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During the Council’s recent Building Together conference, the Horizons Project was pleased to present two workshops on our Block, Bridge, Build (BBB) framework. The unseasonally warm sun we enjoyed in Seattle that first week in May was in stark contrast with the stormy skies and tumult felt around the country from the immediate impact of the Supreme Court’s Callais decision.

January 20, 2026 will mark one year of this fascist regime and one year of Free DC's organizing to rise up and protect our people. One year into this fight it is more urgent than ever: ICE is kidnapping our neighbors, MPD is cooperating with federal agents, Congress has introduced bill after bill to overturn our local laws — and local elections on the horizon will require active involvement to ensure their fairness and integrity. On Tuesday January 20, we're calling everyone who is sick of this administration's attacks on DC to leave work at 2:00 PM. Team up with friends, coworkers, or neighbors in your Ward to take this action together and meet us at Freedom Plaza for a special activity. Pledge to participate at the form on this page.

The Cup is here. Let's use it to our advantage!  We’re holding a mass call for everyone ready to turn soccer fever into real-world action. Going to a Fan Fest? Learn how to organize the crowd. ...

On March 28, millions of us are rising again to show the world: the power belongs to the people. We don't do kings in America. Our nonviolent movement is only growing. Join our March 19 Kickoff Call...

Americans desperately need a Congress that can stop his reckless violence.

In February we celebrated 100 years of Black History month, with commemorations and invitations to communities to “reflect not only on the history itself, but on how the rituals of remembering have he...

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By Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries

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A directory of places to give to as Minnesota defends itself from ICE occupation

‘Big tent’ is a metaphor for a container wide enough for community organizers and issue-area advocates; institutional reformers; bridge-builders and dialogue practitioners; faith leaders; veterans and...

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Murderous Lies

The Unite for Veterans Coalition condemns today’s U.S. military strike in Venezuela and the U.S’s stated efforts to exert political control over the country.

By going around Congress, the president is showing contempt for the will of the public.

Some staff at the Department of Veterans Affairs are finding little to be merry about after the agency said it would eliminate tens of thousands of open, unfilled positions across the country as it lo...

Americans' refusals to accept apparent abuses of power by the federal government indicate that the political winds may be starting to shift.

For a long time, Target—that popular mega store that seemed to hit just the right combination of low prices and of-the-moment swagger—was everyone’s darling, the go-to spot for everything from groceri...

Two members of the West Virginia National Guard were shot in Washington, DC, near the White House. The Chamberlain Network thoughts are with these service members and their families, whose loved ...

During the month of October, we experienced one of the largest mobilizations in US history with the No Kings marches around the country and world; and this article from Harvard’s […]

As President Trump deploys ICE, Border Patrol, the National Guard and other forces to U.S. cities, here’s how to tell them apart — and what their powers are.

It is often said that the U.S.

Inside Philanthropy's David Callahan and the Black Feminist Fund's Tynesha McHarris continue their discussion of a crucial question: Should philanthropy center identity?

Julia Roig on why building relational infrastructure takes time

September has been a particularly frenetic month for all of us as the fight for democracy continues to be waged on several fronts. As Nonprofit AF reminds us, Let’s Try […]

Watch now | There’s something deeply paradoxical about how we approach social change in America. The more urgent our problems become, the more we retreat into silos. Democracy reformers work in isolat...

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Can America escape the spiral of political violence after Charlie Kirk’s killing?

We deserve a better explanation than polarization and cancel culture