By Nijmie Dzurinko and Iaan Reynolds Organizing to fundamentally change society is a monumental task. It requires a lot of us as individuals—in particular because it is a collective project. In order to do this collective work we must be able to do our individual tasks as well as combine our efforts to design and implement processes—determining the order of operations and solving problems along the way. We must coordinate others and be coordinated; keep our eyes on the whole as well as the individual parts; check in with, support, and hold people accountable. We have to be willing to
By Nijmie Zakkiyyah Dzurinko Remarks given to the University of the Poor’s inaugural Cadre Course and Organizing Campaign, August 2020 Why do we need the University of the Poor, a cadre organization? I think that we all know that uniting our class is the most difficult thing that we have to do. To situate myself: I fell into this stuff just through my own life experience. The way that I grew up, the way that I was raised. I just was constantly asking why and trying to figure out what was going on around me. And thankfully, I understood that
