Power Working Group
This project emerged from a joint project of The Action Lab and The Forge, to engage a group of experienced leaders of base-building organizations across the country (the Power Working Group or PWG)to contribute to evolving the social justice field’s capacity to realize our boldest ambitions. Though our organizations and movements have won important victories, we have not yet figured out how to build people power at the scale and depth necessary to realize our vision for a just society.
The PWG has met regularly since mid-2022 and has engaged a broad group of over 300 experienced organizers and social justice leaders across the country to grapple with the challenges confronting our movement, our democracy, and our organizations. Through in-depth interviews and numerous surveys with practitioners, we have captured what our movement is thinking about the Left and our power — and the role of our organizations in building power to win. In Spring 2024, we will publish major findings from this large scale project and share many promising interventions to evolve the practice and field of organizing. We will also organize various field conversations with The Forge and others to spark innovations to meet the various challenges identified in our extensive research.
Highlights
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Change the photo. Blocks should alternate between left side and right side photos.
Need more highlight boxes?
- In Designer mode, click the components menu on the left (the small cube icon).
- From the list of components, select the highlight box you need (image left, image right, or no image).
- Drag it on to the page where you want it. It should be inside the "highlights-wrapper" element that contains the rest of the highlight boxes. It should NOT be inside another highlight box. Check the navigator to drag it to the correct place.
- Right click on the box and click UNLINK INSTANCE
Want to get rid of a highlight box? Click anywhere on the box, then arrow-up or use the navigator to select its outermost layer: "HIGHLIGHT-BOX". Either...
- Delete it, or
- In the style panel on the right, click into the style selector field that currently says "highlight-box". Next to the highlight-box tag, type "hide" and press enter. This will hide it from view. In the future, to add it back, find the hidden item in the navigator and delete the word hide!
Header - H3
Highlight content goes here.
This is a rich text block so you can use text formatting, bullet points, inline links, etc.
Change the photo. Blocks should alternate between left side and right side photos.
Need more highlight boxes?
- In Designer mode, click the components menu on the left (the small cube icon).
- From the list of components, select the highlight box you need (image left, image right, or no image).
- Drag it on to the page where you want it. It should be inside the "highlights-wrapper" element that contains the rest of the highlight boxes. It should NOT be inside another highlight box. Check the navigator to drag it to the correct place.
- Right click on the box and click UNLINK INSTANCE
Want to get rid of a highlight box? Click anywhere on the box, then arrow-up or use the navigator to select its outermost layer: "HIGHLIGHT-BOX". Either...
- Delete it, or
- In the style panel on the right, click into the style selector field that currently says "highlight-box". Next to the highlight-box tag, type "hide" and press enter. This will hide it from view. In the future, to add it back, find the hidden item in the navigator and delete the word hide!
Header - H3
Highlight content goes here.
This is a rich text block so you can use text formatting, bullet points, inline links, etc.
Change the photo. Blocks should alternate between left side and right side photos.
Need more highlight boxes?
- In Designer mode, click the components menu on the left (the small cube icon).
- From the list of components, select the highlight box you need (image left, image right, or no image).
- Drag it on to the page where you want it. It should be inside the "highlights-wrapper" element that contains the rest of the highlight boxes. It should NOT be inside another highlight box. Check the navigator to drag it to the correct place.
- Right click on the box and click UNLINK INSTANCE
Want to get rid of a highlight box? Click anywhere on the box, then arrow-up or use the navigator to select its outermost layer: "HIGHLIGHT-BOX". Either...
- Delete it, or
- In the style panel on the right, click into the style selector field that currently says "highlight-box". Next to the highlight-box tag, type "hide" and press enter. This will hide it from view. In the future, to add it back, find the hidden item in the navigator and delete the word hide!
Header - H3
Highlight content goes here.
This is a rich text block so you can use text formatting, bullet points, inline links, etc.
Change the photo. Blocks should alternate between left side and right side photos.
Need more highlight boxes?
- In Designer mode, click the components menu on the left (the small cube icon).
- From the list of components, select the highlight box you need (image left, image right, or no image).
- Drag it on to the page where you want it. It should be inside the "highlights-wrapper" element that contains the rest of the highlight boxes. It should NOT be inside another highlight box. Check the navigator to drag it to the correct place.
- Right click on the box and click UNLINK INSTANCE
Want to get rid of a highlight box? Click anywhere on the box, then arrow-up or use the navigator to select its outermost layer: "HIGHLIGHT-BOX". Either...
- Delete it, or
- In the style panel on the right, click into the style selector field that currently says "highlight-box". Next to the highlight-box tag, type "hide" and press enter. This will hide it from view. In the future, to add it back, find the hidden item in the navigator and delete the word hide!
Header - H3
Highlight content goes here.
This is a rich text block so you can use text formatting, bullet points, inline links, etc.
Change the photo. Blocks should alternate between left side and right side photos.
Need more highlight boxes?
- In Designer mode, click the components menu on the left (the small cube icon).
- From the list of components, select the highlight box you need (image left, image right, or no image).
- Drag it on to the page where you want it. It should be inside the "highlights-wrapper" element that contains the rest of the highlight boxes. It should NOT be inside another highlight box. Check the navigator to drag it to the correct place.
- Right click on the box and click UNLINK INSTANCE
Want to get rid of a highlight box? Click anywhere on the box, then arrow-up or use the navigator to select its outermost layer: "HIGHLIGHT-BOX". Either...
- Delete it, or
- In the style panel on the right, click into the style selector field that currently says "highlight-box". Next to the highlight-box tag, type "hide" and press enter. This will hide it from view. In the future, to add it back, find the hidden item in the navigator and delete the word hide!
Header - H3
Highlight content goes here.
This is a rich text block so you can use text formatting, bullet points, inline links, etc.
Change the photo. Blocks should alternate between left side and right side photos.
Need more highlight boxes?
- In Designer mode, click the components menu on the left (the small cube icon).
- From the list of components, select the highlight box you need (image left, image right, or no image).
- Drag it on to the page where you want it. It should be inside the "highlights-wrapper" element that contains the rest of the highlight boxes. It should NOT be inside another highlight box. Check the navigator to drag it to the correct place.
- Right click on the box and click UNLINK INSTANCE
Want to get rid of a highlight box? Click anywhere on the box, then arrow-up or use the navigator to select its outermost layer: "HIGHLIGHT-BOX". Either...
- Delete it, or
- In the style panel on the right, click into the style selector field that currently says "highlight-box". Next to the highlight-box tag, type "hide" and press enter. This will hide it from view. In the future, to add it back, find the hidden item in the navigator and delete the word hide!
Header - H3
Highlight content goes here.
This is a rich text block so you can use text formatting, bullet points, inline links, etc.
Change the photo. Blocks should alternate between left side and right side photos.
Need more highlight boxes?
- In Designer mode, click the components menu on the left (the small cube icon).
- From the list of components, select the highlight box you need (image left, image right, or no image).
- Drag it on to the page where you want it. It should be inside the "highlights-wrapper" element that contains the rest of the highlight boxes. It should NOT be inside another highlight box. Check the navigator to drag it to the correct place.
- Right click on the box and click UNLINK INSTANCE
Want to get rid of a highlight box? Click anywhere on the box, then arrow-up or use the navigator to select its outermost layer: "HIGHLIGHT-BOX". Either...
- Delete it, or
- In the style panel on the right, click into the style selector field that currently says "highlight-box". Next to the highlight-box tag, type "hide" and press enter. This will hide it from view. In the future, to add it back, find the hidden item in the navigator and delete the word hide!
Header - H3 - Rare no-photo box
Highlight content goes here.
This is a rich text block so you can use text formatting, bullet points, inline links, etc.
Change the photo. Blocks should alternate between left side and right side photos.
Need more highlight boxes?
- In Designer mode, click the components menu on the left (the small cube icon).
- From the list of components, select the highlight box you need (image left, image right, or no image).
- Drag it on to the page where you want it. It should be inside the "highlights-wrapper" element that contains the rest of the highlight boxes. It should NOT be inside another highlight box. Check the navigator to drag it to the correct place.
- Right click on the box and click UNLINK INSTANCE
Want to get rid of a highlight box? Click anywhere on the box, then arrow-up or use the navigator to select its outermost layer: "HIGHLIGHT-BOX". Either...
- Delete it, or
- In the style panel on the right, click into the style selector field that currently says "highlight-box". Next to the highlight-box tag, type "hide" and press enter. This will hide it from view. In the future, to add it back, find the hidden item in the navigator and delete the word hide!
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