On the Ground at RootsCamp 2025
The brainpower is extraordinary. 🚀
RootsCamp 2025 is setting the stage for the progressive movement's powerful future. Almost 400 badass organizers, activists, leaders and campaign staff gathered yesterday to co-create new strategies and tactics to resist Trump and, more importantly, build real, safe and sustainable solutions for our country.
RootsCamp began with electrifying speakers. Reggie Hubbard, the resident political wellness guru, discussed what it takes to sustain a movement—caring for yourself and recognizing when something is wrong. We're mad, scared and angry, but we know it can get better.
So, we took a collective deep breath, cleared the spiritual gunk from our systems and committed to finding new paths forward. That is the goal of RootsCamp. We are no longer at a time to wait and see; we will no longer wait for someone else to tell us what we need to do.
We are with some of our movement's most impactful and influential leaders—those who joined this fight in just the past five months and those who have been fighting for nearly 50 years, such as Heather Booth, who reminded us that while the tactics are horrifying, this is nothing new. She shared lessons from her decades of community organizing experience, from traveling in the South during Freedom Summer 1964 to starting a pre-Roe underground abortion fund to founding the Midwest Academy.
The bottom line? Even if it feels insurmountable, when we organize, we can still create change with a ripple effect of outcomes, informing the answers we need for the unknown obstacles we’ll face.
RootsCamp is the starting point for the path forward. It’s our collective opportunity to have the conversations we need to start innovating, planning, strategizing, and acting. And that is EXCITING… it's liberating. We are the change we’ve been waiting for.
Tune into our plenary today at 4:15 pm ET to hear from Rep. Romman, GA State Representative for HD 97 and co-founder of the Georgia Volunteer Hub, and A'shanti Gholar, the First Black woman to lead Emerge and founder of The Brown Girls Guide to Politics.
Learn more about Reggie Hubbard: Active Peace Yoga