The Fundamentals of Organizing

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The Organizer's Superpower: Starting Where People Are At
In organizing, we hear the phrase all the time, but what does it really mean?
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Training Series to Launch in July: Working Class Campaigns
Every organizer should experience the feeling of a growing base, leaders developing in ways they had never imagined, and the joy of winning on issues…
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Spirit, Purpose, and Meaning - More on Rituals
The power of ritual comes from how the act makes you feel. Take the feeling off the table, and you are left with some pretty dry shit.
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Often Overlooked, The Power of Ritual in Organizing
The rituals of the organization are as important as good systems and management. They signal what is most valued and create a stickiness that binds…
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The Great Escape: An Organizing Thriller
The most essential organizing fundamentals jump off the pages of "The Great Escape," not as a checklist or explainer, but through one of the greatest…
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A win is not a win….until the story is told
Telling our story of winning is as much about base-building as communications.
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Letter to a Young Organizer #2
You are here to stir the pot. To take the crisis to those who created it. To transform hearts and minds on the way toward transforming how the whole…
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Taking Openings with Saket Soni
In organizing, when you see an insurmountable challenge, you have to let the river help you cross it. You have to dive in, and let the logic provide its…
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The Fundamentals of Organizing
There are fundamentals of community organizing that cross lineage and conditions for a reason, they work. Here's my contribution toward reviving them.

The Fundamentals of Organizing

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