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Demand Democracy Defense w/ May Day Strong
Over the past few months Convergence has been discussing the many different ways people are organizing around the country to ensure the integrity of the midterm elections. We’ve also covered the myriad ways the Trump administration has signaled their intent to disrupt election…
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How Much Is Our Freedom Worth? Ending Corporate Support for Fascism
Featured image by Akin Olla Americans are guaranteed the right to have a say in who represents us in making decisions about our healthcare system, the quality of air we breathe, and how immigrants are treated. Yet the Trump regime has been laying the groundwork to interfere with…
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Organizing for the Long Haul Means Remaining Open Minded
Featured images by Elizabet Wendt One vital quality for staying involved in movements is openness. This is a willingness to consider that we might sometimes be wrong, an eagerness to learn from our mistakes, an ongoing sense of curiosity about the world, and a receptivity to new…
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Down Home North Carolina is Transforming the State, County by County
Featured image by Jared Rodriguez Every two years national media and political pundits characterize North Carolina as purple, blue, red, or an unexplainable secret fourth thing. Cycle after cycle, the media gets it wrong because they’re missing the growing independent political…
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Hold the Line: What You Can Do to Defend Democracy this Election Season
Featured image by Jared Rodriguez The 2026 midterm elections are less than one week away – and right now, our freedom to vote, to have our votes counted, and to have the results respected are all under threat. With increasing frequency, the Trump Administration makes its…
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Transforming Donors: The Revolution Could Be Funded
Featured images by Elizabet Wendt When funders are retrenching and we’re worried about making our budget, it can be hard to dream wildly about how to sustain not just our own organizations, but a vibrant Left ecosystem that has enough funding and scaled infrastructure to…
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Hate State – Discrimination on Colorado’s Ballot w/Ann Marie Awad
In 1992, the state of Colorado let voters decide to whether to discriminate against LGBTQ individuals by proposing Amendment 2, a law that would prohibit the state from enforcing anti-discrimination protections on the basis of sexual orientation. Voters passed it and earned…
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The Left Needs to Revisit Spirituality and History: Lessons from Walter Benjamin
Featured image by Jared Rodriguez As the Left, epitomized by the Democratic Socialists of America, resurges and Marxist thought returns to the fore as a real force, not simply as a bogeyman; as the midterms loom and, through them, we get our first taste of the 2028 Presidential…
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Accountability as Accompaniment: Moving from Punishment Towards Co-Responsibility
Featured illustration: Kimmie Dearest In conversations around cancel culture, the four of us have constantly heard the word ‘accountability’ used, but rarely do we build a shared understanding of what it means. That is our intention in this piece: to explore accountability as…
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Chicano Cultural Resistance, a Case Study Across Generations
Denver has ranked among the top seven most gentrified cities in the country every decade since the 1970s. During the pandemic, it was one of the fastest gentrifying cities in the country, second only to San Francisco. Surging eviction rates in 2024 forced thousands of people out…
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Building a Reparative Framework for Cultural Equity: Redesigning Creative Business Through Solidarity Economy
“To Fanon, culture meant only one thing—an environment shaped to help us and our children grow, shaped by ourselves against the system that enslaves us.” — Ayi Kwei Armah, in his critical essay “Fanon: The Awakener,” in Negro Digest, October 1969 In his 1969 review of Frantz…
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Election Defenders Organize For the Best, Prepare For the Worst
Featured image by Jared Rodriguez As part of our series on election protection for the midterms, this report focuses on the ecosystems that have come together to defend both the voting process and the results. In it we name names and include links so that readers can connect…
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Experience As a Whole: Expanding the Boundaries of Cultural Strategy
Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links to Convergence’s Bookshop. 10% of purchases made through our bookshop support our movement media work. Just as sunlight on a sunny morning isn’t experienced as separated wavelengths and colors, we don’t live our lives as beings…
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What is Cultural Justice?
“Cultural justice” is not a term we hear very often—or perhaps at all. We hear and read about social justice and racial justice, economic justice and environmental justice, gender justice and disability justice, and retributive justice and restorative justice. So, when asked if…
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Attention Economy Navigator – October 2026 w/Evan Greer
This week we are building our Attention Economy Navigator for the month of October 2026. It's our guide to what you should be paying more attention to, and what you can probably pay less attention to. And why those stories might not be what you’d assume. Joining to help build…
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Culture and the Moment
Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links to Convergence’s Bookshop. 10% of purchases made through our bookshop support our movement media work. “Why Culture Matters to Justice” is a series of essays commissioned by the National Performance Network as part of their Culture…
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A Referendum on Freedom w/Jane Fonda & Nadine Bloch
When authoritarian regimes consolidate power, they come for the artists first because artists name what is happening, make people feel what is true, and keep moral imagination alive when everything else is being suppressed. In this episode, Scot talks with two people who have…
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The Look of Election Defense w/Rachel Schragis and Josh Yoder
Day by day, it's becoming more difficult to predict any outcomes of the midterms. It's especially difficult to predict how Republicans might respond to varying degrees of defeat at the polls. President Trump has made his intentions to steal and bribe his way toward a MAGA…
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Guilt Is Not An Organizing Strategy
Featured image by Jared Rodriguez White Flank: Organizing White People for Racial Justice by Chandra Russo, Stanford University Press, 2026 Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links to Convergence’s Bookshop. 10% of purchases made through our bookshop support our movement…
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Unions Step Up to Meet the Moment
Featured image by Jared Rodriguez Since taking office, Trump and MAGA forces have made considerable advances in implementing Project 2025 and consolidating authoritarian power—but many of these moves have proved unpopular and undermined their support. With Trump’s approval…