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Shifting the Harmful Narratives and Practices of Work Requirements

NonProfit Quarterly

But where did they come from, and why are they still a central part of economic policy today? This series— Ending Work Requirements — based on a report by the Maven Collaborative, the Center for Social Policy, and Ife Finch Floyd, will explore the truth behind work requirements.

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Capitalism, the Insecurity Machine: A Conversation with Astra Taylor

NonProfit Quarterly

Organizing for justice is an insecure activity. How can recognizing shared insecurity spur social change and create a strategy to redefine security? AT: To redefine security, we need to cultivate an ethic of vulnerability. But it also shows how difficult it is to take on the work of organizing when you see injustice everywhere.

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The Challenge to Power

NonProfit Quarterly

Baker believed that the chapters needed to be activated, and she set about transforming them into semiautonomous direct-action units that spontaneously mobilized around local and state issues of concern. Baker began training local leaders—Rosa Parks, among them—to be activists.

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Thinking About the Long Term With Philanthropic Power Building

Stanford Social Innovation Review

This approach has been key to the remarkable progressive reshaping of California’s policy landscape, as well as to changes of national significance like Georgia’s blue shift. Building a new narrative for social change is a complex and long-term endeavor. Co-governance requires that bureaucrats cede authority.