by Steven Rosenfeld | Mar 5, 2021 | Blog, Election, Featured
After winning a lawsuit to take possession of all of the 2020 presidential ballots and election equipment in Arizona’s most populous county, Arizona’s Republican-led Senate is poised to take 2020’s post-election brawls into new territory where investigating unproven...
by Jodi Risper | Dec 22, 2020 | Blog, Criminal Justice, Election, Featured
Black People Showed Up for Biden; Now We Need an Attorney General Who Will Show Up for Us President-Elect Joe Biden and Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris have both struggled to answer for their histories of promoting “tough-on-crime” policies which have harmed Black...
by George Goehl | Nov 14, 2020 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Featured
Like all of us, I’ve sorted through many feelings this week. And, there’s been one constant. Gratitude for organizers. If you take organizers and the local institutions they’ve built off the table, Donald Trump is a two-term President. I feel certain of that. To be...
by George Goehl | Aug 3, 2020 | Election, Featured
As a young organizer, I was told we shouldn’t engage in electoral politics - that it was dirty, and a distraction. But after a long run of not winning what we most needed, it became crystal clear that operating only in a landscape created by someone else was not...
by Miles Mogulescu | Jul 31, 2020 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Featured, Protest
Photo credit: Spider Martin GPA photo archive / flickr / cc John Lewis, the Georgia Congressman who led the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and was one of the "Big Six" civil rights leaders who organized the 1963 March on Washington, is being...
by Miles Mogulescu | Jun 30, 2020 | Blog, Election, Featured
“Don’t Mourn, Organize.” - Union organizer Joe Hill, before his unjust execution in Utah in 1915 “Shut up and dribble.” - Laura Ingraham to LeBron James for commenting on racial justice Dear LeBron, Basketball fans endlessly argue about who’s the greatest player...