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'''{{PAGENAME}}'''believes structural transformation of our society is crucial. Stronger, more strategic community and labor organizing formations will help undo the damages of neoliberalism and racial capitalism.
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'''{{PAGENAME}}''' believes structural transformation of our society is crucial. Stronger, more strategic community and labor organizing formations will help undo the damages of neoliberalism and racial capitalism.
  
 
:GPP works with organizations, alliances and labor to develop new organizing practices to achieve transformational social change. Through decades of partnership with grassroots groups, we have developed a series of strategic frameworks. These tools support organizations to be more effective and ambitious. They facilitate a shift away from short-term, incremental campaigns and towards building and wielding governing power to achieve economic, racial, gender and environmental justice.<ref>[https://grassrootspowerproject.org/about/our-work/]</ref>  
 
:GPP works with organizations, alliances and labor to develop new organizing practices to achieve transformational social change. Through decades of partnership with grassroots groups, we have developed a series of strategic frameworks. These tools support organizations to be more effective and ambitious. They facilitate a shift away from short-term, incremental campaigns and towards building and wielding governing power to achieve economic, racial, gender and environmental justice.<ref>[https://grassrootspowerproject.org/about/our-work/]</ref>  
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==Socialist core==
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From Executive Summary: [[Liberation Road]]'s 2022-2025 Main Political Report.
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:To address these challenges, [[Liberation Road]] set itself the task across the past three-year period of helping to build a stronger, more coherent socialist “core.” This has not meant consolidating all who self-identify as socialist, nor excluding aligned forces who use other labels. Rather, the task has been to help bring together those advanced forces who are rooted in mass organization, committed to left coordination, and strategically clear on the tasks at hand.
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:Efforts to cohere this core have made some significant advances in terms of strategic alignment, if not yet programmatic and organizational coherence. While no single organization has cohered our inside/outside trend, there is increased alignment among formations like [[Liberation Road]], [[North Star Socialist Organization]] (NSSO), [[Convergence]], [[Rising Majority]], [[Grassroots Power Project]], and the [[Democratic Socialists of America]] (DSA’s) [[Socialist Majority Caucus]] (SMC) and [[Groundwork]].
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:What’s needed now is not just shared vision, but shared practice, structure, and initiative to strengthen our movements’ ability to move from strategic defense to a coordinated counter-offensive. The question is whether we can forge a coherent, self-conscious “bloc” that doesn’t just resist New Confederate autocracy, but builds the power to defeat and unseat the New Confederacy and begin a process of structural transformation—both inside the terrain of the state and across civil society. The Third Reconstruction will not build itself. But it can be built—if we do the work to build it.<ref>[https://liberationroad.substack.com/p/executive-summary-liberation-roads?r=4t4kw&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&fbclid=IwY2xjawK2dUBleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETEyTEhMb1FlZ0Vja0JIOUhxAR6c5U6OzK_wliYkBE2zCkl6_c4ZPP1T4hXLKMUtW8c0CQeByJ0XliZ43ZVzLA_aem_5EPktzdGcIa2kPHKdprd-Q&triedRedirect=true]</ref>
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==Staff, 2023==
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*[[Maria Poblet]] Executive Director
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*[[Harmony Goldberg]] Director of Praxis
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*[[Tammy Bang Luu]] Director of Programs
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*[[Margarita Hernandez]] Labor Director
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*[[Amy Vanderwarker]] Senior Strategist
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*[[Sharon Cromwell]] Senior Strategist
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*[[Dan McGrath]] Senior Strategist
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*[[Priya Johnson]] Strategist
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*[[Hashim Benford]] Strategist
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*[[Lucia Oliva Hennelly]] Strategist
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*[[Claire Tran]] Strategist
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*[[Tyger Caygill-Walsh]] Operations and Finance Manager<ref>[https://grassrootspowerproject.org/our-team/]</ref>
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==Board, 2023==
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*[[Kimberly Freeman Brown]] Board Chair
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*[[Libero Della Piana]] Board Treasurer
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*[[Richard Healey]] Board Member
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*[[Isabel Vinent Grimany]] Board Member
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*[[Milena Velis]] Board Member
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*[[Denise Diaz]] Board Member<ref>[https://grassrootspowerproject.org/our-team/]</ref>
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==Facilitators + Advisors==
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*[[Steve Hughes]] Strategist + Facilitator
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*[[Valery Alzaga]] Strategist + Facilitator
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*[[Raquel Lavina]] Strategist + Facilitator
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*[[Karen Scharff]] Strategist + Facilitator
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*[[Ted Fertik]] Strategist + Facilitator
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*[[Sandra Hinson]] Advisor<ref>[https://grassrootspowerproject.org/our-team/]</ref>
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==Grassroots Power Project history==
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[[Grassroots Power Project]] has supported state-level and national social justice infrastructure for more than 20 years. In 1993, [[Grassroots Policy Project]] started out as a small group of organizers with academic and policy experience who were determined to bridge the divide between progressive think tanks, and policy shops, on the one hand, and grassroots organizers and leaders, on the other.
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As we formed relationships with staff and leaders in statewide, regional and national organizing groups, we evolved into an unusual intermediary. We walk side-by-side with organizers and leaders as they struggle to make shifts in their organizing models, developing deep relationships. 
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In 2019, after several decades under the leadership of [[Richard Healey]] and [[Sandra Hinson]], [[Maria Poblet]] assumed the Executive Director role and GPP transferred our leadership, frameworks, resources and relationships to a new and growing team that is younger, more diverse and women-led. GPP’s new leadership is scaling up our efforts so we can be equal to the work ahead.<ref>[https://grassrootspowerproject.org/about/our-history/]</ref>
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==Teachers==
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We want to name and pay tribute to those who have taught us, and whose ideas we work with and teach. We owe a debt of gratitude to our founders, [[Richard Healey]] and [[Sandra Hinson]], and others who paved the way for us especially [[David Mann]] and [[Alexa Bradley]]. And to many movement intellectuals whose ideas we use in our work every day, including: [[Antonio Gramsci]], [[Stuart Hall]], [[W.E.B. DuBois]], [[Marta Harnecker]], [[Maria Mies]], [[Robin D. G. Kelley]], and [[Nancy Fraser]].<ref>[https://grassrootspowerproject.org/about/our-teachers/]</ref>
  
 
=="The need to fight the Right"==
 
=="The need to fight the Right"==

Latest revision as of 15:16, 11 June 2025

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Grassroots Power Project believes structural transformation of our society is crucial. Stronger, more strategic community and labor organizing formations will help undo the damages of neoliberalism and racial capitalism.

GPP works with organizations, alliances and labor to develop new organizing practices to achieve transformational social change. Through decades of partnership with grassroots groups, we have developed a series of strategic frameworks. These tools support organizations to be more effective and ambitious. They facilitate a shift away from short-term, incremental campaigns and towards building and wielding governing power to achieve economic, racial, gender and environmental justice.[1]

Socialist core

From Executive Summary: Liberation Road's 2022-2025 Main Political Report.

To address these challenges, Liberation Road set itself the task across the past three-year period of helping to build a stronger, more coherent socialist “core.” This has not meant consolidating all who self-identify as socialist, nor excluding aligned forces who use other labels. Rather, the task has been to help bring together those advanced forces who are rooted in mass organization, committed to left coordination, and strategically clear on the tasks at hand.
Efforts to cohere this core have made some significant advances in terms of strategic alignment, if not yet programmatic and organizational coherence. While no single organization has cohered our inside/outside trend, there is increased alignment among formations like Liberation Road, North Star Socialist Organization (NSSO), Convergence, Rising Majority, Grassroots Power Project, and the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA’s) Socialist Majority Caucus (SMC) and Groundwork.
What’s needed now is not just shared vision, but shared practice, structure, and initiative to strengthen our movements’ ability to move from strategic defense to a coordinated counter-offensive. The question is whether we can forge a coherent, self-conscious “bloc” that doesn’t just resist New Confederate autocracy, but builds the power to defeat and unseat the New Confederacy and begin a process of structural transformation—both inside the terrain of the state and across civil society. The Third Reconstruction will not build itself. But it can be built—if we do the work to build it.[2]

Staff, 2023

Board, 2023

Facilitators + Advisors

Grassroots Power Project history

Grassroots Power Project has supported state-level and national social justice infrastructure for more than 20 years. In 1993, Grassroots Policy Project started out as a small group of organizers with academic and policy experience who were determined to bridge the divide between progressive think tanks, and policy shops, on the one hand, and grassroots organizers and leaders, on the other.

As we formed relationships with staff and leaders in statewide, regional and national organizing groups, we evolved into an unusual intermediary. We walk side-by-side with organizers and leaders as they struggle to make shifts in their organizing models, developing deep relationships.

In 2019, after several decades under the leadership of Richard Healey and Sandra Hinson, Maria Poblet assumed the Executive Director role and GPP transferred our leadership, frameworks, resources and relationships to a new and growing team that is younger, more diverse and women-led. GPP’s new leadership is scaling up our efforts so we can be equal to the work ahead.[6]

Teachers

We want to name and pay tribute to those who have taught us, and whose ideas we work with and teach. We owe a debt of gratitude to our founders, Richard Healey and Sandra Hinson, and others who paved the way for us especially David Mann and Alexa Bradley. And to many movement intellectuals whose ideas we use in our work every day, including: Antonio Gramsci, Stuart Hall, W.E.B. DuBois, Marta Harnecker, Maria Mies, Robin D. G. Kelley, and Nancy Fraser.[7]

"The need to fight the Right"

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Convergence Magazine. March 9, 2023.

How do our organizations navigate the dual tasks of building power to make long-term gains for our communities and working in a broad front to defeat MAGA in 2024 and beyond? Our panelists will dig into their deep and varied experience to suggest ways we can build real-world coordination among Left and progressive groups—and how we might work productively with more centrist forces who may only agree with us on one thing: the need to fight the Right.

Panelists:

Co-Hosts:

References

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