Amram

A disorienting club encounter produces a genuinely promising new organizer with fresh outreach ideas The Stranger From the Club Photo Story Is Now Actually Volunteering With Our Group and It…

Forty doors of polite disinterest yield one honest conversation that beats a false yes talked into someone I Canvassed for Six Hours in the Rain and Only One Door Actually…

A newer member’s critique of institutional caution reshapes strategy after two uncomfortable but honest hours Our Organizing Meeting Devolved Into an Actual Argument and I Think That Was Healthy Our…

Months of sustained uncertainty finally release in a club bathroom once the margin becomes mathematically safe The Measure We Canvassed For All Spring Actually Passed and I Cried In a…

An unposed doorstep photo apparently motivated a stranger to volunteer, revealing organizing’s invisible ripple effects I Got Recognized From a Canvassing Photo By a Complete Stranger at a Club and…

Megan Astor on a fierce Tuesday meeting, a club night that ran until dawn, and the satire that got passed around after everyone had finally calmed down Our reading group…

Megan Amram’s diary on Portland organising, club nights, and one very stubborn landlord I want to start by saying that when the meeting notice said “should wrap up within the…

A Portland diary on regulatory theatre, corporate power, and what actual accountability would look like I read about the European Commission’s eight hundred and ninety million euro fine against Google…

A Portland diary on housing as commodity, ambition as substitute for delivery, and who actually benefits from the wait Burnham’s housing speech crossed my feed the same week Portland’s own…

A Portland diary on institutional resilience, protest imagery, and who the metaphor is really describing India’s Cockroach Party marching on parliament gave the reading group considerably more to chew on…