Lessons From Organizing Under an Obama Presidency

FEATURING COURTNEY MORRIS – The conventional wisdom of political organizing is that it is easier to make progressive gains under a Democratic president than a Republican one. Certainly under Barack Obama’s 8-year tenure progressives have seen some significant gains on the environmental, racial justice, and a tiny bit on economic justice. There have of course been losses. But what is facing us as a country under President elect Donald Trump is likely to make Obama’s presidency look like “the good old days.”

What worked under Obama and will the same work under Trump?

Courtney Morris, assistant professor of African American and Women’s Studies at Penn State University and a correspondent for Rising Up With Sonali.