Newest Activism

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  Zeese: Earth Day: Conflict Over The Future Of The Planet

  In order for people to create transformative changes, we need a well-educated activist community
• Watts: Goldman prize awarded to South African women

  Winners of the world’s leading environmental award faced down Vladimir Putin and the country’s recently deposed leader, Jacob Zuma, to overturn a multibillion-dollar nuclear deal
• Davis-Cohen: Police Quietly Backed Anti-Protest Bills in at Least 8 States

  And that may be the tip of the iceberg
• Rhoades: Building alternatives to mining in Colombia

  Interview with local activists and businesspeople determined to kick the mining industry out of their town
• Barrows-friedman: Barnard students vote for divestment

  In a major victory for the Palestinian rights movement on...
• Finnie: Why Young People Are Joining Unions Again

  Young people have redirected their activism toward different kinds of outlets, where their efforts may actually bring about tangible results. Outlets like unions
• White: Arizona teachers vote to strike

  Arizona teachers must learn the lessons of the Oklahoma and West Virginia strikes—which were betrayed by the unions—and elect rank-and-file committees to take the conduct of the struggle out of the hands of the AEA
• Gellatly: Fearless Cities

  Municipalism is concerned as much with how outcomes are achieved as with the outcomes themselves
• Facet: A feminist outpouring shakes the Spanish state

  Interview on the background to the uprising and what it means for future organizing
• Bryant: Why Teacher Uprisings May Hit Blue States Too

  The Colorado teachers’ plans to walk out of school is a strong sign they’ve had it with state government inaction on funding. There’s also a sign many Colorado Democrats feel that way too
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  Zeese: Protest & Political Activity Increases

  The long term impact of this new activism is hard to predict
• Cooper: Why Europe needs Corbyn

  Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party can lead the way for a new left politics in Europe
• Contributors: Transportation strikes, university protests continue to shake France

  To Macron’s dismay, the popular movements show no signs of...
• Chesler: Students as Teachers

  Facing the World Adults Are Wrecking
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  Bacon: Salinas farm workers march to oppose immigration raids

  Protesting immigration enforcement is part of defending farm laborers generally, both union and non-union
• Parfitt: Wave of Militant Teacher Strikes Has Gone Global

  The battle to protect public education is heating up across the globe, and struggles in one place are feeding into struggles in another
• Baniewicz: Peaceful Protesters Could Face 20 Years in Prison

  Louisiana joined the growing number of states across the nation with similar "critical infrastructure" bills moving swiftly through the courts and onto governors' desks
• Huerta: I Am Not Your “Wetback”

  It’s long overdue for Chicanas/os and Mexicans to unite and reject all racist rhetoric, actions and policies by American leaders and millions of its citizens against our people
• Unitario de Lucha: Final Declaration of the 2018 Peoples’ Summit

  Hundreds of popular organisations and social movements from across Latin America and the Caribbean met this past weekend in the Summit of the Peoples in Lima, Peru
• Fraser: Class Dismissed

  Class Conflict in Red State America