Q: How Can Local Activists Work to Counter the Conservative Assault on Rights and Liberties?

• Date: 01 December 2022

CHRISTINE NEUMANN-ORTIZ

Executive Director of Voces de la Frontera

We can counter that by continuing to promote a culture of organizing, and by organizing in different ways around different needs, such as among working people at their workplace or industry. But we also need to organize in schools. In Milwaukee, where Voces de la Frontera has chapters, for example, the universal free school lunch program is under threat and students are organizing to keep it going.

Crucial to organizing is making people aware of what's happening, forming alliances, and pushing for accountability with local elected officials. Our biggest challenge in the United States is keeping the culture of organizing alive and...