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The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice
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The Forge is an online journal & community for progressive organizers in the US & beyond. By and for community, labor, electoral, digital & movement organizers.
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🧵(3/3) It’s filled with on-the-ground case studies, frank critiques, and usable frameworks. This is the shared analysis our movements need. Our work. Our tool kit. Our tomorrow.

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December 11, 2025 at 6:52 PM
🧵(2/3) This issue answers the “how.” How do we dismantle old stories? How do we build new ones that stick? How does cultural work become power-building?

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December 11, 2025 at 6:52 PM
The same public subsidies that fund Memphis’s slumlords now bankroll Elon Musk’s pollution, revealing a single, profitable system that organizers are challenging by uniting the struggles for housing and environmental justice.

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December 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
This is a republish of part of a series of CCI substack posts and a policy brief exploring why the United States needs a Green Industrial Policy for Housing.

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December 11, 2025 at 2:05 PM
When floodwaters consumed the only roads into their Appalachian town, the community’s survival hinged on the deep trust and organizing muscle built by a local group over years.

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December 11, 2025 at 2:04 PM
The same systemic forces that steal Black communities’ cultural harvest are being met with an unbreakable resilience, as neighbors build solidarity networks, reclaim land, and seed a future where their culture can thrive.

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December 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
This interview was conducted in Fall 2025 with Valencia Gunder of The Smile Trust, about Razing Liberty Square, a documentary about the Black community of Liberty City and how they’re resisting climate gentrification.

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December 11, 2025 at 2:01 PM
In this panel, housing organizers have identified our most vital source of resilience as climate disasters intensify: the trust between neighbors, which they are forging into a powerful force for collective survival and justice.

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December 11, 2025 at 1:59 PM
In the face of a hostile legislature and stalled policies, Miami tenants have stopped asking politicians for help and started building their own power—by turning corporate landlords’ financial records into weapons.

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December 11, 2025 at 1:58 PM
In California, disaster-triggered renter protections are a crucial victory that contributes to a just recovery for working-class people facing the climate crisis.

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December 11, 2025 at 1:57 PM
The hallways of apartment buildings have become a new front in the climate fight, where tenant unions are battling for survival against the twin threats of negligent landlords and rising heat.

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November 20, 2025 at 4:32 PM
The era of “holding our lane” is over: we must now choose between building a single-issue movement or preserving the democracy necessary for any movement to survive.

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November 19, 2025 at 3:51 PM