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On March 28th, Indivisible Project, one of the two primary organizations behind the No Kings protests, held its third such event. Along with their partners, the 50501 Movement, an estimated 8 million people were mobilized and took to the streets across the country at over 3,300 different sites. Last month’s event is now the largest single day political protest in American history.

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As we fight authoritarianism, we cannot cede government to a struggle between MAGA and corporate Democrats. Fifty years of bipartisan neoliberal reforms hollowed out the public sector, cutting funding and shutting working-class communities out of shaping institutions important to them. Authoritarians blamed these institutions’ failures on immigrants, Black people, Muslims, and LGBTQIA people.

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My first stint as a professional organizer was a dream. Four years on Chicago’s high pressure, high energy streets. Surrounded by brilliant comrades and generous mentors. Given the freedom, and support, to build a new young people’s organization. We even won a few minor victories on health care, higher education, policing, and voting. Yet at the end of those four years, I was convinced that…

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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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Examples like Zohran Mamdani’s win in the New York City Mayoral race last year or Brandon Johnson becoming mayor of Chicago a few years earlier, are some of the highest profile examples of progressive movement candidates winning local office. They’ve demonstrated that movements can win as well as how challenges can arise when working to place a single elected official into a local seat amidst a…

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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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The various organizations that have made up the Left in the United States can be described as a cluster of experiments. Experiments that might catalyze a part of society into action against racism and capitalist exploitation. Despite the efforts of some of the finest organizers, the basic power relationship has remained intact. This makes Motown and the Making of Black Revolutionaries: The Story…

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The joint US-Israeli war against Iran puts an exclamation point on the Gaza genocide. It sends a message to the world from the regimes in Washington and Tel Aviv that if you didn’t get it before, you better get it now: We will do absolutely anything that our military strength allows us to do. There are no rules or international laws we are bound to acknowledge, much less respect.

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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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