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Jan 17, 2024 | 
convergencemag.com | Stephanie Luce |Emma Tai |Jackson Potter |Molly Shack
In early December around 100 people crammed into a church in downtown Buffalo for Our City Buffalo’s fifth annual Anti-Displacement Summit. Community and cultural organizers, policy experts, interpreters, Indigenous elders, writers and poets, parents and youth, and all kinds of Buffalonians educated themselves and each other on policies and community-rooted solutions to protect long-time residents and communities of color from the negative impacts of profit-driven economic development.
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Jan 9, 2024 | 
convergencemag.com | Sulma Arias |Stephanie Luce |Emma Tai |Jackson Potter
For the US Left, much of last year was marked by big shifts and big gatherings, taking stock and plotting paths. Convergence first conceived of this series before Hamas attacked Israel and Israel invaded Gaza, shattering lives and upending politics. But as the shadows of war and fascism deepen, so does our need for alignment, even as it becomes more difficult to buid.
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Jan 5, 2024 | 
convergencemag.com | Max Elbaum |Stephanie Luce |Emma Tai |Jackson Potter
A Convergence SeriesMax Elbaum tracks MAGA’s drive toward domination—and our efforts to block it while building independent progressive power. A mass slaughter of genocidal proportions backed by the current administration is taking place in Gaza. A candidate espousing US-style fascism has energized his base and makes no secret of his dictatorial day-one agenda.
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Dec 29, 2023 | 
convergencemag.com | Molly Shack |Stephanie Luce |Emma Tai |Jackson Potter
In the final days of 2023, we’re looking back at our offerings for the year. They reflect months of movement groups assessing, convening, strategizing and planning. We take account of the looming MAGA threat, but see signs of hope all over. Voters pushed back the radical right. Determined organizing that brought progressives into elected office yielded real gains. Workers seized the power they wield by striking, and made common cause with communities.
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Dec 14, 2023 | 
inthesetimes.com | Emma Tai
“How do oppressed people, facing far stronger opponents, sometimes win?”That’s the opening question of the new book Practical Radicals: Seven Strategies for Changing the World, by Deepak Bhargava and Stephanie Luce. It’s also the question that Bhargava asked Luce when he reached out to her about teaching a course on strategy for organizers.
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Dec 1, 2023 | 
convergencemag.com | Steven Gardiner |Stephanie Luce |Emma Tai |Jackson Potter
At the Nov. 14 March for Israel, sponsored by the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, and others, one of the invited speakers was Pastor John Hagee, a right-wing televangelist who combines anti-Semitic speech with staunch support for Israel. Hagee runs Christians United for Israel, the largest Zionist organization in the US today, with more members and greater funding than the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).
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Nov 21, 2023 | 
convergencemag.com | Dan Mcgrath |Harmony Goldberg |Stephanie Luce |Emma Tai
For decades, community organizing avoided electoral politics. Groups protested injustice and engaged in issue advocacy, bringing pressure to bear from the outside. Most steered clear of the “inside” work of governing, and the compromises that entails.
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Nov 15, 2023 | 
convergencemag.com | Deepak Bhargava |Stephanie Luce |Emma Tai |Jackson Potter
In Practical Radicals: Seven Strategies to Change the World, Stephanie Luce and Deepak Bhargava draw on their decades of movement experience and study to offer a deeply rooted guide for activists. Luce and Bhargava work together at the City University of New York’s School of Labor and Urban Studies; Luce is a longtime member of Convergence’s Print Team and a recent member of our Editorial Board.
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Nov 8, 2023 | 
convergencemag.com | Max Elbaum |Emma Tai |Jackson Potter |Ma-Riah Roberson-Moody
It is not easy to function in an emergency and prepare for a long-haul fight at the same time. But right now, all of us committed to peace and justice in Israel-Palestine need to meet that challenge. What’s more, all those concerned about the threat of racist authoritarianism in the US need to do the same.
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Nov 7, 2023 | 
convergencemag.com | Brooke Anderson |Stephanie Luce |Emma Tai |Jackson Potter
Twenty-one heads of state and more than 1,200 CEOs of global corporations will descend on San Francisco, CA for the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders Week and the related APEC CEO Summit beginning on Nov. 11. APEC is an intergovernmental forum of 21 “member economies” that meet annually for trade talks to advance “free trade” policies within the Asia Pacific region.
