The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice
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The Forge is an online journal & community for progressive organizers in the US & beyond. By and for community, labor, electoral, digital & movement organizers.
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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.
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Real strategy, real stories, for the fight to change what’s possible. Dive in, retool, and share widely.
READ NOW: forgeorganizing.org/issues/narra...
🧵(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...
READ NOW: forgeorganizing.org/issues/narra...
December 11, 2025 at 6:52 PM
🧵(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...
READ NOW: forgeorganizing.org/issues/narra...
🧵(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?
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December 11, 2025 at 6:52 PM
🧵(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...
READ NOW: forgeorganizing.org/article/invi...
🧵(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...
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...
December 11, 2025 at 6:52 PM
🧵(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...
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...
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...
Real strategy, real stories, for the fight to change what’s possible. Dive in, retool, and share widely.
READ NOW: forgeorganizing.org/issues/narra...
December 11, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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...
Real strategy, real stories, for the fight to change what’s possible. Dive in, retool, and share widely.
READ NOW: forgeorganizing.org/issues/narra...
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.
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READ NOW:
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December 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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:
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READ NOW:
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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.
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December 11, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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...
READ HERE:
forgeorganizing.org/article/putt...
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.
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December 11, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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...
READ NOW:
forgeorganizing.org/article/less...
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.
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READ HERE:
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December 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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...
READ HERE:
forgeorganizing.org/article/what...
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.
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December 11, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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...
READ NOW:
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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:
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READ HERE:
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December 11, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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...
READ HERE:
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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.
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December 11, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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:
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READ NOW:
forgeorganizing.org/article/usin...
In California, disaster-triggered renter protections are a crucial victory that contributes to a just recovery for working-class people facing the climate crisis.
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READ HERE:
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December 11, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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:
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READ HERE:
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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.
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November 21, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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...
READ NOW:
forgeorganizing.org/article/thre...
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:
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READ HERE:
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November 20, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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...
READ HERE:
forgeorganizing.org/article/as-c...
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.
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November 19, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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.
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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.
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READ NOW:
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November 17, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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-...
READ NOW:
forgeorganizing.org/article/how-...
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...
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...
November 12, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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...
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...
"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."
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October 23, 2025 at 3:47 PM
"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."
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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.
October 3, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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.
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:
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READ HERE:
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September 11, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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...
READ HERE:
forgeorganizing.org/article/labo...
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.
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September 9, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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.
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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...
Read Karundi Williams’ new op-ed:
forgeorganizing.org/article/we-s...
September 8, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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...
Read Karundi Williams’ new op-ed:
forgeorganizing.org/article/we-s...
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.
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READ:
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September 3, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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...
READ:
forgeorganizing.org/article/we-s...
Relying solely on outside funding is a long-term threat to an organization. Could community unions be the answer to fight the right?
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August 13, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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-...
READ MORE:
forgeorganizing.org/article/how-...
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.
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August 7, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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...
READ MORE:
forgeorganizing.org/article/labo...