Newest Activism

• Cheung: Chicagoans Readying for Rent Strike

  Calling on city and landlords to provide relief amid coronavirus pandemic: ‘The hammer is going to drop’
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  Glick: Demonstrating During Pandemic Times

  “Car demonstrations” had people arriving in cars to an open parking lot area, standing outside at appropriate 6 feet or more apart distances, with organizers giving directions and instructions and coordinates to join a Whats App channel for communication purposes
• Husseini: #GeneralStrike?

  “It’s dawning on more people how critical their labor is and how little these corporations care about them. The veneer of we’re-going-to-take-care-of-you has dropped away"
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  Kelly: Vigil for Peace in Yemen, a New Norm

  Particularly now, with intense focus on U.S. health care, it’s timely to recognize that in the past five years U.S. supported Gulf Coalition airstrikes bombed Yemen’s health care facilities 83 times
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  Elbaum: Fight for Immediate Solutions; Fight for the Future

  COVID-19 is heightening the life-and-death consequences of economic, racial and other forms of inequality
• Haiven: No return to normal: for a post-pandemic liberation

  Today, new forms of solidarity, mutual aid, and common struggle are emerging in the pandemic. How will they shape tomorrow’s struggles for a post-capitalist world?
• Rabb: COVID-19 Green New Deal

  The COVID-19 mitigation effort presents an unexpected blueprint for what rapid change in the face of a climate crisis might look like. In fact, the current situation should give us hope in our ability to cope with rapid change and encourage us to recognize our resilience
• della Porta: Social movements in times of pandemic: another world is needed

  Faced with the glaring need for radical and complex transformation, social movements in times of crisis act differently from protests
• Garrity: When is a Logging Road “Not a Road”?

  The Alliance for the Wild Rockies is once again challenging the Forest Service’s destruction of our national forests, the streams they feed, and the wildlife for which they provide critical habitat
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  Ehrenreich: Barbara Ehrenreich Is Not an Optimist, but She Has Hope for the Future

  Interview about class, reporting, the coronavirus, and socialism
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  Emanuele: Mutual Aid, Political Organizing & Survival

  All of the problems that would normally exist in a deindustrialized Rust Belt city are compounded during a pandemic and economic crisis, so we're focusing on essential services right now
• Kaba: Solidarity Not Charity

  Mutual Aid & How to Organize in the Age of Coronavirus
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  Klein: Coronavirus Capitalism — and How to Beat It

  Source: The Intercept I’ve spent two decades studying the transformations...
• Binctin: What happens if you treat healthy school meals as a public service?

  Despite what the dominant neoliberal dogmas might lead you to think, the municipal level and “good, old fashioned” public service provision can respond to the needs and challenges of today
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  Pollin: What We Do Now Matters

  With the right decisions, we have the means not only to rescue the complete collapse of the economy, but also to move in the direction of a just, equitable and sustainable socioeconomic order
• Engler: Coronavirus is a historic trigger event — and it needs a movement to respond

  Even in times of social distancing, building a collective, social response to the pandemic is our only salvation.
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  Prashad: IMF Refuses Aid to Venezuela in the Midst of the Coronavirus Crisis

  The IMF denial of the $5 billion request from Venezuela follows Pence’s sentiment. It is a violation of the spirit of international cooperation that is at the heart of the UN Charter
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  Elbaum: Big Changes Ahead. Let’s Be the Whirlwind.

  However severe the current crisis, and whatever the outcome in November, big changes are coming in how the U.S. economy functions, how this country is ruled and its role in the world
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  Benjamin: Saudi’s Brave Women Pull Back the Curtain on Crown Prince MBS

  How can the world’s leaders pretend that it is acceptable to meet in a country that imprisons and tortures peaceful women activists and bombs civilians in Yemen? It isn’t
• Evans: Rising for a global feminist future with the movement to elect Bernie Sanders

  We are a coalition of feminists contending with both our differences and our commonality in age, race, class, religion, labor, and sexual orientation. We meet at the intersection of our fluid identities. Though our experiences are different, we share a vision of a feminist future.