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Jun 21, 2024 | 
convergencemag.com | Steven Gardiner |Waleed Shahid |Harmony Goldberg |Molly Shack
We have to look at political parties differently than we look at other institutions, like segregated schools and lunch counters, because a political party is not only the product of social relations, but an instrument of change as well. It is the Dixiecrats and the other reactionaries who want to paralyze the Democratic Party in order to maintain the status quo.
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Jun 12, 2024 | 
convergencemag.com | Steven Gardiner |Steve Early |Harmony Goldberg |Molly Shack
A familiar scene played out in the city council chambers of Richmond, California on May 22, 2024. For the last 20 years, since members of the anti-Chevron Richmond Progressive Alliance (RPA) first got elected to the council, any measure before that body affecting the city’s largest employer and business tax payer has been hotly debated.
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Jun 5, 2024 | 
convergencemag.com | Steven Gardiner |Daniel Goulden |Harmony Goldberg |Molly Shack
After years of organizing for a Green New Deal, the Inflation Reduction Act—while far from perfect—offers major new opportunities for bringing about a just transition.
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May 13, 2024 | 
convergencemag.com | Steven Gardiner |Harmony Goldberg |Molly Shack |Stephanie Luce
A Convergence Series Read previews and excerpts from Power Concedes Nothing, a must-read new book from Convergence and O/R Books. Lecciones críticas de organizadores en las elecciones de 2020 disponibles aquí.
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May 9, 2024 | 
convergencemag.com | Steven Gardiner |Max Elbaum |Stephanie Luce |Harmony Goldberg
As the war on Gaza enters its seventh month of unrelenting destruction, students around the world are setting up encampments and occupying buildings to press their institutions to cut financial and academic ties with Israel. Their peaceful and passionate protests are bringing a new level of intensity to the multi-sided movement supporting Palestine. They also recall and build on a living history of similar student actions, from those demanding an end to the Vietnam War in the late 1960s on.
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Apr 25, 2024 | 
convergencemag.com | Steven Gardiner |Max Elbaum |Harmony Goldberg |Molly Shack
“The white riot of January 6, 2021, at the US Capitol Building is impossible to understand without reference to earlier, yet strikingly similar, efforts during the First Reconstruction period. In both cases there were attempts to violently overthrow democratically held elections won with the aid of Black votes.
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Apr 24, 2024 | 
convergencemag.com | Steven Gardiner |Jerry Harris |Harmony Goldberg |Molly Shack
It may come as a surprise, but the Right has been studying the work of Antonio Gramsci for years—and his ideas on the importance of culture and ideology have made a big impact on them. They concluded the Left has been following Gramsci’s lead ever since the cultural revolution of the 1960s, and captured the press, the universities, civil society, and most government institutions.
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Apr 22, 2024 | 
convergencemag.com | Steven Gardiner |Pranay Somayajula |Harmony Goldberg |Molly Shack
More than 100 American civil society organizations have issued a joint declaration expressing “acute concern about the alarming rise of Hindu supremacy, also known as Hindutva or Hindu nationalism, in the United States.” The declaration, whose signatories included groups such as the Movement for Black Lives, Jewish Voice for Peace, and Grassroots Asians Rising, was compiled by Savera: United Against Supremacy—an interfaith, multiracial, and anti-caste coalition of Indian-American and partner...
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Apr 17, 2024 | 
convergencemag.com | Steven Gardiner |Bob Master |Harmony Goldberg |Molly Shack
A remarkable wave of militancy surged across the US working class in 2023.
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Mar 29, 2024 | 
convergencemag.com | Steven Gardiner |William Lawrence |Harmony Goldberg |Molly Shack
I believe in DSA. When Listen To Michigan’s “Vote Uncommitted” campaign was seeking organizational allies to donate infrastructure, volunteers, and staff time, every other major left-progressive organization in Michigan had to keep their involvement behind the scenes and off the record. DSA, on the other hand, was able to take the leap wholeheartedly. There really is a “DSA difference” when it comes to taking challenging and independent political positions.
