Sarah van Gelder: After the Devastation of Trump’s First Year, These Popular Rebellions Offer Hope
After the Devastation of Trump’s First Year, These Popular Rebellions Offer Hope
Umme Hoque & Daniel Hunter: How We Pressured an Airline to End Its Contract With ICE
Success required a mix of local and national organizing, direct action, and political pressure alongside the better-known boycott.
Audio: Dr. Martin Luther King — Beyond Vietnam: A Time To Break Silence
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.
Erin Wax: How 12-step programs can help build healthier movements
The 12-step method that began with Alcoholics Anonymous is a form of mutual aid that can help movement organizers take better care of each other.
Julia Conley: Greta Thunberg Arrested in UK for Supporting Palestine Action and Opposing Gaza Genocide
Thunberg joined a call for British officials to meet with the lawyers of Palestine Action protesters who have been on a hunger strike in prison.
Patricia A. Nugent: The Opposite of Love
“You are abnormally nervy,” he texted. Since it didn’t exactly read like a compliment, his words caused me to reflect on how my activism may be perceived.
Linda Belans: The mirror doesn’t lie
Do I look fat
in this outrage?
puffed up?
Fortunato Salazar: Good Was Done
you did good you lifted the flat
of your hand against injustice
Michelle Zacarias: In Southern California, Small Groups of Activists Quietly Undermine ICE Operations
Organizers confront ICE wherever they can be found, from the hotels where agents sleep to the streets they patrol.
George Yancy: Authoritarian Wave in US Shows Democracy’s Fragility, South African Scholar Says
Trump’s attacks are buttressed by his commitment to an authoritarian playbook that wallows in weaponizing differences against the backdrop of creating historical myths — in this case about the supremacy of whiteness.
Video: A City Fights Back | How LA Defends Itself From ICE
Under Donald Trump’s administration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has stepped up arrests and detention of immigrants around the United States. This is how Unión del Barrio is fighting back in Los … Continue reading
Cynthia Kaufman: Jewish Safety and the Weaponization of Antisemitism
The conflation of criticisms of Israel with antisemitism makes Jews less safe.
Abby Zimet: The Shambolic Grifter In the Arena, Daring Greatly
As King Cheeto lies, scams, babbles and scurries to escape the furor over his pedophile bestie, some fierce unlikely heroes have emerged to call bullshit.
Ryan Eckes: memo for labor
you cannot separate the job from the house from the rent from the earth from the food from the healthcare from the water from the transit from the war from … Continue reading
