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JOB OPENING: CO-DIRECTOR

Posted July 10, 2023

Center for Political Education seeks a co-director to lead our political education work and manage the day-to-day operations of the organization.…

Key Lessons for Building Power during the Elections

Posted October 28, 2020

With the last days of the elections upon us, leftists and progressives have been getting ourselves ready for the immediate task ahead: defeating white-supremacist authoritarianism while strengthening our own forces.…

Tags: 2020 elections, movement-building

Why I’ll Be Tuning into the Black National Convention

Posted August 28, 2020

I’ll be tuning into the Black National Convention (BNC) today (8.28.20). There has been lots of talk lately about Black people—assumptions about how and if we’ll vote, reports about the differential impacts of the pandemic on our health, assertions about the meanings of this summer’s uprisings and judgements about the tactics, demands, and messages advanced through those rebellions.…

Tags: Black Liberation, Black National Convention, elections, M4BL

Political Education in a Time of Rebellion

Posted June 3, 2020

As thousands of people across the world protest in the wake of George Floyd’s murder by Minneapolis cops, it’s clear that we need the both the expressions of rage and frustration, and solidarity and care that have been communicated by the uprisings.…

Turning My World Upside Down

Posted December 19, 2019

Since I began interning with the Center for Political Education 3 months ago, the world as I know it has turned upside-down.…

Tags: interns