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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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:
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Read Karundi Williams’ new op-ed:
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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:
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Read Karundi Williams’ new op-ed:
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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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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.
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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?
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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.
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July 28, 2025 at 7:06 PM
July 28, 2025 at 7:06 PM
July 28, 2025 at 7:06 PM
🧵(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.
July 28, 2025 at 7:06 PM
🧵(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.
While some South Asians climb the ranks of white supremacist power structures, others are building the most vital anti-fascist playbook of our time.
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July 23, 2025 at 2:32 PM
While some South Asians climb the ranks of white supremacist power structures, others are building the most vital anti-fascist playbook of our time.
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Ben Carroll, Organizing Coordinator for the Southern Workers Assembly details what it takes to build worker power in Spartanburg County,SC.
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July 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Ben Carroll, Organizing Coordinator for the Southern Workers Assembly details what it takes to build worker power in Spartanburg County,SC.
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The following case study defines “electoralizing” as a strategy that uses an election to help get a direct win on an issue campaign.
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July 4, 2025 at 4:57 PM
The following case study defines “electoralizing” as a strategy that uses an election to help get a direct win on an issue campaign.
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