What Organizing Looks Like

 I’ve had very White ideas of what it looks like to “successfully” organize for social change. This ideas still infiltrate my thinking. Please read this amazing article about an amazing group right here in my amazing town of Minneapolis. And check out the author’s podcast.


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/25/magazine/black-visions-collective.html?referringSource=articleShare

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