Aditi Juneja

Oct 24, 2023 | forgeorganizing.org | Waleed Shahid |Beth Huang |Aditi Juneja |Robert Kuttner

"While some fringe parts of the activist left confusingly mapped on the “Black Lives Matter” vs “All Lives Matter” discourse onto Israelis and Palestinians, where it became inappropriate or uncool to mourn or even acknowledge “Israeli lives,” other leaders showed a different path forward: a politics of solidarity where every human being is precious and has value." Much ink has been spilled in mainstream and progressive media about toxicity on the left as it pertains to its response to the...

Oct 9, 2023 | forgeorganizing.org | Beth Huang |Aditi Juneja |Robert Kuttner |Hollie Russon Gilman

A decades' long right-wing assault on membership organizations led to the collapse of the US Student Association in 2017. What can organizers take away from the last decade of organizational death in the student movement? “USSA is dead,” my friend told me over the phone. I felt like I had been punched in the gut, even though for years I had known that I would eventually hear these words.