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Dear RG Community,
What is your recipe for challenging cynicism when it creeps in? I often follow this simple process:
Step 1: I find stories of people taking collective action in the face of immeasurable odds ( Like this incredible Margaret Killjoy piece on Gay Resistance to Nazis [[link removed]] or this breakdown of Bargaining for the Common Good from Practical Radicals [[link removed]] , Tactical Disobedience with Daniel Hunter from How to Survive the End of the World [[link removed]] , or this invocation [[link removed]] from Miss Major Griffen-Gracey, trans Elder and Stonewall leader) and feed them like kindling onto the embers of commitment. I spend time reflecting on my promises to myself and the world: to take risks that have collective reward, to play my small part in the big wins, to act from a place of fierce love. To take part in something bigger than myself.
Step 2: Find people with whom I can talk and plan: identify where I have power and conspire with others to use it on the side of the majority. I plug myself into the humming web of the social movement ecosystem and start looking for places to be useful. As a young person with access to wealth that answer is almost always “move money,” but connecting to the web shows me “how and to where” and the other resources (connections, local campaigns, relationships, time) that I can leverage. While step one can be done solo-dolo, step two requires a crew.
We want to do a version of this with you next week, March 6th from 4-5:30 ET/ 1-2:30 PT when we gather for a storytelling event titled “Political Repression and Donor Courage.” We are not facing the risks to life and limb in the stories I outlined above, but we still need to be together to realistically assess the risks and encourage each other towards action. We’re going to hear from donors who have faced backlash in the press for their Palestine Funding, fired their unaligned financial advisors, committed to stretch their giving in the Trump Administration and navigated thorny family organizing in the past 8 weeks. We’ll give concrete recommendations about how to move money outside of c3s and what to do with your DAF this year. Then we’re going to have a chance to talk to each other, and make a commitment to stay in it together.
Political Repression and Donor Courage
Thursday, March 6⋅4-5:30 ET/ 1:00 – 2:30pm PT
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Why? Endemic cynicism is not something any of us can afford at the moment– without courage and action from all of us we risk facing a reality where our ability to fight back and work for change is severely diminished. Although many of us have access to wealth, hope and determination are actually the resources that may be scarce for us right now, and we renew them by gathering and telling stories . This prescient piece from Scot Nakagawa [[link removed]] outlines what we’re up against:
This is a heist. It’s a political coup wrapped in the language of efficiency and innovation—but it’s really about creating a system where Musk, Trump, and their billionaire class own everything, and the rest of us lose our rights, our economic security, and our ability to fight back.
So what are we going to do about it? Start with Step 1.
In It Together,
Nora Leccese, RG Campaign Director
P.S. There is a secret step 3 to fighting cynicism- if I have my redistribution plan tuned up, and I found my organizing community, then I start thinking about what skills I need to build to ready myself for the fight. If you’re on step three, I really suggest you sign up for Organizer Praxis [[link removed]] with RG where you’ll get training on strategy, recruitment, fundraising and the other bundle of skills you’ll need in the coming months and years.
CHAPTER UPDATES
Kickoff pyramid: Organizing Table member Lynn flexes her circus skills by organizing a human pyramid, with Lior on the summit! [[link removed]] RG-Michigan
tinyurl.com/solidarityeconomy [tinyurl.com/solidarityeconomy] Michigan chapter hosted our annual kickoff on January 25th in Ann Arbor and a makeup virtual kickoff February 17th. Across both events 22 RGers came together, the largest kickoff group we’ve had in chapter history and nearly double last year’s attendance! At the retreats we celebrated 2024 highlights, discussed 2025 plans, and unveiled our new chapter charter and team organization that have both been in the works for months. We also got chapter members excited about our partnership this year with the Rent is Too Damn High Coalition – a $35,000 fundraising campaign to support a Detroit tenant organizer.
Michigan chapter members are also hard at work preparing the Building Our Solidarity Economy Conference at the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor (where around half of the undergrads are RG constituents) on March 28th. We are co-hosting this event alongside the Ginsberg Center at UM and over a dozen university & community groups. This is one of the biggest undertakings our chapter has engaged in to date and has helped us make significant inroads into campus basebuilding and strengthen relationships with local orgs engaged in the solidarity economy. And - you’re invited! A detailed list of the workshops and partners can be found at the registration link.
RG-Philly
RG Philly and our partners at the Poor People’s Army (PPA) spent 2024 laying the groundwork for something big: a new community center in the neighborhood of Kensington! The Cheri Honkala Community Center, owned and operated by the PPA, will serve as an important gathering space in a time where public spaces are increasingly privatized and over policed. The building will also provide a variety of free programming and serve as a home base for the PPA’s projects of survival and other important work.
We couldn’t be more excited to be shifting from planning to creating, or to be bringing more folks into the project. Right now, you can help by moving money! RG Philly’s active membership was able to raise $125,000 to get this project off the ground, but we’re not stopping there. Contribute today to make sure PPA can cover ongoing mortgage/utility payments and can outfit their new space to meet community needs. You can learn more about the campaign here. [[link removed]]
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