Newest Activism
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Loach: If We Don’t Understand Class Struggle, We Don’t Understand Anything
Interview on populism, the gig economy, and the importance of transnational solidarity in his movies and beyond
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Paynter: How a Detroit Community Overcomes a Lack of City Services
A range of neighbor-to-neighbor efforts address basic needs, from healthcare to food access, that are going unmet by local government agencies
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Paul: Reclaiming Their Rights One Village At a Time
The answer is to stand united and vigilant against any possible landgrab efforts
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DiMaggio: Building a Rapid-Response Network to Defend Immigrant Workers
As the Trump administration cracks down on undocumented immigrants, it’s...
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Cohen: Elite Party or Party of the People?
Democrats Gather in Chicago
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Owliaei: Lancaster Shows How to Say No to Geo Group
A Pennsylvania county goes up against a giant of the private prison industry, and comes out victorious
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Feffer: The Best of All Possible Worlds?
The powerlessness of positive thinking in the age of Trump.
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Olson: Are We Governed by Secondary Psychopaths
Political struggles against empathy-numbing neoliberal ideology and the economic system it serves can create conditions that enhance the flourishing of empathy and love, the foundation for our better selves
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Burley: As the far-right descends, police target counter-protesters
As anger around the continuing far-right street action and police overreach grows, it is likely that this groundswell in Portland — and across the country, in what has been given the hashtag #AllOutAugust — will only escalate
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Baroud: Why Solidarity Boats to Gaza Succeed
The power and effectiveness of this kind of solidarity goes even beyond Gaza and Palestine
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Glick: A Week to Remember in the Climate Fight
A FERC which is no longer a rubber-stamp for the gas industry would be huge
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Zeese: Our Opponents’ Actions Show We’re Winning
Transformation is on the horizon if we remain clear in our vision for economic, racial and environmental justice, pull people to the movement from the power structure and undermine the tactics of those trying to co-opt, mislead and divide
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Why don’t we all aid the aims of every valid priority, not just with lip service, but with strategic care and sustained commitment?
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Prashad: Confrontation in Dhaka
The Bangladesh government clamps down on dissent and democratic challenges
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Levin: Berkeley police publish activists’ names and photos
Unusual release of arrested demonstrators’ identities could fuel harassment and abuse
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With companies fighting reorganization, it’ll take a united front to get the private waste industry to clean up its act
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Becerril: How Gold Mining Companies Stifle Opposition in Peru
Multinational mining corporations in northern Peru have devised a number of strategies for suppressing environmental activism and protest, from strategic investment to media relations to outright intimidation and repression
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Cervantes: International travel & changing the narrative on violence
With nonviolence, one must recognize that the ultimate resource is within oneself and others
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Meghelli: Museum showcases Washington, DC’s long history of activism
Our ultimate hope is that people will leave better informed and inspired to engage more with these issues
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Fletcher: Zohra Drif’s Memoir of a Woman Freedom Fighter
In her actions as a militant, Drif casts aside the romanticization of revolution
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A list of events, activities, books, music and more for activists
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: On The Crest Of A Strike Wave
To build on West Virginia’s success, we must be reminded that no victory is assured, and that we are fighting enemies of extraordinary power
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Emanuele: Red State Organizing in the Age of Trump
Reflections on the sort of organizing work I’m currently doing in Northwest Indiana, where I live and work. I hope people will find some of my insights interesting and useful.
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An independent Third Force must be multifaceted with the capacity to utilize community organizing, campaigns around issues, protests, marches, demonstrations, boycotts, elections and policy advocacy to advance a vision/mission and agenda for transformative change
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Daniels: Dr. Ron Daniels Delivers his Final Lecture
A talk on his political world view and on his vision and priorities for IBW moving forward.
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Graham: New Student Movement Seeks to Change Hopkins from Within
A student-led group called Youth Against War and Racism is partnering with the community to lead a fight against Hopkins' connection to government agencies like the CIA and end its role in military research
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Flanders: Workers, Wildcats & New Models for Labor Organizing
Interview on worker wins, challenges, and some new models for organizing
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Chavez: Farmworkers Bring Human Rights Fight to Wendy’s
Dozens of farmworkers with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers have entered their last day of a 5-day fast
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