Two more frustrating vetoes from Governor Janet Mills today. LD 373, my bill, would have promoted labor agreements at clean energy facilities, creating good jobs in a new industry. LD 1231 would have cut taxes for middle class Mainers by partially restoring a tax on the very wealthy.

Amazing new report on automatic stabilizers from Darrick Hamilton, Naomi Zewde ናሆሜ ዘውዴ, and Chris Hughes. Their proposal complements UI, but is simpler + more effective. General fund transfers since 1970s to UI are small + clumsy. Let's do the real thing!

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I'm excited to moderate this debate! 'LDSJ Debate Series: The Four-Day Workweek' eventbrite.com/e/ldsj-debate-… @Eventbrite

On this week’s podcast, we discuss the collapse of a Aroostook County daycare center that will leave 100 kids without care, as well as the implications of an educator hiring crunch and the way Maine pays for public education. #mepolitics mainebeacon.com/podcast-sudden…

How activist and non-profit culture prevent good organizing + what we can do about it.

Co-authored by Jesse Graham, Amy Halsted, and me. Responding to Maurice Moe Mitchell 🐺's piece on conflict within progressive organizations.

The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice
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Resilience in organizations is about challenging traditional activist and non-profit paradigms with humble, disciplined, and compassionate leadership. Read Amy Halsted, Ben Chin, and Jesse Graham's thoughtful piece on what it takes to lead the way.

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Building on Maurice Moe Mitchell 🐺’s Building Resilient Organizations, three organizers discuss practical ways to deal with the challenges of non-profit culture. Jesse Graham, Amy Halsted, and Ben Chin in our latest:

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🔥”Imagine how many total paid staff of progressive organizations there are in the U.S. Surely it’s thousands. Now, estimate what percent of them spent all their paid hours today talking only to other paid staff of nonprofits, and none with their base.” forgeorganizing.org/article/sacred…

I also love every single person on here and would read any transcript of any conversation they ever have.

This is 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Most important article of 2022. It's raises all the important issues in that Intercept article, but is not weirdly anti-worker/ young people. I'm going to use the phrases 'maximalist,' 'glass houses,' and 'neoliberal identity politics' a lot more! :-)

On this week's podcast, Beacon hosts dig into election-eve campaign spending and discuss about efforts to tackle Maine’s affordable housing crisis (spoiler: some landlords aren't having it!) #mepolitics mainebeacon.com/podcast-theres…

.Ben Chin interviewed for Beacon on my chapter in Power Concedes Nothing on DSA and the 2020 election.

Fun tidbits about what Bowdoin College YDS(A) was up in the early 2000s including fighting an anti-LGBTQ referendum and anti-Walmart activism. mainebeacon.com/podcast-a-conv…

Nothing better than an article about sex worker grandmas and organizing!

Even as the repeal of Roe marked the triumph of 90s white evangelicalism, its political power may be collapsing.

How do we build organizations and movements capable of both short-term victories and large-scale system change? Ben Chin of Maine People's Alliance reviews the book 'Power Concedes Nothing: How Grassroots Organizing Wins Elections,' in The Forge: Organizing Strategy and Practice.

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What does 'grassroots' really mean?

Ben Chin reviews Power Concedes Nothing

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Why I think everyone should read POWER CONCEDES NOTHING, by max elbaum, maria poblet, Nse Ufot, Art Reyes III, Jon Liss, Andrea Mercado, Jacob Swenson-Lengyel, Ai-jen Poo, @alex_han, David S. Duhalde, Maurice Moe Mitchell 🐺, Ryan Greenwood, Deepak Pateriya, Alicia Garza.

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Inaccurate headline. These data (CDC WONDER) average many years into one figure, including peak pandemic w/o vaccines. Irresponsible journalism. People will think this about BA5. It isn't. #mepolitics
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How can organizations of poor and working people build countervailing power against large institutions?

Don't miss the first article in our new series w/
The American Prospect exploring how organizers can use public policy to build mass membership organizations forgeorganizing.org/article/laws-c…