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Everything’s About To Change
We’ve written in past blogs about the pivotal nature of the moment facing labor unions and progressive organizations. This blog is a little different. This is the start of a story. One that I view through a lens that assumes two rapidly approaching inevitabilities: a wide-scale energy transition, and the development of the workforce we…
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Scale & Pace in Organizing
The story began on Tuesday, November 7th, 2000. I was a college student, newly awakened to the importance of politics, hunched forward on my sofa as the results of the presidential election rolled in. I remember the anxiety I felt, wondering which direction the nation was going to go. The stakes were high. I fell…
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America’s Organizing Renaissance
We are at the beginning of an organizing groundswell like we haven’t seen in decades. Working people are showing their courage, taking fights straight to America’s most ubiquitous corporations— and they’re winning. Success begets success; victories inspire new battles. Progressive membership-driven organizations like labor unions need to be ready to ride the coming wave, and…
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Machine Learning and Progressive Organizing — NOW Is The Time
The quality of life for working people in America has been in sharp decline for years, and now the situation is untenable. The vast majority of people are caught in a chokehold between rising costs and stagnant wages. We need new innovations on a much larger scale if we want to turn the tide back…

