Piece by Piece Strategies

Building power requires a strategy, focused work, and time. To build a sufficient level of organization and power to meaningful reverse the trend right in politics will take time and intention. #TuesdayTips #power #organization #impact #socialjustice

There are many people newly looking to contribute to base building and other organizing work in the wake of the election. Find ways to reach them and get them plugged in. #TuesdayTips #outreach #building #justice #impact

One of the best uses of time as we make sense of the election results and the dramatically changed political climate to come is to prepare your base and build out your alliances to get positioned to mobilize defense come January. #TuesdayTips #justice #action #socialjustice #movementbuilding

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No matter the outcome of the election, the many struggles our communities are engaged in will continue. Our tasks to build organization and move people to take collective action will remain the same. As we're engaging scores of unorganized community members this election season, having plans to try and pull some of them into this work beyond the election will be key. #TuesdayTips #socialjustice #socialimpact #impact #organization

There are no shortcuts - engaging your base in a process to more thoroughly understand conditions and issues that people want to fight around is crucial, rather than assuming you know what things are most important to the community. #TuesdayTips #leadership #impact #socialimpact #socialjustice

With climate disasters impacting various parts of the South, there are many important mutual aid and other efforts to respond to the many urgent and immediate needs of communities impacted. In the long run, finding opportunities and ways to bridge this work with the development of broader campaigns that raise progressive demands on the state will be important for building organization, power, and consciousness out of the current moment. #TuesdayTips #justice #impact #socialjustice #socialimpact

In the last few weeks alone, we've seen stark and devastating examples of how wide-ranging the impacts of the growing climate crisis are and will continue to be. Find ways to make connections in your existing work to the impacts of a warming climate, along with the ways all of our fights are connected. #TuesdayTips #impact #socialimpact #justice #socialjustice

So many of us are going as hard as we can to defeat the far right and create conditions more favorable to our movement work through the upcoming elections. But in the midst of this critical work, we should also be preparing for any possible outcome and thinking about how we will continue our work in any environment that emerges post-November. #TuesdayTips #impact #socialimpact #socialjustice #movement

Particularly now, the opportunities to respond to real-time developments in such a way that draws out a broader understanding of power and a critique of the system are plentiful. Our movement organizations should find ways to respond to such opportunities to advance a broader political consciousness. #TuesdayTips #socialimpact #impact #socialjustice #education