Victoria Valenzuela: How organizers are addressing sexual violence in movement spaces
The revelations about Cesar Chavez underscore the need to reckon with sexual abuse by changing organizing cultures and following workers’ lead.
Marianne Dhenin: Nurses Forge Alliances to Protect Patients From Trump’s Immigration Crackdown
“The idea was to build a rapid response team that is specific for the hospital.”
Jodi Vandenberg-Daves: The Minneapolis protests recall a long lineage of women’s peace movements
We saw in Minneapolis what we’ve long seen in U.S. peace movements: Women bringing innovation, moral clarity, caregiving and an insistence on justice.
Patricia A. Nugent: Missing Who I Was
This sign hit me hard today. I, too, miss who I was before…when I could watch the news, sleep at night, find time for creative expression. Feel unabashed joy.
Elise Kazanjian: Reading at Bird & Beckett book store in San Francisco
We pick our fights. We
march for rights. We
thousands strong. We
replace wrong.
Shelley Inglis: How to prevent elections from being stolen − lessons from around the world for the US
Citizens of many affected countries have learned various techniques to help protect the integrity of their elections and democracy that may be helpful to Americans today.
Zia Kandler and Moira Birss: How to build emergency response systems for the long haul
The international accompaniment movement teaches us that to sustain an emergency response to state violence, we must build durable, collective and supportive structures now.
Rivera Sun: 10 rules of resistance for #ICEOut
Americans can learn from the anti-Nazi leaflet “10 Commandments for Danes” by denying ICE everything it needs to function.
Rashida James-Saadiya: Anti-ICE Organizing Is Creating Counter-Institutions Based on Care
The task now is not to burn brighter or faster, but to build the collective capacity to withstand what’s coming.
Liz Theoharis & Sam Theoharis: The Young Organizers Survival Corps
Despite a seemingly endless barrage of think pieces bemoaning the fickleness and apathy of the young, teenagers and young adults have been at the forefront of every significant struggle of this moment.
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.
