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The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice @forgeorganizing.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

We organized a special issue w/ @liberation-gen.bsky.social "The Corporate Power of It All" — and it's now live! Seven conversations with organizers, researchers, and frontline leaders on how corporate power shapes our lives and how we fight back. Read it here: forgeorganizing.org/issues/corpo...

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The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice @forgeorganizing.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Calling all organizers: ready to strengthen your writing? In this 6-week workshop (June 17–July 22), you’ll develop an article, get feedback, and learn how to pitch your work. Space is limited. Deadline to apply May 4th! APPLY HERE: bit.ly/summerwritin...

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The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice @forgeorganizing.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

🧵(3/3) It’s filled with on-the-ground case studies, frank critiques, and usable frameworks. This is the shared analysis our movements need. Our work. Our tool kit. Our tomorrow. READ NOW: forgeorganizing.org/issues/narra...

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The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice @forgeorganizing.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

🧵(2/3) This issue answers the “how.” How do we dismantle old stories? How do we build new ones that stick? How does cultural work become power-building? READ NOW: forgeorganizing.org/article/invi...

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The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice @forgeorganizing.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

🧵(1/3) Movements win when we change what people believe is possible. Today, together with Rad Comms, we released “Narrative Power Today for a Radical Tomorrow”, a strategic toolkit built with organizers, not just for them. READ NOW: forgeorganizing.org/article/invi...

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The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice @forgeorganizing.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

TOOLS DOWN. READ UP. "Narrative Power Today for a Radical Tomorrow" is LIVE. Real strategy, real stories, for the fight to change what’s possible. Dive in, retool, and share widely. READ NOW: forgeorganizing.org/issues/narra...

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The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice @forgeorganizing.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

The same public subsidies that fund Memphis’s slumlords now bankroll Elon Musk’s pollution, revealing a single, profitable system that organizers are challenging by uniting the struggles for housing and environmental justice. READ NOW: forgeorganizing.org/article/soli...

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The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice @forgeorganizing.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

This is a republish of part of a series of CCI substack posts and a policy brief exploring why the United States needs a Green Industrial Policy for Housing. READ HERE: forgeorganizing.org/article/putt...

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The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice @forgeorganizing.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

When floodwaters consumed the only roads into their Appalachian town, the community’s survival hinged on the deep trust and organizing muscle built by a local group over years. READ NOW: forgeorganizing.org/article/less...

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The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice @forgeorganizing.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

The same systemic forces that steal Black communities’ cultural harvest are being met with an unbreakable resilience, as neighbors build solidarity networks, reclaim land, and seed a future where their culture can thrive. READ HERE: forgeorganizing.org/article/what...

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The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice @forgeorganizing.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

This interview was conducted in Fall 2025 with Valencia Gunder of The Smile Trust, about Razing Liberty Square, a documentary about the Black community of Liberty City and how they’re resisting climate gentrification. READ NOW: forgeorganizing.org/article/razi...

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The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice @forgeorganizing.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

In this panel, housing organizers have identified our most vital source of resilience as climate disasters intensify: the trust between neighbors, which they are forging into a powerful force for collective survival and justice. READ HERE: forgeorganizing.org/article/fron...

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The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice @forgeorganizing.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

In the face of a hostile legislature and stalled policies, Miami tenants have stopped asking politicians for help and started building their own power—by turning corporate landlords’ financial records into weapons. READ NOW: forgeorganizing.org/article/usin...

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The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice @forgeorganizing.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

In California, disaster-triggered renter protections are a crucial victory that contributes to a just recovery for working-class people facing the climate crisis. READ HERE: forgeorganizing.org/article/tena...

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The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice @forgeorganizing.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Amaya Lin was the Senior Policy Advisor for former Oakland Council President and District 2 Councilmember Nikki Fortunato Bas. She worked with @bayrisingaction to capture organizing lessons with groups working with Bas’ office. READ NOW: forgeorganizing.org/article/thre...

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The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice @forgeorganizing.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

The hallways of apartment buildings have become a new front in the climate fight, where tenant unions are battling for survival against the twin threats of negligent landlords and rising heat. READ HERE: forgeorganizing.org/article/as-c...

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The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice @forgeorganizing.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

The era of “holding our lane” is over: we must now choose between building a single-issue movement or preserving the democracy necessary for any movement to survive. READ NOW: forgeorganizing.org/article/the-...

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The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice @forgeorganizing.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Democrats are preparing to sacrifice our ability to organize online for a hollow political victory, and this impending collapse of digital speech protections will cripple social movements at the very moment they are proving most effective. READ NOW: forgeorganizing.org/article/how-...

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The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice @forgeorganizing.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

What does it look like to organize at the intersection of housing and climate justice? Our new retrospective, Right to a Roof: On Climate, Crises, and Care, explores exactly that, with on-the-ground stories and hard-won strategy. Available now: forgeorganizing.org/issues/right...

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The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice @forgeorganizing.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

"Organizing, at its core, is about transformation. When that personal transformation happens on a collective level, we unleash the power to transform society. This is as much of a spiritual project as it is a political one." READ MORE: forgeorganizing.org/article/two-...

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The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice @forgeorganizing.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Let her victory fuel our ongoing duty. Honor her by continuing the fight for the dignity of all oppressed people. She proved our chains can be broken.

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The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice @forgeorganizing.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

On Thursday, July 24th, just days before the IOF boarded the ship while it was closing in on Gaza, Sonali Kolhatkar reached Chris Smalls on the Handala and spoke with him about what it means to be in solidarity with Gaza. READ HERE: forgeorganizing.org/article/labo...

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The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice @forgeorganizing.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Today’s working conditions are making people sick and the widespread failure to recognize how profoundly the workplace shapes health has served to preclude needed progress and reforms. READ FULL ARTICLE: forgeorganizing.org/article/sick...

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The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice @forgeorganizing.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

The money exists to resist authoritarianism and build something better. What’s missing isn’t resources—it’s imagination. Read Karundi Williams’ new op-ed: forgeorganizing.org/article/we-s...

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The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice @forgeorganizing.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Movements thrive when resources flow to both local organizing and national infrastructure. This isn’t the time for false choices. It’s time to invest in the full architecture of movement power. READ: forgeorganizing.org/article/we-s...

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The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice @forgeorganizing.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Relying solely on outside funding is a long-term threat to an organization. Could community unions be the answer to fight the right? READ MORE: forgeorganizing.org/article/how-...

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The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice @forgeorganizing.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

In the last three years, 60% of the largest unions in the country have chosen new leadership. This presents an amazing opportunity for these new leaders to position labor as the bedrock of resistance to fascism. READ MORE: forgeorganizing.org/article/labo...

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The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice @forgeorganizing.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

🧵(1/4) This month, we pay tribute to the incomparable June Jordan. Join us as we revisit her words, reflect on her impact, and celebrate the legacy of a writer who dared to speak truth to power.

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The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice @forgeorganizing.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

While some South Asians climb the ranks of white supremacist power structures, others are building the most vital anti-fascist playbook of our time. READ MORE HERE: forgeorganizing.org/article/resi...

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The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice @forgeorganizing.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Ben Carroll, Organizing Coordinator for the Southern Workers Assembly details what it takes to build worker power in Spartanburg County,SC. READ FULL ARTICLE: forgeorganizing.org/article/work...

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The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice @forgeorganizing.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

The following case study defines “electoralizing” as a strategy that uses an election to help get a direct win on an issue campaign. READ FULL ARTICLE: forgeorganizing.org/article/elec...

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The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice @forgeorganizing.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

🧵(4/7) 5. Submit your work for publication. First research the markets that interest you. Seek out and study the books or magazines of publishers to whom you want to sell. Then submit your work. If the idea of doing this scares you, fine.

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The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice @forgeorganizing.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

🧵(7/7) Stay tuned for Part 3 of Octavia Butler's Writing Advice.

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The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice @forgeorganizing.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

🧵(6/7) 6. Forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you’re inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won’t. Habit is persistence and practice.

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The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice @forgeorganizing.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

🧵(5/7) Go ahead and be afraid. But send your work out anyway. If it’s rejected, send it out again, and again. Rejections are painful, but inevitable. They’re every writer’s rite of passage.

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The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice @forgeorganizing.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

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The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice @forgeorganizing.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

🧵(3/7) 4. Revise your writing until it’s as good as you can make it. All the reading, writing, and classes should help you do this. Check your writing, your research (never neglect your research), and the physical appearance of your manuscript. Let nothing substandard slip through.

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The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice @forgeorganizing.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

🧵(2/7) Writing for publication may be both the easiest and the hardest thing you’ll ever do. Learning the rules — if they can be called rules — is the easy part. Following them, turning them into regular habits, is an ongoing struggle. Here are the rules:

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The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice @forgeorganizing.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

🧵(1/7) PART 2 IS HERE! 📝📚 celebrating the continuation of our writing workshop with Octavia Butlers writing advice-

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The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice @forgeorganizing.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

The Craft of Campaigns released part one of a two-part special episode. Unlike standard episodes that zoom in on a single campaign, this special zooms out to explore broader strategy themes. REFRESH on Season 2 before you dive in: forgeorganizing.org/issues/craft...

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The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice @forgeorganizing.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

In 2021, Zohran Mamdani, now the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York, joined NYC taxi drivers in a hunger strike that pushed the city to reduce their medallion debts, a key early victory in his political career. READ FULL ARTICLE forgeorganizing.org/article/new-...

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