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Block and Build 2.0

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Recalibrating our strategy to block MAGA’s Project 2025 agenda is essential in building enough progressive power to go on the offensive. Key adjustments: tighter synergy of electoral and non-electoral action, and taking new steps to unite a progressive current rooted in the multi-racial, gender-inclusive working class.

Convergence: Towards a Radically Democratic Future

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Our movements can block the authoritarian right and build multi-racial democracy—if we align to sharpen our practice and shared strategy.

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Georgia Shows the Way, D.C. Shows the Stakes

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We've just seen a stark picture of the two paths that lie before us: a racial justice democracy or white authoritarianism.

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Count Every Vote!

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It's time to focus every bit of election defense work on the push to count every vote.

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This is Not a Drill LIVE, Oct 5

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OrgUp Live in conversation with Thenjiwe McHarris, Maurice Mitchell from the Working Families Party, Cindy Wiesner, a volunteer with the Frontline, and NTanya Lee from LeftRoots.

Racial Justice

Today’s Uprising and the Global Fight against Racism

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Organizer and historian Prexy Nesbitt in conversation with Max Elbaum about the uprising for Black Lives and the Global Struggle against racism.

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Electoral Strategy

This is Not a Drill: LIVE, August 12th

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The sprint to November 2020 is underway. The question remains: who will we bring into our growing coalition organized around racial justice and radical economic democracy?

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This is Not a Drill: LIVE, July 22nd

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Any strategy about the 2020 elections has to take very seriously the threats on particular communities. Black, trans, immigrant, and indigenous folks, are organizing hard to shape the outcome of the 2020 elections and beyond.

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This is Not a Drill LIVE, July 1: Bernie and Black Political Struggle

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Bill Fletcher Jr., Alicia Garza, Claire Sandberg, and Marcus Ferrell on the lessons from Bernie 2020 and the long arc of the Black Political Struggle.

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This is not a drill LIVE, June 10: Rebellions, Repression, and Elections

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The largest urban rebellions since the 1960s have sharpened the political and economic crises that were already unfolding. How should they impact left organizing strategy?