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  • Cooperative Ways to Weather the Silver Tsunami

    December 07, 2023 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    Worker cooperatives, which are worker-owned and democratically operated, are spreading across the United States as a response to the large number of baby-boomer-owned businesses closing with no succession plan. Baltimore’s Common Ground Cafe is an example of staff, the community, and a local cooperative incubator coming together to do just that.

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  • The Grassroots Fight for Housing Justice in Baltimore

    December 27, 2022 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    Parity Homes is an equitable development company that is working to rehab properties that will be available for legacy residents to buy or rent for an affordable price in 2023. The organization aims to prevent residents — specifically people of color — from being pushed out of the neighborhood by supporting wealth creation through homeownership.

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  • The Fight for Housing Justice in Los Angeles

    December 05, 2022 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    The Downtown Crenshaw group was inspired by the success of community land trusts, a model that keeps ownership of land and housing in the hands of the community, who can choose to keep it permanently affordable while providing tenants a pathway to wealth building. Since May 2021, the group has purchased 10 parcels of land, which will be developed into residential and commercial space that’s affordable for longtime residents and businesses.

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  • In the Netherlands, Safe Drug Consumption Sites Are Saving Lives. The U.S. Is Resisting.

    September 14, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Netherlands, Amsterdam

    In the Netherlands, safe consumption sites provide a clean, supervised space for drug users to go without worrying about legal ramifications. The sites not only help prevent overdoses, with zero overdose deaths reported at safe consumption sites, but also connect patrons with harm-reduction information, alternatives such as methadone, supportive housing, mental health treatment, and other social services.

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  • How Native organizers won voting access and reached record turnout in 2020

    June 15, 2022 |

    The Real News Network |

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    Response Location: United States, Nevada

    Native organizers in Nevada secured voting access on tribal lands by overcoming a number of obstacles. The organizers successfully took the state of Nevada to court to finally have polling sites on their reservations. That win was the result of grassroots efforts to fight against voter suppression.

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  • How organizers in rural North Carolina are bridging racial and class divides

    June 03, 2022 |

    The Real News Network |

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    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, North Carolina

    Canvassers with Down Home North Carolina approach conversations with voters not as an opportunity to promote their cause or ideology, but as a chance to learn about voters' personal experiences and how those experiences shape their approach to political issues. The strategy, called deep canvassing, is based on active listening and nonjudgmental discussion and was found in one study to be more effective than traditional canvassing in winning over rural swing voters.

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  • How Georgia's Latinx community is working to 'out-organize' voter suppression

    May 29, 2022 |

    The Real News Network |

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    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Georgia

    Organizers and community leaders in Georgia are pushing back against restrictive voting laws that disproportionately affect communities of color. The Latinx community is mobilizing against those efforts by empowering its members to “unlock their political power.” Their efforts include voter outreach, translation services, and education.

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  • Jailed for a crime she didn't commit, Dreama Caldwell is now taking on the system

    April 20, 2022 |

    The Real News Network |

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    Response Location: United States, Alamance County, North Carolina

    Community organizers are leading grassroots efforts for racial and economic justice in North Carolina. Dreama Caldwell is working with the Down Home North Carolina group to engage with local residents, participate in political races, counteract misinformation, and build “a political platform that emphasizes multiracial and cross-class solidarity.”

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  • These rural organizers have found an answer to dog whistle politics: Multi-racial, working-class solidarity

    March 24, 2022 |

    The Real News Network |

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    Response Location: United States, North Carolina

    Organizers with Down Home North Carolina use deep canvassing, a door-knocking strategy based on active listening and in-depth, nonjudgmental conversation, to spark political discussions with voters who are often left out of the democratic process. Canvassers are trained to center issues of race and class to build solidarity across demographics and recorded high levels of support from voters in 82% of conversations surveyed between November 2021 and January 2022.

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  • How progressives are winning over the rural voters Democrats abandoned

    March 08, 2022 |

    The Real News Network |

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    Response Location: United States, Pennsylvania

    Pennsylvania Stands Up has effectively built support for progressive causes in rural areas using deep canvassing techniques, which emphasize active listening and asking non-judgemental questions instead of political sloganeering.

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