Join us for best practices and cautionary tales from women running for office. What unique skills and leadership challenges present for women candidates? Hear from women on the front lines.
Posted by | May 7, 2015
The 2014 election was catastrophic for the progressive movement and the Democratic Party. Republicans gained a record number of seats in state legislatures and seized the governorships of several more...
Posted by | May 7, 2015
We love to talk about our GOTV successes: registering 10,000 voters on a shoestring budget, creating a great video that went viral, developing a tech innovation that changed the game....
Posted by | May 7, 2015
What is happening on Black Mesa, Arizona today compared throughout the years to what has happened in mountain communities in Appalachia by the coal industry? Shared human rights abuses at Black...
Posted by | May 7, 2015
Border Vigilantes and their Bullshit: Countering the Falsehoods that Fuel Violent Nativist Movements
Last summer saw the return of the vigilante border-watch 'Minutemen' movement, a revival of the bad old days when far-right extremists prowled the borderlands with weapons and threatening rhetoric. The...
Posted by | May 7, 2015
Many women's organizations don't connect well with younger women, especially those who are not politically engaged. Join us to learn some unique ways to organize ambitious, badass, millennial women and...
Posted by | May 7, 2015
2016 will bring not only a presidential contest but many other fights, from winning back control of the Senate to policy advocacy and state ballot initiatives. Progressives need a pipeline...
Posted by | May 7, 2015
The fear of deportation has made it easy for bad employers to exploit and retaliate against workers who try to assert their rights. This has played into the power divide...
Posted by | May 7, 2015
Hunger strikes and challenges to individual cases of abuse have exposed the harsh conditions inside for-profit detention centers and galvanized organizing in the migrant rights movement on the outside. Former...
Posted by | May 7, 2015
Storytelling is an important, effective tool for activism. Sharing a personal narrative is powerful and should be done both effectively and carefully. Our panelists regularly use their lived experiences with...
