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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

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

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

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

Patricia A. Nugent: Scenes from a Tesla Takedown

When I first heard about it, I knew I’d go. I’ve been showing up for more than fifty years, starting with the Vietnam war.

April 1, 2025 · 13 Comments

Baron Wormser: Dissident

    Of necessity, the path of the dissident, since it depends on the exactions of conscience, is a solitary one. I think of Henry David Thoreau’s night in a jail … Continue reading

March 30, 2025 · 17 Comments

Rebecca Gordon: Trump Rages to Snuff Out Democracy’s Candle

Allow me to stipulate that I do not wish to die. In fact, had anyone consulted me about the construction of the universe, I would have made my views on … Continue reading

March 27, 2025 · 9 Comments

Sam Carliner: How pro-Palestine student activists are fighting increasing repression

As universities and the government crack down on the student movement for Palestine, activists are organizing broad campaigns to get their charges dropped.    

March 17, 2025 · 5 Comments

Robert Cording: Pilgrims

a girl
dancing topless on a table
at the West End bar
more than fifty years ago,
and Richie Havens singing Freedom,
Freedom, Freedom from a jukebox,
everyone clapping their hands

February 18, 2025 · 15 Comments

George Yancy: Remember What Audre Lorde Told Us — The Oppressor Doesn’t Determine What’s True

To navigate these terrible times, we need Audre’s Lorde’s audacity: Protect the public sphere. Refuse to be silenced.

February 12, 2025 · 6 Comments

Bernie Sanders: Will Defeating the Oligarchs Be Easy? Of Course Not

If there was ever a moment when progressives needed to communicate our vision to the people of our country, this is that time. Despair is not an option.

January 1, 2025 · 6 Comments

Vicky Bond: The Commercial Fishing Industry Is Destroying Vital Marine Ecosystems

The unsustainable practice of killing fish for human consumption not only harms them but countless other marine animals die as “unintended” bycatch in reckless fishing operations or lose their lives to the fishing industry’s widespread ocean pollution and habitat destruction, which is damaging our oceans beyond recovery.

December 19, 2024 · 5 Comments

Robert F. Barsky: Noam Chomsky at 96

The linguist, educator, philosopher and public thinker has had a massive intellectual and moral influence.

December 7, 2024 · 8 Comments

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