Organizing
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Organizing 2.0, April 10-11, 2015: A conference for organizers, techies & activists @ Murphy
Organizing 2.0 brings together hundreds of leaders, organizers, fundraisers, techies and activists to share our collective wisdom, skills, and talents. There will be workshops, trainings, discussions, consulting and networking opportunities, visionary speakers, and a provocative debate around strategy and practices. Over two days here at the Murphy Institute, we will bring together hundreds of people
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Dreamers Unbound: Immigrant Youth Mobilizing
Immigrant youth organizing has grown to become one of the most vital social movement in existence today. How has this movement grown to where it is today? What are some of the pivotal strategic moments that have brought immigration reform to the center of mainstream discourse? An article in the latest issue of New Labor
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News Round-Up
Happy Friday! Each week, we come across interesting articles and stories around labor, community, and struggles for equity and justice in our changing world. Here’s a sampling of what we’ve found and liked on the world wide web in recent days: Over at Al Jazeera, Sarah Jaffe writes about the growing cooperative movement in New
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“A Different Type of Union”: How National Nurses United is Changing the Face of the Labor Movement
Since its formal inception in 2009, National Nurses United has emerged as one of the lone upstarts in the otherwise-contracting organized labor landscape. Defending nurses in the face of hospital budget cuts, the nurses are also fighting for increased safety for themselves and their patients. In The Little Union That Could from The Atlantic, journalist Alana
