A Dream Foreclosed

Hurry — you have less than two weeks to become a member of Waging Nonviolence and receive a signed copy of associate editor Laura Gottesdiener’s first book A Dream Foreclosed: Black America and the Fight for a Place to Call Home, published by Zuccotti Park Press.

As Tom Dispatch wrote today, “Gottesdiener’s new book, A Dream Foreclosed: Black America and the Fight for a Place to Call Home, is a people’s history of the financial crisis that jolted this country and has never ended.  It has been hailed by Naomi Klein as ‘riveting’ and Noam Chomsky as a ‘most valuable study… with historical depth and analytical insight.’”

Join Waging Nonviolence for $5/a month or more and help support independent reporting on social movements around the globe while also receiving a signed copy of Laura’s first book!

Recent Stories

  • Analysis

It’s time for movements to rethink social media

August 13, 2026

Movements can still find people on social media. But the real organizing has to happen somewhere else — and getting people there is the part we keep skipping.

  • Review

Why bravery and heartbreak are essential to organizing

August 11, 2026

Reflecting on decades of organizing — from Occupy to Mamdani’s campaign — Yotam Marom’s book “For Louder Days” offers a powerful guide to making hard choices.

  • Q&A

The inside-outside strategy behind New York’s rent freeze

August 7, 2026

Julie Xu, a tenant organizer in Chinatown, explains why a 20-year movement for a rent freeze pivoted — and built a coalition to elect Mayor Zohran Mamdani.