Newest Activism

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  Ellner: The French Protests and the Politics of Alliances

  What can be learned?
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  Goodman: Thousands Protest at U.N. Climate Summit

  This week Democracy Now! is broadcasting from the U.N. climate...
• Louis: Can the Yellow Vests Speak?

  This movement must continue, for it embodies something right, urgent, and profoundly radical, because faces and voices that are usually reduced to invisibility are finally visible and audible
• Stangler: What’s Really Behind France’s Yellow Vest Protest?

  It’s not just about the fuel tax; it’s about anger at ever-increasing burdens on the working class
• Steering Committee: Taking on the GM Shutdown

  Unifor, Oshawa and Community Control
• Mercier: Are the Gilets Jaunes Today’s Sans-Culottes?

  From the Island of La Reunion to the Napoleonic symbol...
• Ram: Yellow fury

  A SPECTRE is haunting France, its colour a vivid fluorescent...
• La Duke: Call for Indigenous-Led “Green New Deal”

  Interview on the indigenous-led fight against destructive oil pipelines and the revolutionary potential of the Green New Deal
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  Wittner: Reviving the Nuclear Disarmament Movement

  Although a widespread environmental movement has developed to save the planet from accelerating climate change, no counterpart has emerged to take on the rising danger of nuclear disaster
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  Lakey: Midterms show way to victory is through vision, not reactivity

  Even more people would support us if we activists organized more direct action campaigns led with vision. The very process of envisioning calls us to a bigger picture than we might otherwise have
• Dianara: We’re With the Rebels

  France's "yellow vest" protests against fuel prices weren't organized by the Left. But the fight to widen their demands is key to blocking the growth of Marine Le Pen's far right
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  Prashad: Oil industry squabbles

  What the G20 and OPEC meetings mean for the political relations, economies, and people of the world
• Davis: Why the working poor are demanding Macron’s resignation

  Macron’s economic reforms are leaving people stranded at the roadside, broken down, and with only their gilets jaunes to protect them
• Jorden: Yellow Vest Protest in Paris

  Taxing the Working Class for Climate Change
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  Greeman: Yellow Vest Protest Movement Exposes Inequality

  Ignored by Macron, distorted by the media, courted by the Right, snubbed by the Left, the self-organized mass movement known as the Yellow Vests is seriously challenging the political and economic order in France
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  Sanders: Change always comes from the bottom

  Full Bernie Sanders Speech on Economic Justice, Healthcare, Opposing Trump & Ending the War in Yemen
• DiMaggio: Paraeducators Join the Teacher Uprising

  The 115 paradeucators in this small coastal city, just across the water from Canada, assist with everything from reading lessons to recess
• Kay: The true cost of austerity: lessons from Greece

  The real lessons from Greece’s economic crisis can be learned not from the toxic legacy of austerity, but from movements for social justice and food sovereignty
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  Brecher: Climate Jobs for All

  Building Block for the Green New Deal
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  Speri: ICE Cracks Down on Its Critics

  Over the last year, a handful of activists from New York to Washington state have found themselves in the crosshairs of ICE