Fundamentals of Organizing

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Fundamentals of Organizing
CORONAVIRUS
covid-19
POLITICS
Peope's Action Institute
The Next Move
Next Move
People's Action
George Goehl
community organizing
rural America

We’re talking about applying the craft of organizing to build the future we want. Host George Goehl, one of the nation’s leading progressive organizers, interviews trailblazers who have defined the vanguard of the field--innovators who take organizing fundamentals to uncharted territory. Each episode connects to key principles of organizing, exploring the history of the craft and how it lives and breathes in the work being done on the ground today.

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Credits

George Goehl
Amy S. Choi
Rebecca Lehrer
Sara Pellegrini
Melissa Lo
Shelby Sandlin
Stacy Wood

Coming Soon: The Next Move

Welcome to The Next Move. In The Next Move, we’re talking about building the future we want out of this moment of darkness. Our host, George Goehl is one of the nation’s leading progressive organizers. Since COVID-19 hit, George found there was no shortage of people who could tell him just how screwed we are. But he wanted to talk with people focused on solutions and action. Across the eight-episode series, George Goehl will interview eight experts on transforming our social contract to build the future we want. This podcast will describe the society we want to build out of the wreckage -- and map out how we’ll build it together.

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Making Meaning with Maurice Mitchell

The pandemic has merged with this incredible moment of uprising. The uprising is opening the opportunity to win real structural change for Black Lives now. There’s nowhere to hide from a conversation about racism in America, and our collective agitation is a really good thing. Maurice Mitchell, the National Director of The Working Families Party and a leader in the Movement for Black Lives, shares more about this opportunity for mass education, the multi-racial coalition against white supremacy, the fight against cynicism, and the winning math of adding rather than subtracting.

You can find Maurice Mitchell on Twitter @mauricewfp

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About People's Action

People’s Action is a national network of 40 state and local grassroots, power-building organizations united in fighting for justice.

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Essential Work with Ai-jen Poo

Overnight essential work has become part of the global lexicon. Ai-jen Poo, founder and Executive Director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, talks to George about forging a new common sense out of this vocabulary--and the opportunity we have to re-examine how we think about work and what work we value.

Ai-jen is the executive director of National Domestic Workers Alliance, director of Caring Across Generations, and co-host of Sunstorm (@sunstormpod). You can find her on Twitter at @aijenpoo.

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About People's Action

People’s Action is a national network of 40 state and local grassroots, power-building organizations united in fighting for justice.

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Rent Is Due with Tara Raghuveer

Rent is due and sheltering in place becomes infinitely more difficult if you can’t make rent. In this episode, George talks about our national housing crisis with Tara Raghuveer, Director of KC Tenants and the Housing Campaign Director for People’s Action -- and what our world can look like if we detach profit motives from the provisioning of basic needs, like a place to call to home.

Tara Raghuveer is the Director of KC Tenants and the Housing Campaign Director for People’s Action. You can find her on Twitter @taraghuveer

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About People's Action

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Merging Race and Class with Ian Haney Lopez

Dog whistle politics is a long held strategy of American politics. George talks to Ian Haney Lopez, Professor of Public Law at UC Berkeley, about how the rich and powerful use racism as a weapon to sow a divide between race and class. This divide has only been made clearer during the pandemic and the weeks of uprisings around racial justice. But if we name this strategy, perhaps we can merge race and class and build the country we want. A multiracial democracy that works for all of us.

Ian Haney Lopez is Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Public Law at UC Berkeley and Director of the Racial Politics Project at the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society. His latest book is Merge Left: Fusing Race and Class, Winning Elections, and Saving America. You can find him on Twitter @IanHaneyLopez

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About People's Action

People’s Action is a national network of 40 state and local grassroots, power-building organizations united in fighting for justice.

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Government For All Of Us with Heather McGhee

What role can our government play in making our lives better? And what role can we play in our government? Heather McGhee, Distinguished Senior Fellow and former President of Demos, is just the person to answer these questions. In this episode, George talks to Heather about building on our gut-level interconnectivity towards a more inclusive future, and about what learnings they have from being on the frontlines of the 2008 financial crisis and how they are applying those learnings today.

Heather McGhee is Distinguished Senior Fellow at Demos. She is author of the forthcoming book, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together. You can find her on Twitter: @hmcghee

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About People's Action

People’s Action is a national network of 40 state and local grassroots, power-building organizations united in fighting for justice.

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Building a Coalition with Robert Kraig

Because the pandemic has intensified the unequal, dangerous structure of our healthcare system, we need to establish healthcare as a guaranteed right for everyone. Which means now is the time for bold mandates and the creation of a new common sense that centers on a coalitional government. George talks with Robert Kraig, Executive Director of Citizen Action of Wisconsin, about lessons we’ve learned from the New Deal and the Works Progress Administration, and even the Great Recession, about building a healthier, more equitable future.

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Make a F*@&ing Play with Marisa Franco

We are becoming an America we’ve never been. Marisa Franco, director and co-founder of Mijente, talks with George about organizing infrastructure to support progressive leadership in the immigrant rights and broader Latinx and Chicanx community. This brutal moment of recovering, unlearning, and remembering is teaching us that we are only as safe and healthy as the most vulnerable among us -- and that through inclusive collectivity, we can move from respectability politics to strong, multiracial alliances and people power.

Marisa Franco is the Phoenix-based Director and Co-founder of Mijente, a hub for Latinx and Chicanx organizing and movement-building. You can find her on Twitter @marisa_franco.

You can learn more at peoplesaction.org/nextmove.

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Onward with George Goehl

Today George is reflecting on what he has learned over the course of this season. Between the impacts of COVID on the US and the racial justice reckoning that is so deeply intertwined with the disproportionate impact of COVID on Black and Brown Americans, George is feeling challenged and hopeful for a better future. This is the biggest moment to advance justice for Black Lives in America in a generation and it has the potential to be a long and transformative moment in American life. Everyone can be an organizer and everyone is organizable. Let's get to it.

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Coming Soon: Season 2 of The Next Move

In Season 2 of The Next Move, we’re talking about applying the craft of organizing to build the future we want. Host George Goehl, one of the nation’s leading progressive organizers, interviews trailblazers who have defined the vanguard of the field--innovators who are taking organizing fundamentals to uncharted territory. Each episode connects to one of eight key principles of organizing, exploring the history of the craft and how it lives and breathes in the work being done on the ground today.

Guests include Alicia Garza, Doran Schrantz, Stephen Robeson, Miya Yoshitani, Jess Morales Rocketto, Gerald Taylor, and Caroline Murray.

People’s Action is a national network of 40 state and local grassroots, power-building organizations united in fighting for justice.

Learn more at peoplesaction.org/nextmove

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