Kelly Hayes writes about things you should know if you want to change the world.| Organizing My Thoughts
"There are living, breathing people all around you who need your sense of decency to be made material. Don’t give up on them, or on you."| Organizing My Thoughts
“We're going to need a lot more in-person opportunities for us to expand our humanity,” says organizer Mariame Kaba.| Organizing My Thoughts
Before long, there were dozens, and then hundreds of people in the streets, watching and responding.| Organizing My Thoughts
“It’s meant to exhaust us. It’s meant to destroy us."| Organizing My Thoughts
"Chicagoans will not be a conquered people."| Organizing My Thoughts
“There is no neutral ground in this moment. You’re either resisting or you’re complicit,” says Eman Abdelhadi.| Organizing My Thoughts
"Being out here to demand what is right is the only way to stay human," says Jessica Darrow.| Organizing My Thoughts
We can embody our refusal and fiercely declare that our love and empathy will not be destroyed.| Organizing My Thoughts
“History shows us that repression always breeds resistance,” says Chicago organizer Miguel Alvelo Rivera.| Organizing My Thoughts
"It is unconscionable that trans people are being targeted for their irreverent responses to the death of a man who actively called for violence against the trans community."| Organizing My Thoughts
"There is no honor in this mission," says counter-recruiter Rory Fanning.| Organizing My Thoughts
"It is up to us, as everyday people, to decide who we are, and who we are to each other, in the face of these attacks."| Organizing My Thoughts
“There’s no rule of law that’s going to get us out of where we are,” says Andrea Ritchie.| Organizing My Thoughts
"Will we all be sitting ducks, siloed behind our screens?"| Organizing My Thoughts
This worksheet can help us prepare for Trump's military interventions at the neighborhood level.| Organizing My Thoughts
"Fostering dependence is a normal business practice in Silicon Valley."| Organizing My Thoughts
Assemblies are “a unique opportunity for people to build a democracy that has yet to be born,” says Denzel Caldwell.| Organizing My Thoughts
To wave off every horror as a distraction is to participate in the very obfuscation that protects the powerful.| Organizing My Thoughts
"In dark times, people have always found ways to make their own light. That work is now upon us."| Organizing My Thoughts
"The Trump administration has essentially been forced to take a partial retreat on Musk as a figure because he's too toxic," says Eric Blanc.| Organizing My Thoughts
“Now is the time to be bold and audacious,” says community safety organizer Che Johnson-Long.| Organizing My Thoughts
What does it look like to emerge from this moment?| Organizing My Thoughts
Kindness is essential in these times, and it will continue to be.| Organizing My Thoughts
How powerful will we choose to become as the world falls down and what will we have the potential to build?| Organizing My Thoughts