Community Spaces Offer Refuge as Rights Erode This Immigrant Heritage Month
For Immigrant Heritage Month, those who participate in the Community Cafecitos space share what inspired them to join, as well as their hopes for a more welcoming future.
Category: Community Organizing
Directly Impacted People Won Funding for the Nation’s First County-Level Permanent Guaranteed Income Program – Now They Fight to Design What it Looks Like
“It’s a matter of us as a guaranteed income union making sure that our voices, perspectives, and needs are heard.”
100-Day Check-In: Stressful Times for Those in Safety Net Programs
People who rely on programs like SNAP and Medicaid share how they feel about this presidential administration so far – and what they worry about most now
Want to Fight Modern Authoritarianism? Look to Black History
Winning Black-led movements followed three steps: Resist, coalition-build, and do it with joy.
These Mutual Aid Organizations in Central Florida Show Us a Model for Community-Building We Could All Use Right Now
The stories and work of Blue Trunk Community, Las Semillas, and the Neighborhood Fridge might inspire you to build something of your own. Mutual aid work teaches us how to have a better world that fulfills our needs and changes the status quo.
Poem Helps Us Recognize Ways Oppression Shows Up
The way to fight back is to keep calling it out.
Advice from Gen Z Organizers on the Art of Love and Empowerment in Organizing
My generation is often overlooked by those in power. I interviewed four organizers who show up to fight every day.
Singing His Way to Freedom: Remembering Civil Rights Leader Hollis Watkins
Watkins left behind a legacy of service, organizing, and civil disobedience for racial and economic justice.
Researchers Launch First of Its Kind Analysis of Parent Organizing
Amid all of the buzz about parents’ rights, this report unveils a landscape of mother of color-led organizing and leadership development that’s happening in every pocket of the country.
Women’s History Month Spotlight: Afua Atta-Mensah on the Black Immigrant Experience
From Ghana to New York, Community Change’s Chief of Programs talks about the international movement for Black liberation.