On April 1st, The Forge published Bargaining for the Common Good: Organizing in the Coronavirus Era and Beyond, a BCG edition of the online organizer magazine that includes twelve different articles and webinars with authors over 25 authors and speakers with global reach across the racial justice, housing, climate, environmental justice and labor movements. These pieces show the breadth and depth of the BCG movement, a key tool as we fight for equity in this moment. 

Here's the complete list of authors, articles and webinars:

The issue begins with a Call to Action, laying out the argument and making a specific case for how to approach the next few years.  

https://forgeorganizing.org/article/call-action-moment

Sheri Davis Faulkner, Lauren Jacobs, Marilyn Sneiderman and Renata Pumarol describe how BCG is an intersectional feminist strategy, part of the “Bread and Roses” historical legacy, rejecting the divide between home and work, between community and labor. 

https://forgeorganizing.org/article/we-want-bread-and-housing-too-bargaining-common-good-intersectional-feminist-strategy

Todd Vachon, Gerry Hudson, Judith LeBlanc and Saket Soni detail the importance of Bargaining for the Common Good as a tool to help unite labor, climate and environmental justice organizations in the fight to save our planet. 

https://forgeorganizing.org/article/bargaining-climate-justice

Malini Cadambi-Daniel and Patrick Nowlan call for the movement to approach higher education organizing through a BCG lens, reimagining what we collectively want the system to be for all of us.

https://forgeorganizing.org/article/transforming-higher-education-moment-uniting-bargain-common-good

Saqib Bhatti and Kevin Connor draw out the linkages between going up the money tree to those really in power and the Bargaining for the Common Good approach. https://forgeorganizing.org/article/going-money-tree

Maurice Weeks and Liz Perlman describe the racial justice analysis undergirding BCG by telling the story of an AFSCME local organizing in the University of California system. https://forgeorganizing.org/article/bargaining-common-good-racial-justice

Armando Santiago Pintado and Manuel Rodríguez Banchs discuss how Puerto rican movement leaders are fighting to transform their communities using the BCG approach. 

https://forgeorganizing.org/article/we-fight-back-thrive-not-survive-bargaining-common-good-puerto-rico

Armando Santiago Pintado y Manuel Rodríguez Banchs discuten como líderes puertorriqueños del movimiento están luchando para transformar sus comunidades usando la herramienta de Negociación por el Bien Común.   

https://forgeorganizing.org/article/luchamos-para-vencer-no-para-sobrevivir-negociamos-por-el-bien-com%C3%BAn-en-puerto-rico

Harmony Goldberg and Valery Alzaga describe how combining popular education and Bargaining for the Common Good helps build a powerful movement army from the ground up with a shared analysis of how the super-rich are driving injustice in all our communities.

https://forgeorganizing.org/article/engaging-membership-through-popular-education-key-tool-building-bargaining-common-good

Erin Mahoney and Rita Berlofa draw out how bank workers around the world are gaining ground by using a Bargaining for the Common Good framework, uniting tellers and consumers who are both victims of these large financial institutions.

https://forgeorganizing.org/article/bargaining-common-good-and-fight-better-banks-our-communities

Christina Livingston, Afua Atta-Mensah and Sara Myklebust draw out the importance of home in this moment, how housing has become a commodity and the need for a labor-community partnership to fight for the shelter we all deserve.  

https://forgeorganizing.org/article/we-all-need-home-it%E2%80%99s-time-labor-and-housing-movements-unite

Merrie Najimy and Joe McCartin share the historical context for BCG and how it builds on centuries of labor and community organizing for social and economic justice to take on this moment and create an equitable world. https://forgeorganizing.org/article/origins-and-urgency-bargaining-common-good

Sharing BCG’s webinar with Alex Caputo-Pearl, Amy Schur, Rudy Gonzalves and others who led the January 2019 United Teachers’ of Los Angeles (UTLA) strike and discuss strategies and lessons learned in this ongoing fight for LA communities. 

https://forgeorganizing.org/article/lessons-la-teachers-common-good-campaign-and-strike-victory

Sharing a webinar with Stacy Davis-Gates, VP of the Chicago Teachers’ Union (CTU), and Amisha Patel, ED of Grassroots Collaborative, discussing the recent Chicago educators’ strike for the City our Communities Deserve. 

https://forgeorganizing.org/article/chicago-teachers-strike-schools-our-students-deserve-and-city-our-community-deserves