George Goehl

George Goehl: Roll Like an Organizer Podcast Episode · How We Build This · 12/09/2025 · 44m

@georgegoehl.bsky.social and I unpack fundamental lessons of organizing - hint - listening is a big one. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

Dates Announced: Working-Class Campaigns Training Big moments call for great organizing. We're now taking our Working-Class Campaigns training to scale and hope you'll join us.

Big moments call for great organizing. We're now taking our Working-Class Campaigns training to scale and hope you'll spread the word.

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Responding to Bullies It will be strategic decisions by organizers that turn being under attack into being on offense.

Bullies swing hard, and when they do, a precise nudge in one direction or a well-timed step out of their path can leave them landing face-first in the dirt. A bit about how we respond. georgegoehl.substack.com/p/responding...

It could be the organization’s moral standing in the community. Power comes in many forms; know which kind you’re building.

Think of power broadly. Power is more than the size of your membership. It is the time, money, and relationships members are willing to risk. Power is the relationships the organization has forged, the funds it has raised, the capacities created.

A building of unorganized tenants is at the mercy of the property owner. Organized, they could refuse to pay rent and become a force to be reckoned with.

Potential power is everywhere. Ten thousand unorganized people ripped off by payday lenders are individual victims, completely disconnected. Organized, they are a power bloc that could challenge and change the industry.

We organize to transform potential power into actual power. Potential power exists in a neighborhood, within a class, workplace, or political district, but until organized into a force that can act as one, it’s all untapped potential.
which kind you’re building.

Power is the ability to marshal forces—people, money, and ideas—to move things. It is something many of us are taught to fear, a force used against us. Power is neutral; it can be used for good or evil. We build it to be held by large groups of people who want justice for themselves and others too.

All across the world, people are asking what can i do? And want to know how to organize. Sharing Fundamentals of Organizing in threads here in hope that they can be of help.