Governing Power

Students and parents protesting at school board meeting.

Local Power Building

Right to the City

Can Oakland’s New Leaders Save Its Schools and Port?

by: Ken Epstein; and Kitty Kelly Epstein
Article published:: January 30, 2023

Candidates who pledged to make Oakland work for everyone swept the November elections. They face two huge hurdles to making that real: proposals to close more schools, and to build a stadium plus luxury housing at the Port of Oakland.

Local Power Building

Right to the City

Black Work Talk by Convergence

Carroll Fife: ‘A Movement Person Having a Political Experience’

Foreground: a Black man with a shaved head and a face mask reading "VOTE." He's taking a selfie with a large crowd in the background.

Danger from the Right

Debriefing the 2022 Midterms: Hard Wins and Historic Threats

By: DaMareo Cooper ,; Kendra Cotton ,; Matthew Hanson ,; Michael Podhorzer ,; and Nancy MacLean

Multiracial group of people posed, some standing others kneeling, smiling, some with fists up.

Rural Organizing

The Path to Building Power Runs Through Rural America

By: Sarah Jaynes

Midterm Takeaways: Community Change/Action

By: Grecia Lima

Midterm Takeaways: Pennsylvania United

By: Sam Smith

Restaurant Workers

Midterm Takeaways: How Tipped Workers Won in DC

By: Matthew Hanson; and Nikolas Schiller

Group of canvassers for the DC Tipped Minimum Wage Campaign

Midterm Views From the Grassroots, Part 3

Elianne Farhat

Midterm Takeaways: TakeAction Minnesota

By: Elianne Farhat