Building the Bigger We: Popular Education Talks for the People

Join us for a new series bringing power-building organizers into conversation with bold movement thinkers.

Calling In: How to Start Making Change with Those You'd Rather Cancel

📖 Featuring: Loretta J. Ross
🗓️ Date: Friday, April 24th
⏰ Time: 2:00–3:30 PM ET | 1:00–2:30 PM CT | 12:00–1:30 PM MT | 11:00 AM–12:30 PM PT
About the Speaker: Loretta J. Ross is an activist, professor, and public intellectual with five decades in the human rights movement, including deprogramming white supremacists and co-founding the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective. Her honors include a 2022 MacArthur Fellowship and 2024 induction into the National Women's Hall of Fame. She currently serves as an associate professor at Smith College and founder of LoRossta Consulting.
Session Overview: This session explores her "Calling In" methodology for starting meaningful change with those you'd rather cancel, drawing on her extensive experience leading training sessions for organizations nationwide.

Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict

📖 Featuring: Dr. Maria Stephan
🗓️ Date: Friday, May 22nd
⏰ Time: 2:00–3:30 PM ET | 1:00–2:30 PM CT | 12:00–1:30 PM MT | 11:00 AM–12:30 PM PT
About the Speaker: Dr. Maria Stephan brings expertise in civil resistance strategy to help participants apply these insights to contemporary movements.
Session Overview: Drawing on data and global case studies, this book explores why nonviolent resistance often succeeds through broader participation, tactical innovation, and shifting loyalty within pillars of power including the military. At a critical political moment, this space is about sharpening strategy and deepening relationships with authors, artists, and organizers to strengthen how we build power and resist together.

Power Concedes Nothing: How Grassroots Organizing Wins Elections

📖 Featuring: Max Elbaum
🗓️ Date: Friday, June 26th
⏰ Time: 2:00–3:30 PM ET | 1:00–2:30 PM CT | 12:00–1:30 PM MT | 11:00 AM–12:30 PM PT
Book Overview: The November 2020 US election was arguably the most consequential since the 1860 election of Abraham Lincoln—and grassroots leaders and organizers played crucial roles in the contention for the presidency and control of both houses of Congress. Power Concedes Nothing tells the stories behind a victory that won both the White House and the Senate and powered progressive candidates to new levels of influence. It describes the on-the-ground efforts that mobilized a record-breaking turnout by registering new voters and motivating an electorate both old and new. In doing so, it charts a viable path to victory for the vital contests upcoming in 2024.
Contributors: Cliff Albright, Yong Jung Cho, Larry Cohen, Sendolo Diaminah, Neidi Dominguez, David Duhalde, Alicia Garza, Ryan Greenwood, Arisha Michelle Hatch, Jon Liss, Thenjiwe McHarris, Andrea Cristina Mercado, Maurice Mitchell, Rafael Návar, Deepak Pateriya, Ai-jen Poo, W. Mondale Robinson, Art Reyes III, Nsé Ufot, and Mario Yedidia

Unrig the Game: What Women of Color Can Teach Everyone About Winning

📖 Featuring: Vanessa Priya Daniel
🗓️ Date: Friday, July 24th
⏰ Time: 2:00–3:30 PM ET | 1:00–2:30 PM CT | 12:00–1:30 PM MT | 11:00 AM–12:30 PM PT
About the Speaker: Vanessa Priya Daniel is a former community and union organizer who founded one of the largest foundations dedicated to resourcing women of color-led organizing and now authors books on leadership retention.
Session Overview: Drawing on candid interviews with 47 prominent movement leaders, she reveals the persistent obstacles women of color face—from the assumption of incompetence to abandonment when attacked. This talk offers a strategic playbook for allies and organizations to unrig the game and ensure boldness and solidarity are fully leveraged to win battles for freedom, climate action, and human rights.

Practical Radicals: Seven Strategies to Change the World

📖 Featuring: Stephanie Luce
🗓️ Date: Friday, August 28th
⏰ Time: 2:00–3:30 PM ET | 1:00–2:30 PM CT | 12:00–1:30 PM MT | 11:00 AM–12:30 PM PT
About the Speaker: Stephanie Luce is Professor of Labor Studies at the School of Labor and Urban Studies and Professor of Sociology at CUNY's Graduate Center, known for her research on living wage campaigns and movements.
Session Overview: Her latest book, co-authored with Deepak Bhargava, offers winning strategies, history, and theory in the tradition of Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals and Sun Tzu's The Art of War for a new generation of activists. This conversation focuses on applying these seven strategies to contemporary movements and building effective power in challenging political environments.

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