Radical Organizing 101: Training with MORE in St. Louis
For the past three weeks, I’ve been in St. Louis in a three-week immersive organizing training with the organization MORE (Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment). I’ve grown and changed as a person so much in these three weeks, and more »
One Struggle, Many Fronts Speaking Tour
All of us in Maypop work part-time jobs in order to fund our work with Maypop. We’ve worked at farmer’s markets, cheesesteak shops, and non-profits. For the last six months, I’ve been fortunate to have a position with the US-Africa more »
Young People’s Just Transition Project
What is that community wisdom that teaches us how to stay together in times of hardship? That teaches us to heal and to thrive when we’ve suffered and struggled? How do we share this long-held wisdom with young people, as more »
Progressive Philly Rising after the People’s Campaign
A couple Thursdays ago I woke up to a barrage of texts and emails: “Hanger is withdrawing from the race!” I opened my computer to vet the rumors: “Former DEP Secretary John Hanger will end his campaign for governor today more »
The Divestment Training Roadshow
Last week, I teamed up with climate justice educator Johanna DeGraffenreid and social media storyteller Joe Solomon for the Divestment Training Roadshow, a traveling set of workshops held at 8 East Coast colleges with fossil fuel divestment campaigns. As an more »
Divestment Roadshow: The knowledge is in the room
Sunday, February 23, 2014: At the end of my presentation, I pose three questions for campaigns to discuss in small groups: How could being part of a national network help your campaign? If you were in a room with divestment more »
Divestment Roadshow: New York City
Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014: Here we are: waking up in Diego Ibanez’s apartment in Brooklyn, with his cat poised acrobatically over the trash can, licking the cat food tin. Birds are chirping outside–I don’t even hear birds in the mornings more »
Divestment Roadshow: First stop
Monday, February 17, 2014 Today’s the first day of the tour—we meet at the Tenleytown metro station and actually, that is a real meeting: I’ve never met Johanna in person before. American University is the inaugural presentation. None of us more »
Divestment Roadshow: In the beginning
Sunday, February 16: I packed my bags and headed to the bus station. First stop, Washington, D.C. The Roots and Media Divestment Roadshow’s inaugural presentation. Take a deep breath. The Roots and Media Divestment Roadshow is the brainchild of Johanna more »
Our Journey So Far
Alexa Ross: As the end of one year was giving way to the next I ate cheeseburgers with a new mentor, someone who’s seen the shapes colonialism and addiction and healing take over time. I grasped at new patterns of more »
Reportback from Feb. 1 Progressive Philly Rising!
Hannah Jones: When the Maypop Collective was first approached about joining a newly-emerging progressive coalition in Philadelphia that was backing John Hanger for governor, I was conflicted. I have been disappointed by electoral officials time and time again. I was more »
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