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Community Reckoning
On our 250th anniversary, it’s time to repair a legacy of stolen lives, stolen labor, and stolen land. Here’s how we do that, and how, together, we can…
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Community as Strategy: 10 Ways to create belonging and power where you live
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9 Ways You Can Use the Midterm Elections to Build Local Power
A flash from the past — great advice from two organizing luminaries, written in the midst of the first Trump administration.
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Finding real national pride on America’s 250th birthday
Only by repairing a legacy of stolen lives, stolen labor and stolen land can we find the path to a more perfect union. A new zine offers a roadmap.
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The joys and occasional sorrows of disconnecting from a phone
I left my phone at home!
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Italy’s “Slow Food” Pioneer: How My Love for Food Ripened into a Life’s Work
Carlo Petrini, founder of Slow Foods, has died at age 76. In 2013, I interviewed Carlo, a man whose passion for good food and a healthy and convivial…
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Washington Won’t Save Us; Our Neighbors Might
Why the midterms will be won or lost at the community level—and what that means for how we organize now.
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Soil, Not Oil
Petrochemical fertilizers built modern agriculture. The Iran War may be what finally breaks it—and opens the door to something better.
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In a Time of Crisis, Belonging Is the Strategy
A free zine — 10 practices to create dignity, power, and community where you live
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What Cuba Can Teach Us About Health Care
What can we learn from a system that offered medical access to the world’s poorest? And how did this contribute to the security of a nation under…
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What Do Authoritarians Fear Most? People Who Stick Up for Each Other.
The most reliable form of resilience is the same thing that strengthens resistance and belonging: local solidarity.
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Resources from “Community as Strategy"
The “Community as Strategy” zine drew inspiration from many people and organizations.
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Community Care
How belonging protects activists from burnout — and builds real power.
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The Price of Not Knowing: Iran, Corporate Interests, and America’s Cycle of Violence
Why did the United States help topple a democratic government in Iran some 70 years ago—and how did that decision create the conditions we’re seeing…
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How We Rise, with Sarah
How We Rise is all about how “we the people” are resisting fascism, reimagining our world, and rebuilding. And one other “R” — how we’re creating the resilience to withstand today’s hardships and to make it through the big transitions coming our way.
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