Are there alternatives to the failing national reproductive rights organizing model?
My post last week about how national organizations let abortion rights be used as a pawn in the budget fight has generated some interesting questions. Most important and challenging, I think: so what do we do? What’s the answer? If our current organizing model is failing us, what should we be doing instead? I wish I knew. It’s clear to me the way national pro-choice organizations currently function – existing to exist, not to actually win on our issues – isn’t working. Critique is often easier than visioning something different, and I think it’s going to take a movement’s worth of visionaries to find better ways forward. I don’t know exactly what will work, but I do want to share some ideas, models and questions about a different approach that are floating around right now. Honest, accurate political guidance from national organizations First, as I said in the original post, we need honesty about how DC politics work, what matters and what doesn’t. It’s easiest for organizations to use
