Rachel Schragis

Sep 26, 2024 | forgeorganizing.org | Rachel Schragis |Josh Yoder |Andrew Friedman |Mark Engler

Get a behind the scenes at Look Loud, a cultural organization leveling up protests everywhere with beautiful, intentional, and powerful art. The Forge: What’s your background, and how do you relate to culture in organizing? Rachel: I grew up in New York City, in a secular Ashkenazi Jewish family that I characterize as fallen owning class.

Sep 26, 2024 | forgeorganizing.org | Shiv Kotecha |Rachel Schragis |Josh Yoder |Jennifer Epps-Addison

Shiv Kotecha explains the role of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) in fighting against Israel's use of culture as a weapon of genocide. For over nine months the world has witnessed Israel murder over 41,000 Palestinians in Gaza. That number, shocking as it is, is absolutely an undercount. Thousands — perhaps tens of thousands — remain trapped under the rubble of destroyed buildings.