Newest Activism

• Garcia: Invest in Communities, Not Cops

  Reclaim the Block, a coalition of local organizations, looks to a future where Minneapolis divests from the police department and invests in community-based solutions and safety
• People's Campaign: The PPC Demands National Debate on Poverty

  When 250,000 people die every year from poverty, it is time for the presidential candidates to make good on the promises they made during the Poor People’s Campaign Moral Action Congress in June 2019 to push for a debate on poverty
• Burns: Oakland’s Moms 4 Housing Evicted by Giant Corporation

  The California company that evicted a group of homeless mothers from a West Oakland, California, home this week is the force behind a sprawling national home-flipping operation
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  MLK: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in His Own Words

  While Dr. King is primarily remembered as a civil rights leader, he also championed the cause of the poor and organized the Poor People’s Campaign to address issues of economic justice
• Pierre: Learning from King’s Last Campaign

  Before he died, Martin Luther King, Jr. joined a campaign to unify working people of all races. Today, nothing could be more powerful
• Levin: The Teamster Revolt Against the Hoffa Era

  Rank-and-file activists are mobilizing against contract concessions, taking over local unions, and building a coalition to transform the union
• Cross: Militarized Eviction

  We look at the fight for affordable housing in the Bay Area with Moms 4 Housing, the unhoused and insecurely housed mothers who were evicted Tuesday by a militarized police force from a vacant home they had been occupying in Oakland, California
• Madeloni: Strikes Are Hard Work

  A national strike will involve a protracted struggle. It will take serious preparation. It will take serious power. It’s something to build towards—one step at a time
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  Podur: Cracking Up the Walls of War and Authoritarianism

  The sustained protests in Colombia are part of a larger trend against austerity and endless war
• Rockhill: France’s Strike

  Another Symptom of Neoliberalism’s Legitimation Crisis
• Barber: We Can’t Be Silent Anymore

  As the final Democratic debate ahead of the Iowa caucuses took place Tuesday night in Des Moines, Iowa, more than 100 protesters gathered outside the debate venue at Drake University to demand a televised presidential debate on poverty
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  Prashad: Indian Students Stand Against the Far-Right

  It is hard to watch these young people speak with such confidence and with such chilling precision about their desire to hurt those with whom they did not agree
• Isser: Climate Activists Can’t Afford to Ignore Labor

  A Shuttered Refinery in Philly Shows Why
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  Greeman: France at the Crossroads

  The nationwide general strike in France, now entering its record seventh week, seems to be approaching its crisis point
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  Cole: Challenge to Trump

  Muqtada al-Sadr & Iraqi Shiite leaders Call for a Million-Man March against US Military Occupation
• Fife: Moms 4 Housing

  Meet the Oakland Mothers Facing Eviction After Two Months Occupying Vacant House
• Narasimhaiah: Unraveling India’s authoritarian nightmare

  As nationwide protests and a general strike have paralyzed the country, the oppressed and exploited peoples of India deserve our solidarity in their fight against authoritarian Hindu nationalism
• Rockhill: Understanding France’s General Strike

  Yellow Vests and Global Class Warfare
• Semel: Can Workers Still Use the National Labor Relations Board?

  Trump’s appointees to the NLRB are eroding the very rights the agency is charged with protecting. Their template for action is not the goals set forth in the Act, but the wish list of the Chamber of Commerce
• Neuhausen: “A Project for Life” in Mexico City

  A housing movement on the fringes of Mexico City offers an example of the fruits of breaking with the clientelism that has long dominated Mexican politics to build autonomous alternatives in its communities