Rising Majority

Rising Majority is a left-of-center coalition of activist organizations that coordinates strategy and mobilization across labor, immigration, environmentalist, and racial-identity causes. Founded in 2017 following the Democratic loss in the 2016 presidential election, the coalition explicitly frames its work in anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist terms, and has called for the abolition of police and prisons, an end to what it characterizes as U.S. imperialist foreign policy, and a fundamental restructuring of the American economy. At its creation, the coalition operated as a project of the Movement for Black Lives, initially under the fiscal sponsorship of the Alliance for Global Justice, an organization which has supported communist and authoritarian regimes, and later was fiscally sponsored by the Common Counsel Foundation. Rising Majority later separated to become an project of Common Counsel independent of Movement for Black Lives in 2024. Approximately 55 organizations are members of the coalition, spanning racial, labor, environmentalist, and immigrant-advocacy networks. 1 2 3 4 5 6

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At-A-Glance

Type: Non-profit, 501(c)(3), Fiscally Sponsored Project
Ideological Alignment: Left of Center
Issue Areas: Multi-Issue Advocacy
Website: therisingmajority.com
Project of:

Movement for Black Lives

Formation:

2017

Fiscal Sponsor:

Common Counsel Foundation

National Coordinator:

Loan Tran

Contents

    Background

    Rising Majority was formed in 2017 by the Movement for Black Lives and allied organizations in response to the 2016 election of President Donald Trump. Co-founding member organizations included the Center for Third World Organizing (CTWO), the Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, the R3 Coalition, and the Working Families Party, a left-wing New York third party that operates an “inside-outside” strategy relative to the Democratic Party. 7 6

    The coalition launched under the fiscal sponsorship of the Alliance for Global Justice (AfGJ), a Washington, D.C.-based organization that has sponsored numerous far-left to radical-left projects, including the Venceremos Brigade, Refuse Fascism, and Popular Resistance, and that has historically supported socialist and communist regimes. Rising Majority subsequently moved under the Common Counsel Foundation, a left-of-center Oakland-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit that also served as fiscal sponsor for the Movement for Black Lives. In 2024, Rising Majority separated its administrative infrastructure from Movement for Black Lives and became an independent project of the Common Counsel Foundation. 8 9

    Activities

    Rising Majority’s main goal is to promote a long-range strategic plan dubbed Vision 2050 that calls for a variety of far-left social and political changes by the year 2050. The coalition’s stated priorities include the abolition of police and prisons, the elimination of what it calls racial capitalism, anti-war and anti-imperialist organizing, and the adoption of “regenerative economy” policies that oppose fossil fuel extraction. 10 11 12

    Rising Majority took an active position on the Israel-Hamas conflict, calling for a ceasefire and an end to U.S. defense spending in Israel, stating that “These are taxpayer dollars going to occupation, apartheid, war crimes, and genocide.” The group also stated that “we see many similarities between the resistance movement of Palestinians to military occupation and the movements we are part of here to end racist policing, incarceration, occupation of Indigenous territories, and white supremacist, Christian fundamentalism targeting Black people, people of color, immigrants, women, LGBTQ people, and the poor and working class.” 13

    Member Organizations

    Member organizations of Rising Majority include the Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, the Arab Resource and Organizing Center, United We Dream, Women’s March, the Transgender Law Center, 350.org, the NDN Collective, Jobs with Justice, and the Movement Law Lab. 14

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    References

    1. “About.” Rising Majority. Accessed May 18, 2026. https://therisingmajority.com/.
    2. “Movement for Black Lives.” Official Website Homepage. January 4, 2021 (accessed via Internet Archive Wayback Machine). Available at: https://web.archive.org/web/20210104231715/https://m4bl.org/
    3. “Fiscal Sponsorship.” Alliance for Global Justice. Accessed June 28, 2026. https://afgj.org/sponsored-projects/fiscally-sponsored-projects.
    4. “The Rising Majority.” Grassroots Global Justice Alliance. February 6, 2020. Accessed May 18, 2026. https://ggjalliance.org/programs/the-rising-majority/.
    5. “Movement for Black Lives Marks a Decade of Progress: Building Autonomous Infrastructure and Advancing Black Liberation.” Common Counsel Foundation. January 30, 2025. Accessed May 18, 2026. https://www.commoncounsel.org/movement-for-black-lives-marks-a-decade-of-progress-building-autonomous-infrastructure-and-advancing-black-liberation/.
    6. “Home.” Rising Majority. Accessed May 18, 2026. https://risingmajority.org/
    7. “The Rising Majority.” Idealist. Accessed May 18, 2025. https://www.idealist.org/en/nonprofit/02b12d8671284788ad50c26413d208de-the-rising-majority-oakland.
    8. Stilson, Robert. “The Organizational Restructuring of Black Lives Matter: Movement for Black Lives.” Capital Research Center. April 29, 2021. Accessed May 18, 2026. https://capitalresearch.org/article/the-organizational-restructuring-of-black-lives-matter-movement-for-black-lives/.
    9. “Movement for Black Lives Marks a Decade of Progress.” Common Counsel Foundation. January 30, 2025. Accessed May 18, 2026. https://www.commoncounsel.org/movement-for-black-lives-marks-a-decade-of-progress-building-autonomous-infrastructure-and-advancing-black-liberation/.
    10. “Rising Majority Movement Congress Interest Form.” Action Network. Accessed May 18, 2026. https://actionnetwork.org/forms/rising-majority-movement-congress-interest-form.
    11. “Vision 2050.” Rising Majority. Accessed May 18, 2026. https://web.archive.org/web/20240703045255/https://therisingmajority.com/events-2/
    12. “Home.” Vision 2050. Accessed May 18, 2026. https://www.2050vision.org/#chapter-4
    13. “The USFWC joins The Rising Majority’s call to action to demand a ceasefire and stand in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza.” United States Federation of Worker Cooperatives. November 7, 2023. Accessed May 19, 2026. https://www.usworker.coop/blog/the-usfwc-joins-the-rising-majoritys-call-to-action-to-demand-a-ceasefire-and-stand-in-solidarity-with-palestinians-in-gaza/
    14. “Our Membership.” Rising Majority. Accessed May 19, 2026. https://web.archive.org/web/20240621041419/https://therisingmajority.com/organizations/