Tenant organizing around self-interest is one strategy for multiracial movements in the South that want to resist corporatized housing.
X, Formerly Twitter, Sues Group Calling Out Hate Speech on Platform
Elon Musk’s X Corp, the company operating the platform formerly known as Twitter, is suing the Center for Countering Digital Hate, a nonprofit dedicated to calling out tech companies for allowing hate speech and disinformation.
Building the Mutual Economy: A Conversation with Steve Dubb, Rithika Ramamurthy, and Manuel Pastor
“How do we bring a spirit of mutuality to addressing our planet and our climate? Even when people of goodwill talk about addressing climate change, it’s almost as though the planet is something separate from us. So, how do we take this broader vision of solidarity and talk about solidarity with our planet, as well as solidarity with each other, and forge a more inclusive and sustainable future?”
Why Do Wheelchair Repairs Take So Long?
As wheelchair users wait months for repairs, which can often be costly and are not always covered by insurance, a task force in one state has formed to hold wheelchair manufacturers accountable.
The Great Awakening, and Workers’ Fight to Stay Woke
Workers did their part in lighting the flame, showing us the way by calculating their power based on current conditions, organizing each other as whole people, person by person, and having the audacity to do it in the spirit of building a healthy democracy. For labor officials and nonprofit sector labor supporters, our job now is to keep standing with them.
Building Movement-Accountable Government: A Conversation with Steve Dubb, Rithika Ramamurthy, and Maurice Mitchell
This conversation with Maurice Mitchell, national director of the Working Families Party, and NPQ’s Steve Dubb and Rithika Ramamurthy, explores the connections among politics, economic justice, and social movements—building in part on Maurice Mitchell’s fall 2022 article, “Building Resilient Organizations: Toward Joy and Durable Power in a Time of Crisis.”
How to End Wage Theft—And Advance Immigrant Justice
Each year, US workers are shorted on their wages by over $50 billion. This wage theft must end. In New York, a growing movement is seeking to change this.
Getting Capital to BIPOC Entrepreneurs: Some Pandemic Lessons
How can capital get to BIPOC small businesses that need it? A pandemic-era program involving federally funded revolving loan funds has some lessons to share.
Nonprofit Hospitals Pursue Aggressive Medical Debt Collection
More than one in three Americans is saddled with medical debt—debt that has become big business even for nonprofit hospitals. Increasingly, the nonprofit health sector and the for-profit debt collection industry are working together.
We’re Going on a Summer Break
We’re going on a short summer break—see you in September!
Empty Office Buildings May Have New Lives as Farms
Office buildings in cities remain deserted as many workers continue to stay home. One solution to the empty office space is farming, though urban vertical farms are not without issues.
A Satellite Assist in the Fight Against Air Pollution
As air quality around the United States continues to worsen due to the most severe Canadian wildfire season in history, a new real-time data-collecting tool will be launched into orbit.