Yael Bromberg and Eirik Cheverud: Punishing Dissent in the Age of Trump — What’s in a Riot?
On the morning of President Trump’s Inauguration, police trapped and arrested over 230 people. Some were anti-Trump demonstrators; some were not. The next day, federal prosecutors charged them all with … Continue reading
Laurel Wales: 2017 Elections Mark the Dawn of Change
What a difference a year makes! Waking up after Election Day in 2017 is incredibly different from last November, when we faced the prospect of a misogynist-in-chief in the White … Continue reading
Abby Zimet: Miss Peru Beauty Queens Go Rogue
. Talk about resistance in unlikely places. Facing horrific rates of violence against women – the week before, the hashtag #PeruPaisdeVioladores (Peru Country of Rapists) was trending – the contestants … Continue reading
Ellen McGrath Smith: Stay Here and Keep Watch With Me
Sane Soldiering in the Information Wars Incoming! Late in the day on Friday afternoons, when many of us used to look forward to some downtime alone or with friends or … Continue reading
Aviva Chomsky: How (Not) to Challenge Racist Violence
Protesters are eager to expend extraordinary energy denouncing small-scale racist actors. But what about the large-scale racist actors? As white nationalism and the so-called “alt-Right” have gained prominence in the … Continue reading
Video: Noam Chomsky and Martin Luther King on building a resistance movement
. . As widespread oppression and violence rise up, people of good conscience wonder what we can do to help move the country in the right direction. It is natural … Continue reading
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
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
