Scores of rural organizing groups, many badly under resourced, are working to connect with voters in key battleground states. The Rural Democracy Initiative is at the center of much of this work.

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Rules for Radicals, Saul Alinsky

via US news | The Guardian — A decade ago, I knew nothing about organizing. But ordinary people are essential to fighting the rise of authoritarianism In January of 2017, I sent a tentative email to a few dozen friends and acquaintances who I suspected were also freaked out by the election of Donald Trump, asking if they wanted to join a local chapter of an effort called Indivisible, intended to serve as a grassroots liberal counterweight to the new administration. It was frankly not possible, at that point, to know less ab