Gail Ablow: Making Change — Gabe Gonzalez
. When federal agents began cracking down on undocumented immigrants in the Chicago area, Gabe Gonzalez launched a rapid-response network of neighbors to block them. The city of Chicago sued … Continue reading
Jon Queally: White Supremacists demonstrate at U. of Virginia. Deadly violence ensues.
Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe declared a state of emergency Saturday as far-right groups and counter-protesters clashed on the streets of Charlottesville. A vehicle plowed through a crowd of peaceful protesters in … Continue reading
Isaiah J. Poole: On the Road From Protest to Power — A Rising Tide
The millions who gathered in Washington and around the country for the historic Women’s March, one day after Donald Trump’s inauguration, made an indisputable statement: Trump may have won the … Continue reading
Arlene Weiner: Wordless
My mother’s magazines advised “togetherness,” advertised Simplicity patterns for matching mother-and-daughter dresses, asked “Can This Marriage Survive?” I found Popular Science, admired the clear lines and cheerful mien … Continue reading
Doug Anderson: It Ain’t Over
Some things are over before they’re over. A bad marriage. A bad war. It got so a squad would go out, call in checkpoints as if on the move, sit … Continue reading
Rachel Krantz: An Inconvenient Sequel Doesn’t Talk About Animal Agriculture—and That’s Absurd
When I spotted fellow vegan James Cromwell in line for food at an advance screening of An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, I couldn’t help but try to talk to … Continue reading
Julia Conley: Trump Threatens ‘Fire and Fury’ against North Korea
If North Korea makes any more threats to the U.S., “they will be met with fire, fury, and frankly power the likes of which the world has never seen before.” — … Continue reading
Video: Never Again (a tribute to Hiroshima and Nagasaki)
. During the final stage of World War Two, the United States dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively. … Continue reading
Patricia Youngblood: Two West Virginia Poems
five hundred mountains over 500 mountains in Appalachia have been leveled by mountaintop removal mining, more than 1,000 miles of streams poisoned and buried in mine waste . the … Continue reading
Appalachian Voices: Mountaintop Removal 101
Mountaintop removal is any method of surface coal mining that destroys a mountaintop or ridgeline, whether or not the mined area will be returned to what is legally described as … Continue reading
Video: As White House Ramps Up Attacks on Free Press, NRA Issues Warning to New York Times
. Conservative commentator tells newspaper, “We’re coming for you.” The National Rifle Association (NRA) drew attention this weekend after its newest ad went viral. The New York Times is the … Continue reading
Jose Padua: Because Even in the Darkest of Days Revolution Is a Movement Towards the Light
On the same day in August 1967 when American Nazi Party leader George Lincoln Rockwell was killed, my younger brother was born: one bad guy down, one good guy up … Continue reading
Video: The Como Mamas “Count Your Blessings”
. Old school Gospel music from the album Come Upstairs by The Como Mamas, produced by Daptone Records. The Como Mamas — Ester Smith Mae, Della Daniels, and Angela Taylor — are three … Continue reading
Jocelyn Frye and Michele L. Jawando: Leveraging the Power of Black Women
On the eve of the 2016 presidential election, pundits and political watchers opined on whether the Obama coalition—the multiracial, multiethnic, cross-class coalition made up of African Americans, Latinos, women, young people, … Continue reading
