Organizing Starter Pack
A bunch of people who are organizers in various orgs, movements, and causes, paid or volunteer. Also social scientists who study organizing and community building. And a couple of independent publishing houses and media outlets.
Created by
@clementpetitj.bsky.social
@milesklassin.bsky.social
Senior Editor at In These Times. Words at Jacobin, Guardian, The Nation. Also @milesklassin
@lpchavez.bsky.social
Columbia University, Phi Beta Kappa;University of Chicago, MA, PhD Political Science Candidate; Ford Foundation Fellow; Fight for 15 Spokesperson; AFSCME; Workers United;Wonk; Mom; Community Leader.
@mancelovici.bsky.social
- Prof. | Directeur du Département de sociologie @sociologieuqam.bsky.social - Social Movements | Housing Struggles in Barcelona, Montreal, NYC, and Santiago de Chile - Posts in English, français, y español - Web: https://uqam.academia.edu/MarcosAncelovici
@ruthygourevitch.bsky.social
tenant and climate research and such with @cplusc.bsky.social
@hammerandhope.bsky.social
"I'm so grateful Hammer and Hope exists. True Black leftist literary dispatches." - dream hampton. Free to read. Help sustain our work and become a member. 🙏🏽 https://linktr.ee/hammerandhope
@collinrees.bsky.social
Campaigning for human rights + climate justice. Mischief w/ @oilchange.bsky.social + @oilchangeus.bsky.social, SustainUS, @demsocialists.bsky.social. Working for a better world 🍉🍉
@bdlimm.bsky.social
Interested in base-building and party-building. Dedicated member of NY WFP and NYC-DSA. Partner to one, sibling to three, comrade to many. @workingfamilies.org | @nywfp.bsky.social @socialists.nyc | @socialistmajority.com 📍Jamaica, Queens NYC
@pilsencommbooks.bsky.social
Established 2016, worker owned and operated since 2020. Always Carry A Book
@corinneblalock.bsky.social
Executive Director of @lpeproject.bsky.social | lecturer in all the senses at YLS | also @lpenyc.bsky.social | JD, PhD | opinions are mine alone
@lpeproject.bsky.social
Legal scholars, students, & practitioners working to expose & transform law's role in the perpetuation of economic, racial, & gender inequality. & @LPEblog
@flyingwithsara.bsky.social
Union Flight Attendant since 1996 and president of the Flight Attendant Union, AFA-CWA, 55k at 20 airlines. (she/her)
@organizeworkers.bsky.social
Supporting all workers in any workplace. You deserve a union. Free resources & trainings on how to organize and start a union @ workerorganizing.org
@sarahljaffe.bsky.social
Troublemaker. Vagrant. Author of From the Ashes, Work Won't Love You Back and Necessary Trouble.
@jmijin.bsky.social
Assist prof, env studies; Fellow, Climate Jobs Institute and @cplusc.bsky.social; Board, Greenpeace Fund; just transition; labor/climate. #COYS 🇰🇷🇺🇸 📚: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262550796/a-just-transition-for-all/ https://mijincha.com
@emanabdelhadi.bsky.social
Assistant Prof at UChicago | Sociologist | Columnist @Inthesetimesmag.bsky.social | Co-author of revolutionary sci-fi novel: Everything for Everyone | Subject of documentary film "Coming Around"
@triofrancos.bsky.social
Political Scientist, Providence College Strategic Co-Director, Climate and Community Institute Author / Resource Radicals (Duke UP 2020) Co-Author / A Planet to Win (Verso 2019) Forthcoming / Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism (WW Norton)
@hamiltonnolan.bsky.social
Read me: HamiltonNolan.com My book: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/hamilton-nolan/the-hammer/9780306830921/
@banditelli.org
Professional labor photographer. Unions for all. Birds. Whales. Cats. Hydration. Maybe a dash of democratic socialism. Not necessarily in that order. Too much optimism for the current moment. Cute content skeeted often, not with the news cycle
@jecboyle.bsky.social
He/Him; Fenian Bastard; Area Code 1312 I speak here only for myself. Any affiliates are blameless. “If someone only looks at you to find a flaw, you're under no obligation to afford them a view.”
@tevitauhatafe.bsky.social
Family man We/Us | Tongan 🇹🇴 | American Labor Movement’s resident Hellraiser | Rank & File Unionist | Tarrant County Labor Council AFL-CIO 1st VP | Opinions mine https://linktr.ee/tevitauhatafe https://therealnews.com/meet-the-tongan-american-unionist-on
@vashetc.bsky.social
ph.d. perpetually horizontal. writer, researcher. ✍🏽 v ash e t c [dot] com — vashetc.com profile ID: brown person poses in wheelchair in front of a wall of pink paperflowers. banner: lake & mntn @ sunset. There’s a silhouette of a family in the water
@bonniejin.bsky.social
💪: gen z union girlie 🌳: cambridge ma • sidewalk socialist • she/她 ✍️: writing, designing, reading, walking 🎓: jhu • anthro 🍉
@peggykern.bsky.social
YA author (Bluford High Series, HarperCollins), court watcher. My books are banned in Florida,Texas and Tennessee.
@jonathansmucker.bsky.social
Political organizer, campaigner, strategist, writer, sociologist Co-founder: Popular Comms, Beyond the Choir, Lancaster Stands Up, PA Stands Up, Mennonite Action Member: UAW Local 4811, DSA Author of https://hegemonyhowto.org/
@dr-b-pearl.bsky.social
Unapologetic & Unafraid. For the love ❤️🖤💚. Free us all. Auntie | Godmom | Homie | Sis Abolitionist Organizer, Co-Founder @TriadAbolitionProject.org Sociologist, Co-Founder @cclwfu.org Truffle Fry Connoisseur BrittanyPBattle.com
@unionizeeverything.bsky.social
Local 89 Teamster from Louisville, Kentucky. TDU member. Dispatcher. If you want to unionize your workplace, reach out to me.
@sabina.kneisly.org
Activist: Queer Nation, ACT-UP, WHAM, BARF, clinic escort, Feminist. Queer Femme, Bastard/adult adoptee, T2D, Covid infuriated, masking. Spent the last couple decades researching wingnuts. A cranky Cassandra at times https://linktr.ee/laurensabinakneisly
@micahh.bsky.social
law student. "subject is a support of defend the forest according to his twitter" 𝘕𝘰 𝘊𝘰𝘱 𝘊𝘪𝘵𝘺, 𝘕𝘰 𝘊𝘰𝘱 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 in 2025 (Haymarket) - bit.ly/4cMtg7q micahherskind.com for abolition resource guide
@dizzyzaba.bsky.social
organizer; writer; technology fellow at ford foundation. labor movement forever
@amityf.bsky.social
She/her. public transit user, cat lover, ISAIAH/FiMN Data. "Intimidating", according to men. amityf elsewhere How to join Minneapolis and St. Paul thread: https://bsky.app/profile/amityf.bsky.social/post/3l3frqadlo32h
@williamlawrence.bsky.social
Tenant organizer with MI Rent Is Too Damn High 🔴 Co-founder Sunrise Movement 🌅 Host Hegemonicon Podcast at Convergence Magazine🪢Lansing, Michigan
@jphillll.bsky.social
Earthseed | Abolition | Anti-capitalism Read my writing, if you want 👇🏻 www.jphilll.com
@shaygabriel.bsky.social
“The needy shall not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the poor perish forever.” NYC ➡️ Berlin. Climate organizer/campaigner. Kita dad. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈✝️
@fernandotormos.com
I research social movements, intersectional solidarity, disasters, and environmental, racial, and economic justice at @pittsociology.bsky.social. I lead policy for the @jtalliance.bsky.social. www.fernandotormos.com
@djgalvin.bsky.social
Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University. Labor politics & policy, alt-labor, wage theft, APD & APE. https://sites.northwestern.edu/danieljgalvin/
@alexspeidel.bsky.social
Organizer for the Diana Jones Award Winning United Paizo Workers; I tell people what kind of elves they can pretend to be for Paizo Organized Play. He/him, known bisexual. https://pnwmole.com/
@povertyscholar.bsky.social
Prof @Cornell studying: power, poverty, racism, policy (health & housing) |Author: Fragmented Democracy: Medicaid, Federalism & Unequal Politics |Builder|Believer
@hahrie.bsky.social
Director of @SNFAgoraJHU, Professor of PolSci, Director of P3 Lab @JohnsHopkins. Studying organizing, movements, civic engagement, democracy. All views my own.
@riavanitas.com
RiaVanitas ✷ Capital District NY Community Organizer & Artist ✷ ASU art history student, Creatives Rebuild NY 22-23 ✷ Viet 2nd gen immigrant #LandBack portfolio: www.riavanitas.com prints: https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/riavanitas/ 💌 lyhoang@riavanitas.com
@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social
policy, $, political economy of race // 70-80s soul, 90s hip hop // #DubNation // proud product of miscegenation // Berkeley prof (formerly: Princeton CSDP, UW)
@barnraiser.bsky.social
Your independent source for rural and small town news https://barnraisingmedia.com/
@silyanelarcher.bsky.social
Social Scientist — Assoc. Prof. of Gender & Sexuality Studies and Black Studies @NorthwesternU — Racism, Gender & Power. Historical Sociology. Political Theory — Anticolonial Feminist — Martinique & Chicago —Ex.CNRS tenured Research Scholar in PoliSci (FR)
@economistaatl.bsky.social
🇲🇽 organizer turned economist. I've run campaigns, marched on bosses, been teargassed. Southern, queer, & autistic AF. Views are mine only.,
@saminthecan.bsky.social
Internationalist writer - Bylines in many places and mostly about imperialism - Editor at leftvoice.org - He/him - Opinions my own - Please follow my writing⬇️ https://substack.com/@saminthecan?r=9ktav&utm_campaign=profile&utm_medium=profile-page
@underthetreepod.bsky.social
A podcast that takes you on a journey to reimagine how we can bring freedom & liberation to life. https://linktr.ee/underthetree
@trung-ngq.bsky.social
il/lui | Doctorant en sociologie - violences LGBTIphobes • genre et sexualité • sociologie de la race • sociologie de l'État he/him | PhD student in sociology - anti-LGBT+ violence • gender and sexuality • Critical Race Theory • sociology of the State
@eidlin.bsky.social
Former organizer, current Associate Professor of Sociology at McGill University. Author, Labor and the Class Idea in the US and Canada (Cambridge University Press, 2018)
@borderless.bsky.social
The future is up for grabs. The world we live in is awful but the one we're building is worth it. Bringing my whole self to the apocalypse. Director of Development @distributeaid.org he/they, often a newcomer views my own trust + supplychains + tech 🚛💻🏴🖤
@nytguildtech.bsky.social
We are the software engineers, designers, data analysts & scientists, product managers and project managers who build the digital products @ NYTimes. We won our union in March 2022 and we're bargaining our first contract!
@bonpote.com
Média qui alerte sur un truc pas cool : le changement climatique Livre : Tout comprendre (ou presque) sur le climat, CNRS Éditions https://bonpote.com/
@bostonreview.bsky.social
A magazine of ideas, politics, and culture, committed to the power of collective reasoning and imagination to create a more just world. Independent and nonprofit since 1975. SUBSCRIBE: bostonreview.net/memberships DONATE: bostonreview.net/donations
@daisy-pitkin.bsky.social
Union Organizer. Writer. Newish Yinzer. Director at Starbucks Workers United. Author of ON THE LINE, Two Women’s Epic Fight to Build a Union
@silkys13.bsky.social
executive director, Detention Watch Network, author Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition (Haymarket Books, 2024), from Texas, views my own book info/events: https://www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/unbuild-walls
@ericblanc.bsky.social
Assistant Prof Rutgers Labor Studies; author We are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big www.ucpress.edu/books/we-are-the-union/ Red State Revolt, laborpolitics.substack.com; EWOC, Rutgers AAUP-AFT, 🌹
@lizzzs.bsky.social
Feminist/white/Jewish/parent/writer. Solidarity is action (Mia McKenzie). Courage then action then hope. Interested in trauma. I write songs and stuff sometimes. (Like ptsdthemusical.net) I mostly curate and comment. Bike riding is the best fun. she/her
@nplusonemag.com
n+1 is a print and digital magazine of literature, culture, and politics. nplusonemag.com
@prisonculture.bsky.social
co-founder of various organizations: Interrupting Criminalization; Survived & Punished; Sojourners for Justice Press; For the People Leftist Library Project, etc...
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
DC. political philosopher at Georgetown. rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. Spurs fan #COYS
@kimkelly.bsky.social
labor journalist and author of ‘FIGHT LIKE HELL’ 🏴 big on metal, workers, tattoos, cold places, and Philly. my books: https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Kim-Kelly/178891913 my lefty heavy metal newsletter: salvo.ghost.io rep: The Shipman Agency
@moreperfectunion.bsky.social
Nonprofit newsroom. Media that builds power for working people. Join us: https://linktr.ee/moreperfectunion
@gabrielwinant.bsky.social
Historian, opinions my own. Hand upon the dollar, eye upon the scale. He/him.
@astra.bsky.social
Author of a growing pile of books (Solidarity; The Age of Insecurity; Remake the World; Democracy May Not Exist, but We'll Miss it When It's Gone; The People's Platform), maker of documentaries, schemer with the Debt Collective, editing at Hammer & Hope.
@fisherdanar.bsky.social
Director, Center for Environment Community, & Equity and Professor, AU | NonRes Sr Fellow, Brookings | Chair, Political Soc, ASA | IPCCWG3 AR6 | www.danarfisher.com | TED Talk on Saving Ourselves: go.ted.com/danarfisher
@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
Raised on Coast Miwok land, longtime resident on Ramaytush Ohlone land, writer, climate person, feminist, wanderer. Just started a newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com.
@eveewing.bsky.social
I’m a Chicagoan and a prof and I write a lot of things like books [Original Sins, Electric Arches, 1919, Ghosts in the Schoolyard, Maya and the Robot] and comics [Exceptional X-Men, Black Panther, Ironheart] and more + I love my dog so so much
@inthesetimes.com
A publication committed to informing and advancing movements for social, economic, racial and environmental justice. Founded in 1976.
@amywestervelt.bsky.social
Award-winning investigative climate reporter. Ida Tarbell stan. Run Drilled.media, Critical Frequency, former co-host of Hot Take (RIP), contributor to lots of places. She/her/ella in 🇨🇷. Got a lead? Signal: adubs.78. Protonmail: amy@drilled.media
@dnbrgr.bsky.social
Writer of words, hater of prisons Author of STAYED ON FREEDOM: THE LONG HISTORY OF BLACK POWER THROUGH ONE FAMILY’S JOURNEY, plus other things. www.danberger.info | www.waprisonhistory.org
@haymarketbooks.org
radical publisher of politics, culture, current events haymarketbooks.org
@devawo.bsky.social
Politics Prof., author of The Politics of Common Sense & Reckoning: Black Lives Matter and the Democratic Necessity of Social Movements
@leximcmenamin.com
permanent Philadelphian in NYC news + politics editor @teenvogue.com member @transjournalists.org @leximcmenamin on twit/insta/tumblr linktr.ee/leximcmenamin
@clementpetitj.bsky.social
Community organizing | social movements | Chicago | yoga. Associate professor, Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne. Author of "Occupation: Organizer" (Haymarket Books)