Newest Activism

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  Benjamin: Activists Protect DC Venezuelan Embassy from US-supported Coup

  Calling ourselves the Embassy Protection Collective, we have been working in the embassy during the day, holding educational events every evening, making banners and signs, and sleeping on couches at night
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  Cockburn: What Revolutionaries Have Learned Since the Arab Spring

  Two very different political waves are sweeping through the Middle East and north Africa
• Hensby: Our Climate Emergency and ‘Extinction Rebellion’

  Disruption and arrests can bring social change
• Hamouchene: Welcome to the new Algerian revolution

  While the first wave of the revolutions ended in defeat, it was sure to be back in Sudan and now Algeria with enormous and persistent protest movements
• Symborski: New York City nurses threatened to strike—and won

  What the Alliance had once sternly denied the nurses had been won
• Contributors: International Rebellion Update #6

  A New Phase Begins
• Bennaidja: Algerians Adopt Civil Resistance to Push for Political Change

  Since late February, Algerians have been protesting every Friday on the streets of the capital Algiers and other major cities to demand the departure of the regime that has ruled the country since independence in 1962
• Blakeley: How millennial socialism went global

  US-UK activists are forging new ties, by sharing expertise on communications, policy and campaigning
• : International Rebellion Update #5

  Police turn Pirates: The Pink Boat is Lost
• Choudhury: Modern-Day COINTELPRO

  Interview on FBI targeting of black activists
• Royle: What kind of climate movement do we need?

  The movement over climate change needs to be driven from below. It needs to threaten governments with revolution if they don’t give us reforms
• Sklaw: The Youth Leading Nicaragua’s Uprising, One Year Later

  A year after Nicaragua’s massive uprising broke out, youth activists recognize that beyond ousting President Daniel Ortega, their generation must find a new way of doing politics in the country
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  Kolahi: Principles vs. Strategies

  Discussing, debating or even disagreeing about strategy is healthy. But doing so respectfully, separate from personal attacks on others’ principles or intentions will help the long-term sustainability of winning meaningful change
• Chesler: Making American Schools Less Great Again

  Teachers like me will be stepping out of our classrooms not because we don’t want to teach, but because we do
• : International Rebellion Update #4

  Business As Usual?
• : International Rebellion Update #3

  Our tactics are working. Our values are holding
• Taylor: Thousands block roads in Extinction Rebellion protests across London

  Climate group occupies major landmarks in campaign that could last several days
• Farrell: Climate Attorney Superglued Herself Outside Shell’s U.K. HQ

  We’re not prepared to stand by and watch us waste the very small window that we have left
• Arria: Stop & Shop Strike Shows There’s Still Power in Unions

  The striking Stop & Shop workers have received solidarity from faith groups, other unions and local lawmakers
• Fernández Campbell: The largest private sector strike in years

  More than 30,000 grocery store employees in the northeastern US are refusing to return to work