We Are Rising Majority

We Are Rising Majority

In 2017, movements and allied organizations formed Rising Majority, a coalition that commits to a shared vision and strategy that brings together labor, youth, abolition, immigrant rights, climate justice, feminist, anti-war, and economic justice forces to amplify our collective power and to build alignment across our movements.

Our Work

Building Solidarity Across Communities

Rising Majority has been deep in the practice of solidarity and defense from the very beginning –whether mobilizing against the so-called border crisis in 2017 or during the COVID-19 pandemic and the George Floyd uprisings. In recent years, our member organizations have led responses on the attacks against immigrants, queer and trans people, Black people, Muslim & Arab communities, and more. We are in the streets together, making meaning and taking action.

The attacks on the lives of our communities are also an attack on the fundamental ideas that we believe should guide our world: mutual care, solidarity, belonging, and well-being for all people and the planet. Our fight against these attacks are about preserving life and forging forward a pathway in which of our vision of the world has a fighting chance.

We fight these attacks by increasing the level of coordination and collaboration across different parts of our movement, emphasizing the need to pool together our leadership, resources, and infrastructure to be as strategic, nimble, and responsive as possible.

Transforming our Democracy & the Economy

The past decade has shown us that naming what we are against is insufficient. We must also name what we are for and build toward that vision. Through a shared visioning process, Rising Majority has a vision of a world in 2050 that centers the well-being of all peoples and the planet. Plainly speaking, we want to construct a world where we are the ones to make decisions about our bodies, our labor, our lands, and our resources; that in every community, the priorities that are resourced are the priorities we choose that benefit the whole.

We know that actualizing this vision takes work and is a multi-generational task. In order to do this well, our communities must be equipped to lead, given the room to be creative and experimental, and be the ones to tell the story of who we are and the future we are moving toward.

Rising Majority builds for this vision of democracy and the economy by ensuring that our shared strategy is connected across issues, identities, geographies, and movements; that no matter the frontlines, the core of the fight remains the same: building our power to democratically govern over our lives and our economy.

Uniting for a Bigger ‘We’& Long-Lasting Power

While the crises grow, we can’t take for granted that we are the rising majority: millions of people who believe in housing, healthcare, education, and safety for all; millions of people who believe that everyone has the right to move to be with our loved ones and the right to stay where we consider home; millions of people who believe that we must invest in care, safety, and healing not punishment, bombs, or war; millions of people who believe that we get to determine what makes a family; millions of people who believe that together we are stronger than what seeks to divide us.

Rising Majority knows that our vision for radical democracy and a regenerative economy is something that communities from different walks of life can get behind. We seek to build a movement that embraces our differences, leans into the places where we have unity, and encourages us all to be transformed in service of the world we want to live in and build for future generations.