The Future of Organizing
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Prospect has recently published two feature articles on the challenge of long-term, grassroots organizing as an essential ingredient in the project of rebuilding progressive politics and reclaiming American democracy. In my own article, I interviewed over 60 people across the progressive and Democratic ecosystem to explore the relations between a Democratic administration, the institutional Democratic Party at all levels, and the on-the-ground progressive movement. Ã
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Theda Skocpol and Caroline Tervo explored the complex and sometimes fraught relationship between the thousands of local Indivisible groups that sprang up after Donald Trumpâs election and the national Indivisible built since 2017 by the movementâs founders, Ezra Levin and Leah Greenberg.
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Wisconsin Voices workers at a Fair Maps fundraiser earlier this year. Photo courtesy of Wisconsin Voices Workers.
When workers at Wisconsin Voices told the progressive organizing and fundraising group that they had formed a staff union, they hoped the group’s leaders would accept their choice.
Wisconsin Voices has for years partnered with dozens of like-minded grass-roots activist groups involved in voter registration, racial justice, climate change and other issues. Many of its partner organizations have close ties with organized labor, and some have collective bargaining agreements with their own employees.