Dr. Carol Paris: It’s Time for the Adults in This Nation To Talk Seriously About Medicare for All
With Trumpcare defeated, we can breathe a quick sigh of relief. But we cannot celebrate a return to the failed status quo. Hundreds of people slept overnight in cars, or … Continue reading
Leonard Steinhorn: Donald Trump’s War on the 1960s
Donald Trump and his supporters may be waging battles against the press, immigrants, voting rights, the environment, science, social welfare programs, Planned Parenthood and what they label political correctness and the … Continue reading
Helen Keller: Letter To Nazi Students Before They Burn Her Book (1933)
To the student body of Germany: History has taught you nothing if you think you can kill ideas. Tyrants have tried to do that often before, and the ideas have … Continue reading
Angele Ellis: On Hearing That FBI Anti-Terrorism Agents Spied on the Thomas Merton Center
For Molly Moore Rush Pacifism is dangerous. Thomas Merton, the Trappist monk who rose above his Seven-Storey Mountain to the Buddhist peaks of Nepal, was electrocuted by a faulty fan … Continue reading
Video: Neil Young premieres new protest song, “Children of Destiny”
“Stand up for what you believe / Resist the powers that be” Canadian rocker Neil Young and Promise of the Real have just released the video for their new Trump … Continue reading
Robert C. Koehler: Fire Burn, Caldron Bubble
America serves up its news in a caldron from hell, or so it sometimes seems. The fragments are all simmering in the same juice: bombs and drones and travel bans, … Continue reading
Angele Ellis: Federal Building
I enter through security as taxpayer, the needle’s eye of citizenship. Bag on the table, keys in a plastic container that could hold mail or explosives. The only way in … Continue reading
Libero Della Piana: When Protests Are Powerful, The Powerful Punish Protest
We are likely to see more State laws aimed at curbing protest. But we are going to see a lot more protest too. It’s our only option. When people feel … Continue reading
Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese: A Failing Empire
The United States is a failing empire: the domestic economy has fallen to a level equivalent to a developing nation for most of us while the stock markets, especially for weapons-makers, are … Continue reading
Nika Knight: Joan Baez Goes Viral With ‘Nasty Man,’ a Protest Song for the Trump Era
“Here’s a little song/about a man gone wrong/while building up his evil empire.” . Email subscribers may click on the title of this post to watch the video. Joan Baez, … Continue reading
UN: Americans’ Right to Protest is in Grave Danger Under Trump
At least 19 U.S. states have introduced bills that attack the right to protest since Donald Trump’s election as president, an “alarming and undemocratic” trend, U.N. human rights investigators said … Continue reading
Michael Simms: Saul Alinsky’s 13 strategies to take your community back from Trump
Saul Alinsky (1909 – 1972) is generally considered to be the founder of modern American community organizing. Alinsky focused on improving the living conditions of poor communities across America, especially the … Continue reading
Joan E. Bauer: Progress Street
For Halloween in 1960, I dressed as an election booth festooned with Kennedy stickers & buttons. If you’re a woman over 60 & someone says ‘coat hanger,’ you don’t … Continue reading
Gerald Fleming: To My Student Kenny, Before the Inauguration of Donald Trump
Who will speak these days, if not I, if not you? —Muriel Rukeyser . November 9, 2016 Mr. Fleming, I can’t believe what happened last night. I am shocked, … Continue reading
