A Magazine for Radical Insights
About Convergence
Convergence is a magazine for radical insights. We work with organizers and activists on the frontlines of today’s most pressing struggles to produce articles, videos and podcasts that sharpen our collective practice, lift up stories from the grassroots, and promote strategic debate. Our goal is to create the shared strategy needed to change our society and the world. Our community of readers, viewers, and content producers are united in our purpose: winning multi-racial democracy and a radically democratic economy.
Today, our movements continue to grow, but so too does the threat from the racist, authoritarian right. We believe we can defeat them, dismantle racial capitalism, and win the change we need by building a new governing majority that is driven by a convergence of grassroots social movements, labor movements, socialists, and progressives.
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Raves
Organizing Upgrade – now Convergence – is the best thing out there for serious thinking on the Left.
Robin D.G. Kelley, Professor of U.S. History at UCLA and author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination
We must dare to win. Winning justice means winning power. Winning power is about defeating the autocracy of the boss at work and racist authoritarian right in the streets and in the government. Convergence Magazine is a critical space for us to debate, exchange ideas, dream big, and then take action to win the world.
Lauren Jacobs, Executive Director, Powerswitch Action
One of the main tasks for our movement building efforts is to converge social movements to fight the right, save the planet and advance peoples’ power. Convergence Magazine is where we can turn theory, debate and practice into strategy.
Cindy Wiesner, Executive Director, Grassroots Global Justice Alliance
Staff & Contributors
Editorial Board
Rishi Awatramani
Tobita Chow
Xiomara Corpeño
Max Elbaum
Maikiko James
Stephanie Luce
Whitney Maxey
Marcy Rein
Jacob Swenson-Lengyel
Black Work Talk
Steven Pitts
Recording Engineer
Pedro Hernandez
Contributors
Calvin Cheung-Miaw
Julie Chinitz
Jennifer Disla
Ken Epstein
Van Gosse
Sandra Hinson
Gerald Lenoir
Isaac Ontiveros
Sam Winslow
Podcast Producer
Josh Elstro
Columnists
Bill Fletcher Jr.
Advisory Board
Stacy Davis Gates – President, Chicago Teachers Union
Bill Fletcher Jr. – former President, TransAfrica Forum
Harmony Goldberg – Director of Praxis, Grassroots Power Project
Alex Han – Organizing Coordinator, Bargaining for the Common Good
Richard Healey – Board Chair, Commonwealth Foundation
Jon Liss – Co-Executive Director, New Virginia Majority
Maurice Mitchell – National Director, Working Families Party
Tarso Ramos – Executive Director, Political Research Associates
Nik Theodore – Professor, University of Illinois Chicago
Cindy Wiesner – Executive Director, Grassroots Global Justice Alliance
Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson – Co-Executive Director, Highlander Center