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Jul 17, 2024 | 
forwardky.com | Berry Craig |Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson |Jackson Potter |Stephanie Luce
“Have you heard about Project 2025?” Robert Reich asks in a follow up fund-raising email from Inequality Media Civic Action.
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Jul 17, 2024 | 
chicago.suntimes.com | Jackson Potter
Imagine walking down the hall of your school and seeing part of the ceiling caved in or a “danger” sign warning of asbestos. That’s what greeted students and staff at George Washington High School on the Southeast Side recently. At Minnie Miñoso Academy, a South Side elementary school, lead paint was found chipping from the ceilings and walls in a special education classroom. At Jahn Elementary, mold was found in classrooms.
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Jun 16, 2024 | 
convergencemag.com | Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson |Jackson Potter |Stephanie Luce
On Father’s Day 2024, which also falls on Eid-al-adha, please rise up with the spirit of Abidullah Al-Ansari Ghazi and Refaat Al Areer and watch this interview between Convergence Publisher Cayden Mak and Seemi Ghazi. Seemi Ghazi performs Refaat Alareer’s final poem, If I Must Die. “Sometimes a heart breaks.
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May 20, 2024 | 
convergencemag.com | Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson |Jackson Potter |Stephanie Luce
Convergence Magazine and Seed the Vote co-sponsored a special online event introducing the concepts, content, and applications of the “Block & Build Syllabus: Left Strategy in the MAGA Era.” The event previewed the syllabus content, looked back at its development and shared early experiences of its use. You can download the slides from the event here and see the syllabus itself here.
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Apr 17, 2024 | 
znetwork.org | Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson |Jackson Potter |Stephanie Luce
The right to strike, the eight-hour day, and the minimum wage have only been recognized by federal law since the 1930s. Even those basic protections come riddled with loopholes. Important groups, such as domestic workers and agricultural workers, are excluded. Now the right wing has its sights set on stripping away those rights won by more than a hundred years of hard organizing and bloody battles.
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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 7, 2023 | 
aft.org | Randi Weingarten |Jackson Potter |Todd Vachon |Daniel Collier
Share My Lesson: The PBL Journey Is Rocky—But Here Is Why It Is Worth It
