Intersectional Organizing

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Kimeona Kāne (Kanaka ‘Ōiwi, Native Hawaiian) is a Kumu of Uhau Humu Pōhaku, or rock weaving: a lifeway that connects people to one another, to ‘āina, to ancestors, and to all of humanity. Kāne reflects on kuleana and community organizing as intergenerational responsibilities rooted in Kanaka relationships to one another.

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This case study examines the Dignity in Schools Campaign–California (DSC-CA) and its role in building a longer-term statewide grassroots movement to dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline. DSC-CA’s experience offers vital lessons for sustainable, multiracial, and intergenerational movement power.

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Todd Warren serves as a Statewide Campaign Strategist for Down Home North Carolina, an organization building power with working-class people across the state’s small towns and rural communities through campaigns on healthcare, public education, and climate justice.

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karen marshall leads Rethink New Orleans, an organization that supports Black youth in becoming critical, action-oriented leaders for systemic change. This essay traces karen’s political development through Caribbean and Pan-African socialist traditions with an emphasis on building genuine solidarity, both locally and globally.

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Candi Brings Plenty, the ACLU’s first Indigenous Justice Organizer for Wyoming and the Dakotas, shares her story and experiences which led her to organize and fight for her wakanyeja. They contextualize their warrior work—at Standing Rock, in state legislatures, and with youth councils—in a history of intergenerational trauma.

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James Haslam, founder of Rights & Democracy, shares how formative experiences in New England politicized him to fight for workers’ rights, healthcare, and fully-funded public education. He meditates on past examples and current analysis of intersectional approaches to organizing for a multiracial democracy.

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Manuel Criollo, senior partner with Organizing Roots – a school for revolutionary organizing – shares a perspective on what it takes to work toward full solidarity. He takes us through his organizing from riding with the Bus Riders Union through fighting truancy tickets for Los Angeles students.

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Cazembe Jackson, an organizer with Right to the City, shares his experiences around Black Southern Cultural Organizing traditions and learning from BOLD (Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity) in a fight for a world where everybody is treated with dignity and respect.

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