Author: rslamorte

I’m no stranger to hard mornings. Wake up, scroll the news, get a pulse on the moment, experience increasingly authoritarian and fascist GOP-controlled state governments and the Trump administration. Those mornings, I struggle to get out of bed—let alone feel hope, vision, or strategy. I doubt you are a stranger to hard mornings, even as you muster whatever energy reserves you have to get through…

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While many focus on the Trump administration’s predations overseas and in targeted U.S. cities, we need to understand how local police and sheriffs–even in Democratic Party controlled areas–are still militarizing our communities and adding to the federal crackdown. In addition to $8.4 billion in Pentagon equipment grants, police have invested heavily local funds into drones, assault weapons…

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This week we are building April’s 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. Joining to help build this month’s Attention Economy Navigator in real time are host of There are No Girls on the Internet, Bridget Todd (her new audiobook Love at First…

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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 Negin Owliaei and Bridget Todd, or watch the panel plot these stories in real time on YouTube.

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🎧The Rad Ops Podcast is one component of a dialogue-based tool that supports organizations assessing and discussing the possibilities and limitations of putting liberatory values into practice. Each guest will share their Rad Ops lineages, their expertise on today’s pressing operations questions and leave listeners with resources and discussion questions to take back to your teams.

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If Democrats want to win back the House of Representatives in 2026 and the Presidency in 2028, they need year-round funding to support multi-issue, grassroots community organizations engaged in relationship building and electoral organizing. The most common playbook during elections involves pouring in massive amounts of money and out-of-state staff and volunteers just a few months before…

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Over the past few years, a series of popular uprisings across the world have been described by mainstream media as “Gen-Z Uprisings” – movements led by young people and described in western media as generally being against government corruption. These movements have been most notably visible in our own media due to their use of technology, including platforms like Discord and TikTok…

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🎧The Rad Ops Podcast is one component of a dialogue-based tool that supports organizations assessing and discussing the possibilities and limitations of putting liberatory values into practice. Each guest will share their Rad Ops lineages, their expertise on today’s pressing operations questions and leave listeners with resources and discussion questions to take back to your teams.

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“Run, Jesse, RUN!” It was such a great chant – our members loved it! It rolled off the tongue and was great to build to a crescendo as we marched to attend our first rally with Reverend Jackson for his 1988 presidential campaign. We were marching not only to Rev. Jackson’s rally, we were marching forward to build a grassroots army of low-wage workers and community members through our union…

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🎧The Rad Ops Podcast is one component of a dialogue-based tool that supports organizations assessing and discussing the possibilities and limitations of putting liberatory values into practice. Each guest will share their Rad Ops lineages, their expertise on today’s pressing operations questions and leave listeners with resources and discussion questions to take back to your teams.

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