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Journal of New Organizing

From the Editor

Welcome to the inaugural issue of the Journal of New Organizing, an online publication devoted to reporting and analyzing organizing practices, leadership development and campaign innovation in the progressive community.

This issue features original articles from practitioners and observers. Organizer Sam Drzymala goes inside one uphill, effective campaign to advance immigrant rights in a campus community, reporting how some students are applying lessons from the 2008 presidential election to organizing and coalition-building at the local level. Anne Marie Ashburn, a former Obama campaign organizer and staff member of the New Organizing Institute, proposes a paradigm of socially networked data in a detailed, technical essay on the
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role of data in sharing and empowerment on campaigns. Former Obama campaign organizer Tyler Rodgers explores several case studies of how volunteers from the 2008 election are advancing the new administration’s agenda, and organizing themselves in neighborhood teams. Finally, Matt Ewing, a former MoveOn organizer and fellow at the New Organizing Institute, provides an actionable guide for creating an organizing battle plan – drawing on actual battle plans from the U.S. military’s Troop Leadership Procedure.

Each of these articles is designed as an original, researched, and constructive contribution to advance public knowledge and transparent dialogue between practitioners, leaders and experts in the organizing space. To that end, the Journal welcomes responses, letters, article proposals and original submissions at jno@neworganizing.com. We hope to spur deeper exploration and discussion of ideas about organizing, and to tap this community’s talents to spread and organize some of the ideas in these pages.

Best,

Judith Freeman