Video: Laura Nyro sings “Save the Country”
. Come on, people, come on, children Come on down to the glory river. Gonna wash you up and wash you down, Gonna lay the devil down, gonna lay that … Continue reading
W.J. Astore: The Trump Cabinet of Billionaires and Generals
There’s an obvious trend in Trump’s cabinet picks: billionaires and generals. The billionaires favor private enterprise, capitalism unconstrained by regulations (especially those pesky environmental ones), and a view of the … Continue reading
Michael Moore: Call to Action — Disrupt Trump’s Inauguration
Call for a bold mobilization against the inauguration of Donald Trump on January 20, 2017: On Friday, January 20, 2017, Donald Trump will be inaugurated as President of the United … Continue reading
Jose Padua: The Wall and What Surrounds It
I’m thinking that someone else has probably already written a poem about building a wall around Donald Trump’s penis so I’m going to write about the leaves this fall; the … Continue reading
Chard deNiord: Prophecy Against Those
They will grow ass’s ears and stand and stand like guards at the funerals of their own mothers. They will forget history as if it were a bad memory they … Continue reading
Rebecca Solnit: Hope in Dark Times
This has been a truly remarkable decade for movement-building, social change, and deep, profound shifts in ideas, perspective, and frameworks for broad parts of the population (and, of course, backlashes … Continue reading
Michael Simms: Trump is attacking my family. And yours.
When I went back to Llano, Texas for my sister’s funeral a dozen years ago, I was surprised that the Baptist church was full of Latinos. But then I realized … Continue reading
Micah White: How do we resist Trump?
. American activists must move from detached indignation to revolutionary engagement by using the techniques of social movement creation to dominate elections. Concretely speaking, activists must reorient all efforts around … Continue reading
Video: Mni Wiconi — The Stand at Standing Rock
. This gorgeous short film features water protectors from the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and allies trying to stop the 1,100-mile Dakota Access Pipeline – DAPL. Interviews in the film include … Continue reading
Vincent Spina: Cosmology, Standing Rock and the Dakota Access Pipeline
More than sacred burial grounds. more than water, more than the ecology itself, Native American resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline may spring from a world view thousands of years … Continue reading
Daniel R. Cobb: Trump and the Criminality of Climate Change
If someone threw buckets of gasoline on the front and back doors and the windows of a home and lit it on fire in the early morning, those sleeping inside … Continue reading
George Monbiot: The Deep History Behind Trump’s Rise
How a ruthless network of super-rich ideologues killed choice and destroyed people’s faith in politics. The events that led to Donald Trump’s election started in England in 1975. At a … Continue reading
Michael Simms: Going Deaf
Now is the time for drowsy tanagers. -– E.S. . First I lost the tick of snowflakes hitting glass. Then the sound of the cat’s tongue running over her fur. … Continue reading
Daniel R. Cobb: Apologia
To all people of color, to Latinos and African Americans, to the refugees fleeing war and persecution, to immigrants from around the world, To Muslims and Jews, to those of … Continue reading
