Metropolitics

Political Organizing Beyond the Election: An Interview with Rosa Saavedra in North Carolina

Rosa Saavedra & Edwin Mayorga — 2020-11-02T18:33:02Z

Edwin Mayorga interviews organizer Rosa Saavedra from North Carolina. They discuss the political landscape and community organizing beyond voter mobilization. A lightly edited transcript is published below.
Edwin Mayorga: Buen día, I'm Edwin Mayorga, an associate professor of educational studies at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania and a member of Metropolitics.
I recently spoke with political organizer Rosa Saavedra about the political landscape in North and South Carolina as the 2020 US

- Interviews / audio, US election, presidential election, elections, vote, community organizing, North Carolina, United States, mobilization

Electoral Organizing in North Carolina: An Interview with Tomás Garduño

Tomás Garduño & Kate Selden — 2020-10-27T06:00:00Z

Kate Selden interviews Tomás Garduño, a social-justice organizer, about his work in Lenoir County, North Carolina, leading up to the 2020 general election and the importance of organizing in rural areas. A lightly edited transcript of their conversation is published below.
Kate Selden: My name is Kate Selden, I'm an urban planner in Brooklyn, and I work in affordable housing development.
I'm here with Tomás, who I will let introduce himself.
Tomás Garduño: My name is Tomás Garduño, I'm

- Interviews / US election, presidential election, elections, vote, social justice, North Carolina, United States, rural, community organizing, video

Community-Rooted Organizations: Enhanced Accountability and Capacity Building for Community Development

Camryn Smith & Danielle Spurlock & Aliyah Abdur-Rahman & Kay Jowers — 2020-07-10T05:00:00Z

Communities in Partnership, in Durham, North Carolina, uses a “community-rooted” approach to its work that leverages community residents' expertise and resources, as an alternative to “community-based” organizations that can marginalize community voice, limit capacity building, and neglect the underlying causes of community conditions.
Communities in Partnership (CIP), a nonprofit organization in Durham, North Carolina, addresses the structural barriers that impact low-wealth communities of

- Essays / community organizing, community development, capacity building, North Carolina, Durham (North Carolina), United States, community-based organizations, community-rooted organizations, systems change

Reflections on Retooling for the Covid‑19 Pandemic

Nichola Lowe & Tara Vinodrai — 2020-06-19T06:00:00Z

Factories are adapting to the new conditions and needs the coronavirus has introduced by retooling production lines and repurposing knowledge and technology to manufacture essential items for Covid‑19 management. Nichola Lowe and Tara Vinodrai assess the nature and scale of these retooling efforts and argue that institutions can support manufacturing in ways that respond to crises and support economic regeneration.
Factories in cities and communities around the world are retooling production

- Essays / manufacturing, Covid-19, coronavirus, industry, textile industry, North Carolina, South Carolina, United States, North America, start-ups, pandemic