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Paul Rogat Loeb: Reclaiming the Flag for No Kings Day

On Flag Day, Saturday June 14, more than 1,800 local demonstrations will challenge U.S. President Donald Trump’s North Korean-style military parade for his birthday with our defense of democracy.

June 13, 2025 · Leave a comment

Abby Zimet: A Sea Of Sorrow | Mindless Cruelty Remains the Point

Still held in a Louisiana detention center for the crime of denouncing the slaughter and starvation of Gazan children, Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil told a judge Thursday his deportation would likely mean death for him and his family.

May 27, 2025 · 5 Comments

Aliana Alexandra Coella Exclusa: Puerto Rico’s Resilient History Mirrors the Mangrove

Half of the world’s mangroves are in danger of disappearing. Ensuring their survival is essential to Caribbean resistance movements.

May 20, 2025 · 6 Comments

Abby Zimet: We Shall Not Be Moved Chap. 784

50 faith leaders gathered at the ICE facility to link their arms, block the entrance, demand information on conditions inside and declare, “This is not acceptable” – after which they were set upon by goons.

May 15, 2025 · 4 Comments

Marianne Dhenin: Educators Resist Trump’s Fascist Agenda

More than 49 million young people attend public schools in the United States, and they have all been thrust into the center of President Donald Trump’s regressive agenda as he moves to use education funding as political leverage.

May 13, 2025 · 8 Comments

Everett Rudolph: I’m a brand new activist—here’s what got me to join others in the streets

As a lifelong conservative, my turn to activism has given me insights into what we can do to bring others like me into the movement.

May 12, 2025 · 5 Comments

Nancy Kricorian: Applying Lessons From the Armenian Genocide to Gaza

All our institutions in the U.S. as well as in Europe—the government, the media, arts organizations, and the academy—with few exceptions, were colluding with and covering for what was recognizable as a genocide.

May 6, 2025 · 10 Comments

Nan Levinson: Seven-and-a-Half Propositions for Journalism in the Age of Trump

The Good and the Bad in Media Coverage Now

May 1, 2025 · 6 Comments

Mike Vargo: Living in the Republic of Unreality

The practice of living in unreality consists of three sub-practices: Denying real reality. Bingeing on pseudo-reality. And adopting a myth.

April 27, 2025 · 7 Comments

Davis Price, Ilima-Lei MacFarlane: Climate Resilience Is Sacred

As a tidal wave of authoritarianism crashes across the U.S., it may seem as if nothing is sacred. But in these moments of uncertainty, it is the sacred to which we must return. 

April 16, 2025 · 1 Comment

Molly Fisk: Early

Small towns at daybreak are so nostalgic:
the only thing missing’s a train whistle.
Good morning, America. Mercenaries
in Portland last night teargassed a wall
of mothers. How long will we remember?

April 14, 2025 · 17 Comments

Jeremy Brecher: What would a general strike in the US actually look like?

Calls for a general strike in the US are growing. It’s important to understand how to organize one, given their key role in overcoming tyrants around the world.

April 14, 2025 · 1 Comment

Arun Gupta: 10 Organizing Principles for Defeating Trumpism 2.0

Here are the organizing lessons I learned from movements for worker organizing, immigrant rights, Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, climate justice, Palestine solidarity, and abortion rights. These lessons may serve us well under Trump 2.0.

April 9, 2025 · 2 Comments

Jon Queally: Khanna Sounds Alarm as Thousands of Factory Workers Laid Off Amid Trump Tariff Chaos

“Imagine if federal worker unions and Democratic Party officials showed up at the plant gate of a company that was about to close its doors,” said one labor advocate. “Why aren’t the Democrats doing this?”

April 7, 2025 · 6 Comments

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