![]() Prism’s Anoa Changa explores the way organizers in rural areas adapt their work to the specific needs and strengths of their communities.Ĭharles Khan from the Strong Economy for All writes about the challenges and opportunities of organizing in this moment - and why we need to put it all on the line right now. ![]() In this issue, we delve into the ways that organizers - many of whom have been fighting for racial justice for years and some of whom are brand new to the movement - have been innovating their strategies and tactics during the uprisings and the pandemic, finding creative ways to think about and organize around racial justice in various forms, from defunding the police to fighting for an accurate census and more. This is a moment to demand - and win - revolutionary change. Demonstrators have been in the streets every day for 91 days. There have been protests in over 2,500 cities and towns and in every state in the country, from deep blue New York to deep red Alaska. Millions of people have followed them into the streets, making this recent movement for Black lives the largest social movement in U.S. New organizers - many of them young, Black, and uncompromising - have stepped forward to lead the call to defund the police. Much of this pain has been concentrated in Black and brown communities, who are fighting the new pandemic of COVID-19 alongside the enduring pandemics of racism and racial violence.Īnd yet this moment has given us plenty of reasons to be hopeful. The past few months have wrought untold economic, emotional, and physical devastation. Read the rest of the series, Organizing, Innovation, and Upheaval, here. This story is part of a joint series by The Forge and Prism.
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