Leslie Anne Mcilroy: Be Quiet
The secret police
wore shirts that said “secret police,”
which makes one wonder.
Michael Silberman: 5 Ways New Movement Leaders Are Effecting Change
The Parkland students and others are reinventing models for people-powered activism that adapts to today’s rapid pace of change. . It’s hard to think of anything more embarrassing than throwing … Continue reading
Hilary Wainwright: The spirit of 1968 is inextinguishable – even 50 years later
This rebellious era shaped radical activists – and aggressive capitalists. What can we learn from 1968, for democratic change today? Indignados protest, 2011. Photo: Fotomovimiento/Flickr. CC-BY-2.0. . Capitalist adventurer Richard Branson … Continue reading
Belle Chesler: Students as Teachers
Facing the World Adults Are Wrecking During the first week of May 1963, more than 800 African-American students walked out of their classrooms and into the streets of Birmingham, Alabama, … Continue reading
Abby Zimet: Still Following the Money
. The woke kids are still at it. Days before a planned National School Walkout to mark the anniversary of the Columbine shootings, Parkland survivor and firebrand David Hogg has … Continue reading
Abby Zimet: The Tools To Make A Change
Memorably marching for their lives. Reuters photo. Seeking to keep up the momentum to oust politicians in the blood-soaked pockets of the NRA, voting registration activists with HeadCount signed up … Continue reading
Video: Operatico Politico — NRA Protest Song
. Operatico Politico gives us a new protest song for the March For Our Lives on March 24th! Please like and share widely! Lyrics and guitar chords here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/traditi… Email … Continue reading
Nora Biette-Timmons and James Burnett: The Parkland Kids’ Gun Reform Platform, Explained
In an online petition, and in testimony by one of their leaders to a shadow congressional hearing organized by Democrats in Washington, the Stoneman Douglas students galvanizing the new teen movement against gun … Continue reading
Randall Amster: Young America
Perhaps we will someday look back on this time in a manner similar to how Gandhi saw India a century ago, on the cusp of a mass mobilization aimed at … Continue reading
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