Building Governing Power with Sendolo Diaminah
Episode Description
Ejeris Dixon sits down with organizer, strategist, and Carolina Federation co-director Sendolo Diaminah for a powerful conversation about what it takes to build a political home strong enough to confront the Far Right. Sendolo shares the story of how workplace organizing and a clear-eyed assessment of power led him to help build one of North Carolina’s most significant independent political organizations. Together, Ejeris and Sendolo explore voter suppression, the criminalization of mass participation, and why the fight against fascism requires movements that can organize and overwhelm systems designed to keep people from power.
Episode transcript coming soon!
About Sendolo
Sendolo Diaminah is the Co-Director of the Carolina Federation, a statewide organization that brings people together across race to build a new political majority in North Carolina – one rooted in a culture of belonging and strong enough to win elections and wield governing power in our state.
S/he is a strategist with over 15 years of experience in community and electoral organizing, as well as experience winning and holding elected office. Before founding the Federation, Sendolo worked as training director at Black Organizing for Leadership & Dignity (BOLD), where s/he developed somatically-based leadership curriculum for organizers and executive directors.
About Ejeris
Ejeris is a political strategist passionate about strengthening liberation movements and building community safety. Ejeris serves as the Fascism Barometer's "movement meteorologist," exploring the impact of fascist movements on communities of color, queer and trans communities, and all marginalized people. Having worked for the past twenty-five years at the intersections of racial justice, LGBTQ liberation, anti-violence, transformative justice, and economic justice movements, Ejeris focuses on creating political and strategic experiments to strengthen social justice movements through the organization Ejerie Labs.
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“VICTORY! MVP Partners Help Secure Pivotal NC Supreme Court Win” by Movement Voter Project
"What Does It Look Like When We Build Our Power and Fight the Right?" by Sendolo Diaminah, Maurice Mitchell, Alexa Horwart, Brendan Walsh, Convergence
“FBI Raids Ohio Voting Rights Organization” by Brad Reed, Common Dreams, Truthout
“Only 16 Houses Races Are Actually Competition in 2026 Midterms, Analysis Shows” by Chris Walker, Truthout
“The Tech Behind ICE” by Mijente, Just Futures Law, Surveillance Resistance Lab
“Analyzing The President’s Executive Order on Mail Voting” Wendy Weiser, Sean Morales-Doyle, Brennan Center for Justice
“Seven More Receive Harsh Sentences for ‘Terrorism’ After Attending Protest at Texas ICE Jail” by Democracy Now
“Birthright Ruling Won’t Halt Trump’s War on Immigrants — Only Organizing Will” by Justin Akers Chacón, Truthout
“Dismissals of Unfair Labor Practice Charges Have Surged Under Trump” by Shireen Akram-Boshar, Truthout
“The FBI is directing hundreds of analysts to its probe of Georgia’s 2020 presidential election” by Katie Brumback, Alanna Durkin Richer, Eric Tucker, AP News
“ICE arrests 10,000 in 5 days, a sharp late-June surge in Trump’s deportation push” by Rebecca Santana, AP News
“Trump Has the Same Huge Obsession That Mussolini Had” by Una Hajdari, The New Republic
“What is populism, and what does the term actually mean?” by David Molloy, BBC
“New NC law ends sanctuary city policies, mandates ICE cooperation” by Aaron Sánchez-Guerra, Public Radio East
“5 million have dropped ACA insurance after Trump and the GOP let prices skyrocket” by Selena Simmons-Duffin, NPR
“The Deeper Meaning Behind Trump’s Raid in Ohio” by Scot Nakagawa, Convergence
“White House Requests $87.6 Billion in Supplemental Funds, Mostly for Iran War” by Democracy Now
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Devotion, Strategy and Rigor with Sendolo Diaminah, Emergent Strategy Podcast with adrianne marie brown
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Sendolo Diaminah on The Long Road to Political Power with Jayanni Webster, Convergence
Building the Front, Strengthening Our Movements with Priya Johnson, Hashim Benford, Convergence
Populism-what does it mean and why is it dangerous for democracy with Council of Europe
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