Activism
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Newest Activism
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Flowers: Small Acts Can Become A Power No Government Can Suppress
Examples of the tremendous power people have to force changes and create support networks in their communities when they organize together
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Koehler: Taking War Personally
“For Washington, it seems that whatever the problem is, the answer is bombing.”
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Levin: Rodney King: 30 Years After Brutal Beating, LAPD ‘Still Corrupt and Violent’
Advocates who lived through the riots are now fighting to defund the police and dismantle unions that thwart accountability
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Granger: Houston demonstration demands, “Fix our broken pipes, no more airstrikes!”
Texans need relief from the pandemic and from the damage caused by Winter Storm Uri now. End U.S. imperial warfare and use the resources to help suffering people
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Abunimah: EU backs ICC after Netanyahu’s “anti-Semitism” smear
After years-long delays and decades of waiting for justice, Palestinians are at last seeing their quest to hold Israel accountable and check its crimes bearing fruit
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We’re in a life or death battle and we need all hands on deck. That means fewer cartographers of the apocalypse and more strategists for the revolution
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Sawant: Why I’m Joining Democratic Socialists of America
The disasters we’ve seen in the past year could become far worse unless socialists and the working class rise to the historic tasks in front of us
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August: New York politicians push bill to ‘kill’ rent cancellation movement, organizers fight back
On Feb. 28, tenant organizers in New York City demonstrated outside the home of New York State Sen. Brian Kavanaugh in Manhattan to protest his sponsorship of a bill which bails out landlords, not tenants
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Mitchell: Organizing the Multiracial Working Class
If working people fail to see real material distinctions between life under Trump and life under Biden, they’ll look for an alternative to the party in power
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Staff: Richland, Washington protesters demand ‘No kids in cages’
On Feb. 27 more than 50 protesters gathered in Richland, Washington to demand that Pres. Joe Biden close the ICE concentration camps, release the detained children and abolish ICE.
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Fitz: From the Murder of Berta Cáceres to Dam Disaster in Uttarakhand
Two stories about the consequences of the insatiable greed of capitalism for more energy
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Kim: Asian American Communities Organize Against Rise in Hate Crimes
More Policing Is Not the Answer
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Win: A revolution in the making is taking place in Myanmar
Resistance to last month's military coup is doing away with the country's long-standing divisions of ethnicity, religion, domicile and occupation
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Chediac: 7 lies Amazon tells about the union
On average, union workers earn 27 percent more than nonunion workers
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Ramirez: Tyson Poultry Workers Say Their Bosses Have No Regard for Their Lives
Interview with a worker at a Tyson poultry plant in Arkansas about his fear of getting sick, what Tyson thinks of its workers, and how long it's been since he received any hazard pay.
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Raut: Pushing the tempo at Mumbai’s farm sit-in
At Mumbai's Azad Maidan, at a farmers' protest in late January, dhumsi and tarpa players from Adivasi communities in Maharashtra's Dahanu taluka opposed the new farm laws through song and dance
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Lindahl: Amazon union struggle takes hold in Southern state with radical labor history
The historic campaign, if successful, could spark a wave of unionization around the country
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Lin: Myanmar Workers and Unions on the Front Lines in Fight Against Coup
Workers in Myanmar have demonstrated that direct actions are powerful and they work
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Wilson: After Seven-Year Battle, Massachusetts Comcast Techs Win First Contract
After voting to form a union seven and a half years ago, Comcast technicians at the Fairhaven, Massachusetts, garage finally have a first contract
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Lobet: California’s Small Towns Ready to Fight Big Oil Over Air Quality
After organizing for three years, Lamont and Arvin, two rural communities in the heart of California’s oilfields have won a direct say in reducing the air pollution from oil, gas and agriculture production
ZMag Activism
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Chomsky: Class Struggle or Get it in the Neck, Part 1
Unless working people, the general population, take part in the class struggle, they’re going to get it in the neck
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Kolhatkar: Millions of India’s Farmers Are in a Fight for Their Economic Lives
Photo by PradeepGaurs/Shutterstock.com India’s farmers are revolting against Prime Minister...
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Cook: I Am Greta isn’t about climate change. It’s about the elusiveness of sanity in an insane world
We are in an ideological bubble—and one that will burst as surely as the financial kind. Thunberg is that still, small voice of sanity outside the bubble
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Chomsky: Trump Has Revealed the Extreme Fragility of American Democracy
I think both Trump and Trumpism will remain with us for a long time, both the individual himself and the poisonous currents he has unleashed
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Flowers: The Imperative To Achieve National Improved Medicare For All
This time around, the “Yes we can” slogan so common under Obama must mean that, yes, the people can overcome the plutocrats and put people over profits
Activism Video
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Sanders: Amazon Workers in Alabama Are Fighting for a Union
The fight you are waging will send a message to workers all across the country that if they stand up, stand together, and fight, they can win
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Emanuele: Indiana Activist with a Community Center gets things done
Interview on sociopolitical issues that needlessly divide us