📢🚨Happy to announce that our book is finally here! We examine what commonalities exist across successful movements organizing in Black/Brown communities. How did they organize people to build the power they need for the change they want? (1/6) #prisms

press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book… Our argument starts w/the premise that such movements always face uncertainty. Effective mmts differentiate themselves not by how good their plan is at the outset but by how prepared they are to respond when their power is challenged. Power does not give up power easily. (2/6)

Amazing piece by @staceyabrams @gwlauren: "Organizing is the soul of this work. Building progressive governing power requires organizing."

nytimes.com/2021/02/11/opi… So much to love that it’s hard to know where to start.

It might begin w/the holistic analysis of interrelationships b/t organizing at the center, infrastructure thru party orgs and other vehicles, and strategic leadership.