Organize! Movement Meet-up

At the first ever Organize! Movement Meetup, 40 speakers will take the stage for 30 sessions, including keynotes, workshops, panel talks - and games.

As previously announced, Jeremy Corbyn will join us as keynote speaker. Other keynote speakers include Susanne Lang from the federal office of Germany's DIE LINKE, head of the department of digitalization and organization.

Jeremy Corbyn, Your Party

Susanne Lang, Die Linke

Jeremy Corbyn, Your Party
Susanne Lang, Die Linke

"What I'm proud of with this program isn't the big names – it's the range. We have people working on everything from door knocking and recruitment to race-class narrative, digital organizing and print. Organizing, in other words, in its broadest sense. From New York to Berlin to Malmö. That's not accidental – it reflects where the international left is right now: in motion, learning, and with a shared determination to build the mass movement we need to fight back against the rising tide of fascism and win", says Daniel Sestrajcic, lead organizer of the Meetup.

The program is divided into four themes: Strategy and Power, Building Organization, Campaigning, and Organizing and Tech. Below are some highlights under every theme from the 2026 program - the full program will be released shortly.

Strategy and Power

Jonathan Smucker (US) is a political organizer, strategist, co-founder of the Popular Comms Institute and the author of "Hegemony How-To: A Roadmap for Radicals". Smucker will host two workshops at the Meetup; the first one is analyzing how leaders redirect public anger toward cultural elites and vulnerable groups instead of economic elites, and offers frameworks for rebuilding genuinely inclusive, working-class-centered populist movements titled Inclusive Populism: Antidote to Authoritarian PseudoPopulism. Smucker’s second workshop is focusing on how grassroots organizations, movements, and campaigns can persuade, mobilize, and organize broader social bases - Beyond the Choir, as the session is titled.

Gemma Copeland, Common Knowledge

Jonathan Smucker

Gemma Copeland, Common Knowledge
Jonathan Smucker

Common Knowledge (UK) is a not-for-profit worker cooperative of technologists, designers, researchers and facilitators. They work in collaboration with organisers, using their digital skills to help build their capacity, ambition and power. Their focus is on building durable power and strengthening collective capacity across the movement ecology. Common Knowledge will offer a presentation and interactive workshop titled Seeing the Field: Mapping for Strategic Organising. Mapping can be a powerful tool for organizers to cut through complexity such as shifting alliances, uneven capacity or patchy data. Maps help us externalise our thinking into something tangible that we can play with, build upon, and act from together. This session introduces a set of practical mapping techniques — from stakeholder mapping to power analysis — and then get hands-on, using them to work through a real organising challenge together.

Raquel Jesse (UK) is an organizer working with race and class narratives in political communication, whose focuses on how narratives around race and class can be used to build broader support. Jesse will share her insights into The Race-Class Narrative (RCN), an evidence-based messaging framework designed to counter strategic racism. It directly addresses how opponents use dog-whistle racism to divide people, instead uniting a diverse "we" to push for shared prosperity and equity.

Francisco Contreras (SE/CL) will give a workshop on Building Political Strategy. Drawing on the work of Marta Harnecker (Chilean-Cuban political theorist and one of Latin America's most influential Marxist thinkers), this session digs into how long-term goals and short-term tactics can be grounded in a concrete analysis of reality. You will leave the workshop with a first draft of your own strategy!

Building Organization

Alicia Smedberg

Aidan Cassidy

Alicia Smedberg
Aidan Cassidy

Aidan Cassidy (UK) is a National Organiser for ACORN the Union based in Sheffield. He's been involved in ACORN for a decade as a member and then a staff organiser and seen ACORN grow from a handful of groups across the country to an organisation of thousands of people winning victories against the government, international banks, and millionaire landlords. Aidan will share his insights on leadership as well as housing and tenant fights in two separate sessions!

Alicia Smedberg (SE) holds a PhD in participatory design and works at the intersection of research, teaching, and activism. Her work explores collaborative methods, public participation, and how research practices can contribute to social and political change. Smedberg's workshop From reflection to action - Workshops as Generative Method examines how workshops can build collective understanding and shared political imagination, emphasizing collaborative and democratic knowledge production. Participants will get a hands-on tutorial on how to set up their own workshop for democratic future making.

Samah Elous (SE) teaches Community Organizing and Public Narrative at Harvard Kennedy School to international leaders. Currently, she is working on the climate board campaign by Vision, which is one of the biggest work unions in Sweden, focusing on reducing CO2 emissions at working places. Elous will be giving a workshop titled Building a Story of Self / Story of Us / Story of Now where you will learn to craft a strong story of self, enabling you to turn your people into a strong, united constituency.

Campaigning

Lutz Wallhorn and Alioun Diagne (GE) will give a workshop titled From Data to Doors: Mapping Neighbourhoods, Milieus, and Campaign Potential. This will be a practical session on how public data can support real world organizing and campaigning. Using examples such as scraping large housing companies, clustering election results to identify local milieus, and building election models, the session will explore how data can help answer a simple question: where should we focus next?

Organizing and Tech

Knut Hühne

Max Haiven

Knut Hühne
Max Haiven

Knut Hühne (GE) is a developer and activist based in Berlin and active in Die Linke. His work focuses on digital security and the role of technology in political organizing. Hühne will offer a workshop in Digital Security for Organizers, giving you the fundamentals of web security, explaining how the web, communication protocols and encryption interact.

Other headlines include:
Magdalena Morańda & Gustavo Gordillo (US), Field lead deep dive - How to build and scale field leads
Bente Hinrichs (DK), Activation Pipeline
Max Haiven (CA), Game Making for Radicals
Bruno Lauteslager (NL), Deep Canvassing
Jeremy Parkin & Dakota Hoskins (US), Talking to Volunteers and building Leadership
James Schneider (UK), Mass politics organizing from below

... and more!

We will also make sure you get the most out of the network by enjoying dinners, and one huge Saturday night party.

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Registration is open!

People you will meet, ideas you will learn

Program

At the first ever Organize! Movement Meetup, 40 speakers will take the stage for 30 sessions, including keynotes, workshops, panel talks - and games.

Strategy and Power

Building Organization

Campaigning

Organizing and Tech

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