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💸 EPISODE 271! 💸

In today’s episode, we discuss the piece “How Our Money Feeds Corporate Power”, featuring a conversation between Emanuel Nieves (Liberation in a Generation), Sue Holmberg (Institute for Local Self-Reliance), and Lenore Palladino (University of Massachusetts Amherst) in @forgeorganizing (in collaboration with @libgen_econ), which explores and analyzes the ways in which our individual, collective, and government monies are contributing to the strength and impact of corporate power and the oppression economy across the country, and what we learn and take away from this incredible piece and conversation in our continued learning and unlearning work and fight for collective liberation. (This is our fifth episode this year discussing The Forge’s Corporate Power series. Check out our other episodes wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts.) Want to join the convo? Check out the link to the piece in our bio. Listen to this episode now wherever you podcast! New episode announcement image for the Interdependent Study podcast featuring a gray background with black marks and stylized image renderings of the cohosts in each bottom corner of the image with episode title Local Money Feeding Corporate Power in yellow text by @forgeorganizing

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Baltimore: we’ll be in your city at the end of the month! Come to our Organizer Happy Hour with @forgeorganizing, @truthout, and more folx with the Movement Media Alliance 🔗 link in bio to rsvp

@redemmas is hosting us with drinks and an opportunity to learn more about The Forge and connect with other organizers and writers!

⏰ 6:30PM-8:30PM
🗓️ Wednesday, 10/28
📍3128 Greenmount Ave, Baltimore 21218 taken in Baltimore, Maryland by @forgeorganizing

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11 days ago

Revisiting our 250th anniversary of the U.S. collab issue with @blis_collective & @forgeorganizing

Rather than accept the dominant narratives about the past and future of the United States, we’re inviting readers to imagine a country grounded in collective liberation, for a future that could, indeed, be otherwise.

🔗read the full issue at our link in bio by @forgeorganizing

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14 days ago

Catch up on our full Because We Need Each Other collaborative series with @_convergencemag

🔗Link in bio by @forgeorganizing

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24 days ago

NEW RELEASE: read the latest from our Because We Need Each Other series in collaboration with @_convergencemag

✍️Kazu Haga
🔗link in bio by @forgeorganizing

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Cesar Chavez’s sexual assaults were horrific. Sexism in organizing persists and requires the attention of leaders.

✍️ by Dahlia Goldenberg
🔗 link in bio for full article by @forgeorganizing

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The worker-owned firm can demonstrate that “high road” labor practices are possible. The high-road firm will however exist in constant tension, internally and externally, as it attempts to compete in a market dominated by low-road firms.

✍️ by Erik Forman
🔗 link in bio for full article by @forgeorganizing

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Part 3 of the Wilmington Coup series: Invisible Power, Exploited Disinformation: The Architecture of Manufactured Consent, explores the psychological terrain.

✍️ by Rachel Branaman
🔗 link in bio for full article by @forgeorganizing

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US funders have demanded that grantees retract statements supporting Palestine, delete social posts, and “stay in their lanes.”
This is philanthropic power being used to silence solidarity.

In today’s #WhatToReadToday, Andrea Lynch and Farhad Ebrahimi argue that Palestine reveals how funding silos can control which injustices movements may name—and punish them for recognizing how their struggles connect.

People do not lead single-issue lives. Philanthropy cannot support collective liberation while forcing movements into artificial divisions.

Drawing on Funders4Palestine’s Raise the Bar tool, they show how people inside philanthropy can identify who controls decisions, organize colleagues and boards, and share risk with grantees.

For funders, solidarity requires more than statements of support. It requires sharing risk, sustaining funding, and following community leadership.

✍🏽: Andrea Lynch of Funders4Palestine and Farhad Ebrahimi of Solidaire Network
🤝 Co-published with The Forge
🔗: Link in bio and comments

#WhatToReadToday #Philanthropy #Palestine by @forgeorganizing

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What happens to progressive philanthropy in times of accelerated imperialism, fascism, and genocide?

✍️ by Andrea Lynch and Farhad Ebrahimi
🔗 link in bio to read more by @forgeorganizing

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🔗 EPISODE 266! 🔗

In today’s episode, we discuss the piece “Lessons From Fights For Public Control of Banking and Broadband Infrastructure”, featuring a conversation between Adem Sengal, Trinity Tran, and Sean Gonsalves in @forgeorganizing (in collaboration with @libgen_econ), which explores and analyzes the fight against corporate power in the context of the organizing and advocacy work for public banking and public broadband infrastructure and access in communities across the country, and what we learn and take away from this incredible piece and conversation in our continued learning and unlearning work and fight for collective liberation. Want to join the convo? Check out the link to the piece in our bio. Listen to this episode now wherever you podcast! (This is our fourth episode this year discussing The Forge’s Corporate Power series. Check out our other episodes wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts.) New episode announcement image for the Interdependent Study podcast featuring a gray background with black marks and stylized image renderings of the cohosts in each bottom corner of the image with episode title Banking and Broadband for the People in yellow text by @forgeorganizing

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Before an armed mob overthrew the elected government in Wilmington in 1898, a media machine spent months manufacturing public consent. 📰⚡️

They used invisible power to manipulate media, stoke racial fear, and shift public consciousness so ordinary citizens would cheer for the destruction of their own democratic safeguards.

Fast forward to today: the ink-stained printing presses have evolved into algorithmic echo chambers, but the core playbook remains unchanged.

In Part 3 of my latest series for @ForgeOrganizing, "Invisible Power, Exploited Disinformation: The Architecture of Manufactured Consent," I dive into:
👉 How historical media campaigns laid the groundwork for violent coups and historical revisionism.
👉 How modern digital disinformation ecosystems use fear and cultural scapegoating to shatter multiracial solidarity.
👉 Why we must build cognitive immunity, reframe narrative traps, and deploy intersectional futurism to protect our collective future.

We cannot win lasting structural change if we allow the opposition to dictate what the public believes to be true, normal, or dangerous.

🔗 Link in bio to read the full article! by @forgeorganizing

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