech workers at Kickstarter and Google, baristas at various Starbucks locations, writers at Vice, and partners at Apple stores, just to name a few. During the summer of that same year, while most “nonessential workers” were working remotely under stay-at-home orders, some of us hit the streets of cities all over the country to protest police brutality and the assassinations of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.

Care Crisis In Central And Eastern Europe At Risk Of Deepening Further

October 21, 2024 Ana Vračar, People's Dispatch. Strategize! Europe, European Federation of Public Service Unions (EPSU), European Union (EU), Health Care, Healthcare crisis, Report, Worker Rights and Jobs

The care sector in Central and Eastern Europe is facing a serious crisis, with increasing demands on care services but next to no improvement in care workers’ rights, according to a new report by the European Federation of Public Service Unions (EPSU). The report warns that this situation is leading to high stress, burnout, and problems in workforce retention across the region. Although the need for services such as long-term care (LTC) for the elderly, early childhood care, and support for those needing daily assistance continues to grow, a lack of investment in public care services at the national level persists.

Resetting BRICS For The South Slavs, New Europe And The World

October 20, 2024 Batko MIlacic, Orinoco Tribune. Strategize! Bosnia, BRICS, China, Egypt, Ethiopia, European Union (EU), Herzegovina, Iran, Kazan, NATO, Russia, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates (UAE), US Imperialism, World Bank

On October 22, in the capital of the Russian Republic of Tatarstan, located less than five hours along the M-12 “Vostok” highway from Moscow, the 16th Kazan BRICS summit opens – an association of 10 countries of a new geopolitical format, ahead of all the slow-moving Western alliances that has fallen into recession or stagnation. Already, Kazan is fully ready to host the leaders of more than 33 countries participating in the BRICS summit in a year when Russia is the chairman of the association of leaders of the multipolar world. The Moscow Kremlin noted that Kazan is fully prepared to host more than 20,000 guests and the summit organizers took into account the interests of more than 30 countries planning to receive an invitation to BRICS or become partner states of this association in the near future.

An Abolitionist Approach To Debt

October 19, 2024 Chrystin Ondersma, Next City. Strategize! Basic Necessities, Debt, Human Rights, Legal System

When individuals cannot meet their basic needs without turning to debt, they face threats to their human dignity. Survival debt — debt that individuals incur to survive and live a life with dignity — is inherently intimidating and degrading. A person does not have the freedom to obtain a standard of living consistent with human dignity if the only means of acquiring housing, transportation, food, medical care or an education is to incur debt. Many indebted households can barely survive, much less vivir sabroso. Those who incur debt to meet basic needs must work, despite knowing that the fruits of their labor will be diverted to repay debt — while they still struggle just to meet basic needs, let alone accumulate the necessary resources to weather future emergencies or to build savings for retirement.

How To Do A Conjunctural Analysis

October 18, 2024 Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Strategize! Gaza, Genocide, Israel, Media, Palestine

Reading legacy Western media – which dominates the world information order – is painful. During the genocidal war against Palestinians, for instance, these media outlets (such as CNN, The New York Times, The Guardian, Le Monde, and Bild) have been unable to bring themselves to describe the Israeli military’s attacks on Palestinians. At most, and when it suits them, they resort to passive voice (‘Palestinians die’) or to a dangerous form of turning civilian areas into military targets (‘Hezbollah village’ or ‘Hamas command and control centre’).

Lessons From The Tulane And Loyola Encampments For Gaza

October 18, 2024 Lev Deane, Fight Back! News. Strategize! BDS Movement, Campus Movement, Israel, Louisiana State University, Palestine, Palestine Solidarity, Student Activism, Tulane

Baton Rouge, LA – On October 9, Louisiana State University’s Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) held a panel on the Tulane and Loyola University encampments for Gaza as part of their October 7 Week of Rage. LSU SDS invited members of Tulane and Loyola SDS and a member of Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) from New Orleans. They highlighted their wins and explored lessons learned from planning and implementing the encampment. Last spring, the National Students for a Democratic Society put out a call for campuses across the country to enact encampments for Gaza on their universities’ lawns to escalate the fight for divestment.

Anticipating Escalation: Neutralizing Swarming’s Armed Front

October 18, 2024 Misión Verdad, Orinoco Tribune. Strategize! CIA, Drug Trafficking, Maria Corina Machado, Mercenaries, Regime Change, Spain, Venezuela

In her effort to readjust the agenda of regime change and in the face of a clear mood of demobilization within her ranks, María Corina Machado has decided to publicly incorporate the concept of “swarming“ into her narrative. This decision reflects the consolidation of a path that goes beyond what is attempted to be presented as “peaceful protest” by proposing a more aggressive form of confrontation, embedded in the scope of military operations, while using the discourse on human rights to counteract the possible limitations suffered by the violent actions that the far right hopes to set in motion.

Applying/Misapplying Gramsci’s Passive Revolution To Latin America

October 17, 2024 Steve Ellner, Orinoco Tribune. Strategize! Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, BRICS, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Gramsci, Honduras, Latin America, Nicaragua, Passive Revolution, Pink Tide, US Imperialism, Venezuela

The second wave of progressive Latin American governments that began with the election of Andrés Manuel López Obrador in Mexico in 2018 does not have the aura of excitement surrounding the first, dating back to Hugo Chávez in 1998. It is not only characterized by pragmatism, but lacks the slogans and banners of radical change associated with Chávez and Evo Morales. As stated by former Bolivian vice president Álvaro García Linera in the face of challenges from an aggressive right, the second-wave left “turned up to the fight in an already exhausted state.”

Ecuador Voted To Stop Drilling In The Amazon

October 15, 2024 Adem Ay, Waging Nonviolence. Strategize! Amazon Rainforest, Chevron, Ecuador, Environment, Oil and Gas Industry

Environmental activists rarely get to celebrate a major win for the planet, but that’s what happened in Ecuador last year. After a decade-long struggle between activists and the government, a referendum was held in August 2023 on whether to continue drilling for oil in a protected part of the Amazon. The people voted to kick the oil industry out. The government and the state oil company, Petroecuador, had tried every trick in the book to get a different result. There was a disinformation campaign, threats of austerity, even an attempt to void hundreds of thousands of signatures that were collected for the referendum to happen.

Could Palestine Be The Catalyst For An Islamic Renaissance?

October 14, 2024 Pepe Escobar, Strategic Culture Foundation. Strategize! Gaza, Iran, Islam, Israel, Malaysia, Middle East, Palestine, Resistance, Türkiye

Of all the countless analyses across the lands of Islam about the profound significance of fateful Al-Toofan (Al-Aqsa Flood) on October 7, 2023, this one stands out: a cycle of conferences in Istanbul earlier this week, including October 7, titled Palestine: the Lynchpin of Civilizational Renaissance, linked to the Kuala Lumpur Forum for Thought and Civilization. Call it a Malaysia-Turkiye partnership: Southeast Asia meets West Asia, a graphic illustration of the multi-nodal world that will be congregating in less than two weeks in Kazan, capital of Muslim Russia, for the long -awaited BRICS summit under the Russian presidency.

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