63 Magazine - Issue 1

By Alice McAlexander, Editor
I wrote the following letter earlier this year
to all of the field organizers already
working remarkably hard for the
2016 election cycle. I wanted to help
organizers going into the incredibly
hard month of August feel a bit better.
But it soon became more than just
one letter.
It inspired Warren and I to think about
what the organizing community had
available to regularly inspire and uplift
them. Despite the dozens of great
organizations working to train organizers,
we started to realize organizers everywhere
needed a champion. We want to be that
champion, so we created 63 Magazine, a
digital magazine and online community
for progressive political organizers.
Augusts
Are
Hard
The Inspiration for 63 Magazine
I joined my first campaign as an organizing
fellow for Barack Obama in Richmond,
Virginia in the summer of 2008. After a
summer of non-stop voter reg and call time,
I was so lucky to be hired as an organizer
in Chesterfield, Virginia. I soon learned
that being an organizer was a lot more
than doing voter contact all day. It’s hard,
rewarding, consuming, transformational,
exhausting, and inspirational work and
those first few months as an organizer
would prepare me for everything
else I would face in my future.
We hope 63 Magazine will make organizing
jobs a little bit easier to do, and we’re excited
to see how we can help the movement.
Here’s the letter that inspired 63Mag.