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An hour after the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act in Louisiana v. Callais, the Florida Legislature voted to approve new congressional maps that eliminated two majority–Black districts and could help Republicans gain four more seats in Congress. One state legislator refused to let the vote happen quietly. For nearly four hours, State Representative Angie Nixon disrupted the session…

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Akin Olla: What kind of problems do you think young people are facing right now in Florida, and more broadly, nationally? Nailah Summer-Polite: It’s very difficult in Florida. We have a FAMU (Florida A&M University) chapter that for the last year or so has gone through a lot of transitions because… people graduate. Which is normal, but we’re also seeing a lot of student organizers who are…

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For over a decade, Florida has been my political organizing home and the state where the far right has established its headquarters. After years of organizing in California and co-founding the National Domestic Workers Alliance, coming home to Florida in 2013 to be near family shifted my perspective on electoral politics and the state of our democracy. One year after the Department of…

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“Wealth is being extracted from Black communities. Dollars are moving out of our communities faster than they are coming in. We need to talk about how these communities are being kept poor.” These are the words of Alphonso Mayfield, a Florida labor organizer who reshaped organizing in the state and developed new generations of leaders. He passed away in January 2026.

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Before “Florida Man” became a meme; a punchline used to caricature the state as backwards, and beyond saving, Florida was—and remains—a place of resistance. In her book When No Thing Works: A Zen and Indigenous Perspective on Resilience, Shared Purpose, and Leadership in the Timeplace of Collapse, Norma Wong teaches us that the Chinese word for “crisis” combines two characters: danger and…

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It was a chilly day in Minneapolis in 2013 when Yotam Marom was first told he was “invisible.” He was told this by a team member and close colleague, while working with a tenant organizing group which had emerged from the recent Occupy Movement. His role that week was to facilitate and train leaders in the organization. While Yotam was doing his job well enough – participating and planning…

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We are joined by New York City tenant organizer and communications expert, Ritti Singh, who recently published an article with Convergence, covering a strategy – which has been implemented in NYC tenant organizing – she calls “surround sound” communications. Then, in early 2025, a group of tenant organizers in New York City began a campaign to Freeze the Rent. The language and values of this…

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On April 12, 2026, Viktor Orbán’s authoritarian grip over Hungary came to an end. A new party, Tisza, won the elections with a two-thirds majority and a historically high voter turnout of close to 80%. This was a strategically executed, nonviolent means of defeating an authoritarian regime using elections as a window of opportunity. Orbán’s party, Fidesz, was overwhelmingly defeated: Tisza…

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This month on the Attention Economy Navigator, our guide to what you should be paying more attention to, and what you can probably pay less attention to. And why those stories might not be what you’d assume. You can also listen to the podcast episode featuring Dr. Shannon Mancus and Akin Olla, or watch the panel plot these stories in real time on YouTube.

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US support for the Gaza genocide, the US-Israeli war against Iran, the resources stolen from social programs to make war, the reimportation of the pathologies of militarism – all against the backdrop of accelerating climate change – underscore the urgency of transforming US foreign as well as domestic policy. But a return to the policies of previous administrations would be only tinkering around…

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