Strategies

Paid Peer-to-peer Employment

Young people of high school age and recent graduates--African-ancestored, Latinx, Indigenous, Asian, and White working class--are paid as members of collectives to teach each other what they know.

Crawl spaces for organizing, earning, and learning

Young people in Baltimore have used paid peer-to-peer employment as an organizing base to stop construction of youth jails, demand changes in school policing, and generate additional paid employment.

Fashioning an Insurgency

Undoing racism, patriarchy, capitalism, and violence requires the ability to interrupt those systems with creative power—an “earned insurgency.” Paid peer-to-peer employment in knowledge work is one way to give young people time, relationships, and locations in which to design interruptions to the status quo that generate new social, political, and economic forms.