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1 week ago | 
convergencemag.com | Stephanie Luce |Rachel E. Luft |Eric Blanc |Kazu Haga
To turn around its decline and build enough power to defeat Trumpism, organized labor needs, among other things, a vigorous culture of debate. So I was happy to receive a thoughtful review of my new book We Are the Unionfrom Peter Olney, one of our country’s sharpest union organizers. He argues that worker-to-worker unionism is only a relatively small piece of a much bigger strategic arsenal and suggests that serious labor organizing should concentrate on the most economically powerful workers.
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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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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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May 17, 2024 | 
portside.org | Max Elbaum |Stephanie Luce
In the 1960s and the 2020s, Antiwar Movements Change the Landscape Published May 17, 2024 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.
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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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May 3, 2024 | 
portside.org | Stephanie Luce
Campus Protest: Here’s What You Should Worry About Published May 3, 2024 In case you haven’t followed it, students on over 140 campuses (and counting) around the US, and now globally, have been setting up encampments to demand that their universities take steps to end the war in Gaza. Over 2,000 people have been arrested around the country. You may not agree with their demands. And you might not like their strategy.
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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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Mar 26, 2024 | 
convergencemag.com | Steven Gardiner |Harmony Goldberg |Molly Shack |Stephanie Luce
Block & Build: Left Strategy in the MAGA Era is a new political education tool from Convergence designed to help us tackle the most urgent and strategic task of our political moment: blocking the rise of far-Right authoritarianism while building the capacity of progressive leadership in the anti-fascist front to set the standards and tenor of that struggle.
