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The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice @forgeorganizing.bsky.social · 8d

Let her victory fuel our ongoing duty. Honor her by continuing the fight for the dignity of all oppressed people. She proved our chains can be broken.

The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice @forgeorganizing.bsky.social · Sep 11

On Thursday, July 24th, just days before the IOF boarded the ship while it was closing in on Gaza, Sonali Kolhatkar reached Chris Smalls on the Handala and spoke with him about what it means to be in solidarity with Gaza.

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The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice @forgeorganizing.bsky.social · Sep 9

Today’s working conditions are making people sick and the widespread failure to recognize how profoundly the workplace shapes health has served to preclude needed progress and reforms.

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The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice @forgeorganizing.bsky.social · Sep 8

The money exists to resist authoritarianism and build something better. What’s missing isn’t resources—it’s imagination.

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The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice @forgeorganizing.bsky.social · Sep 3

Movements thrive when resources flow to both local organizing and national infrastructure. This isn’t the time for false choices. It’s time to invest in the full architecture of movement power.

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The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice @forgeorganizing.bsky.social · Aug 13

Relying solely on outside funding is a long-term threat to an organization. Could community unions be the answer to fight the right?

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The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice @forgeorganizing.bsky.social · Aug 7

In the last three years, 60% of the largest unions in the country have chosen new leadership. This presents an amazing opportunity for these new leaders to position labor as the bedrock of resistance to fascism.

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The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice @forgeorganizing.bsky.social · Jul 28

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The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice @forgeorganizing.bsky.social · Jul 28

🧵(1/4) This month, we pay tribute to the incomparable June Jordan. Join us as we revisit her words, reflect on her impact, and celebrate the legacy of a writer who dared to speak truth to power.

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The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice @forgeorganizing.bsky.social · Jul 23

While some South Asians climb the ranks of white supremacist power structures, others are building the most vital anti-fascist playbook of our time.

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The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice @forgeorganizing.bsky.social · Jul 7

Ben Carroll, Organizing Coordinator for the Southern Workers Assembly details what it takes to build worker power in Spartanburg County,SC.

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The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice @forgeorganizing.bsky.social · Jul 4

The following case study defines “electoralizing” as a strategy that uses an election to help get a direct win on an issue campaign.

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The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice @forgeorganizing.bsky.social · Jul 1

🧵(4/7) 5. Submit your work for publication. First research the markets that interest you. Seek out and study the books or magazines of publishers to whom you want to sell. Then submit your work. If the idea of doing this scares you, fine.

The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice @forgeorganizing.bsky.social · Jul 1

🧵(7/7) Stay tuned for Part 3 of Octavia Butler's Writing Advice.

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The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice @forgeorganizing.bsky.social · Jul 1

🧵(6/7) 6. Forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you’re inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won’t. Habit is persistence and practice.

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The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice @forgeorganizing.bsky.social · Jul 1

🧵(5/7) Go ahead and be afraid. But send your work out anyway. If it’s rejected, send it out again, and again. Rejections are painful, but inevitable. They’re every writer’s rite of passage.

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The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice @forgeorganizing.bsky.social · Jul 1

🧵(4/7) 5. Submit your work for publication. First research the markets that interest you. Seek out and study the books or magazines of publishers to whom you want to sell. Then submit your work. If the idea of doing this scares you, fine.

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The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice @forgeorganizing.bsky.social · Jul 1

🧵(3/7) 4. Revise your writing until it’s as good as you can make it. All the reading, writing, and classes should help you do this. Check your writing, your research (never neglect your research), and the physical appearance of your manuscript. Let nothing substandard slip through.

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The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice @forgeorganizing.bsky.social · Jul 1

🧵(2/7) Writing for publication may be both the easiest and the hardest thing you’ll ever do. Learning the rules — if they can be called rules — is the easy part. Following them, turning them into regular habits, is an ongoing struggle.

Here are the rules:

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The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice @forgeorganizing.bsky.social · Jul 1

🧵(1/7) PART 2 IS HERE! 📝📚 celebrating the continuation of our writing workshop with Octavia Butlers writing advice-

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The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice @forgeorganizing.bsky.social · Jul 1

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The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice @forgeorganizing.bsky.social · Jul 1

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