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Rivera Sun: 10 rules of resistance for #ICEOut

Americans can learn from the anti-Nazi leaflet “10 Commandments for Danes” by denying ICE everything it needs to function.

February 17, 2026 · 9 Comments

Rashida James-Saadiya: Anti-ICE Organizing Is Creating Counter-Institutions Based on Care

The task now is not to burn brighter or faster, but to build the collective capacity to withstand what’s coming.

February 13, 2026 · 5 Comments

Theia Chatelle:  Indigenous-Led Collectives Are Keeping Minnesotan Communities Safe From ICE

Members of the American Indian Movement and the Many Shields Warrior Society are patrolling the streets of Minneapolis.

February 10, 2026 · 10 Comments

Liz Theoharis & Sam Theoharis: The Young Organizers Survival Corps

Despite a seemingly endless barrage of think pieces bemoaning the fickleness and apathy of the young, teenagers and young adults have been at the forefront of every significant struggle of this moment. 

February 5, 2026 · 8 Comments

Video: Bruce Springsteen | Streets Of Minneapolis 

This is the song heard round the world.

February 1, 2026 · 15 Comments

Chris Walker: Immigrant Children Lead Uprising at Texas Detention Center 

An uprising broke out at an immigrant jail in southern Texas on Saturday, with around 1,000 immigrants detained in the facility — many of them children — chanting “Libertad” and “Let us go,”

January 28, 2026 · 8 Comments

Abby Zimet: The Promised Land | When Fate Looks Upon You

OMG. We have landed in an inane, insane, bombastic Monty Python skit, slap-dash improvised by a sick vengeful child king churning through endless hissy fits.

January 22, 2026 · 6 Comments

Marc Jampole: The Recalcitrance of Police Unions

Police unions and minorities should be allies in the battle to reduce economic inequality.

June 17, 2020 · 1 Comment

William J. Astore: Warrior Cops When the Wars Come Home

America’s forever wars in distant lands have now come home.

June 10, 2020 · 1 Comment

Michael Simms: Minneapolis

He died in Minneapolis on an ordinary day,
A day we’ll all remember.
We can’t turn away. It was a day
Like this one, a Monday, in Spring.

June 9, 2020 · 6 Comments

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