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Mie Inouye is Assistant Professor of Political Studies at Bard College, Curriculum Co-Director of the National Political Education Committee of the Democratic Socialists of America, and Cofounder of Reclaim Rhode Island. A political theorist and organizer, she has also written for Jacobin and The Forge.
Mie Inouye and Daniel Martinez HoSang discuss the challenges of organizing in a society that tears groups apart.
To make change, movements need to build endurance—the capacity to keep people showing up despite their differences.
How a new class of “salts”—radicals who take jobs to help unionization—is boosting the organizing efforts of long-term workers.
To make change, movements need to build endurance—the capacity to keep people showing up despite their differences.
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