We are living in amazing times.  Between the groundbreaking election of President Obama and the onset of the largest economic crisis that this country has seen in decades, the terrain of politics is rapidly shifting beneath our feet. We need to do some serious work to upgrade our vision and our organizing practices if we are going to take advantage of this historic moment.

Organizing Upgrade is an innovative new web-forum launched by Harmony Goldberg, Sushma Sheth and Joseph Phelan.  Organizing Upgrade was created to provide a space where left organizers from across the country can engage in a strategic dialogue about the political terrain and share thinking on what we need to do to take our work to the next level. We hope that this project can bring the kind of inspiration and strategic clarity that we need to strengthen our political impact in our immediate fights and in our longer-term efforts to build the social justice movement and to revitalize a movement-rooted left in the United States.  Each month, Organizing Upgrade will be publishing three new pieces by innovative left and radical leaders who are rooted in the community organizing world.