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We Can’t Relinquish Our Demands and Solely Play Defense During Trump’s Next Term

Even as we grieve Trump’s return, we must remember that our movements have often operated against the odds.

13.12.2024 3

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With Anger Roiling Around Health Insurance, Will We See a Class Awakening?

For the ruling elite, a surge in class consciousness is a deeply unsettling development.

12.12.2024 3

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How Immigration Organizers Are Gearing Up for Another Trump Era 

“It’s inherently a racial justice and economic justice fight,” says Silky Shah, executive director of Detention Watch Network. In this episode,...

05.12.2024 10

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2 Months After Hurricane Helene, How Are Impacted Local Organizers Coping?

“It’s been two months since the storm,” Asheville organizer Sarah Nuñez told me. “Two months that felt more like six.” In late September,...

03.12.2024 10

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Rebecca Nagle Calls for Confronting the Legacy of Colonization and Its Ongoing Threat to Native Rights

The Thanksgiving holiday is rooted in colonial myth-making. While many gatherings this week will be divorced from that mythology, this is nonetheless...

28.11.2024 20

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We Must Contest the Christian Right’s Agenda in Every Venue of Our Lives

“Our enemies are waging a war, and to many of them, it’s a holy war,” says “Movement Memos” host Kelly Hayes. In this podcast episode, Hayes...

21.11.2024 8

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How Must We Reorient Our Movements Under a Second Trump Administration?

It is crucial that we rethink our approach to direct action in a potentially authoritarian, dictatorial context.

15.11.2024 7

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Let’s Move Beyond Blame to Fight for Each Other in the Face of Fascism

While principled critiques are often necessary, let’s communicate like people who still need each other — because we do.

08.11.2024 4

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To Transform Our Trauma, We Must Nurture Movements for Change

“PTSD, in many ways, works like a time machine,” says healing justice practitioner Chiara Galimberti.

06.11.2024 6

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The Right Is Crafting Its Own Horror Story to Cast “Others” as Monsters

Author Talia Lavin discusses the legacy of the Satanic Panic and how right-wing superstitions fuel conspiracy theories.

31.10.2024 4

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How Do We Prepare for Election Day Threats Amid Rising Right-Wing Violence?

The 2024 presidential election is creating major safety concerns for election officials, poll watchers, activists, and marginalized communities. For...

25.10.2024 10

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From the Ashes: How Grief Shapes Our Struggles

“The capitalist system also doesn’t care if we die. So insisting on the value of human life, insisting on grieving, particularly grieving publicly...

24.10.2024 2

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Hurricane Season Has Revealed the Right’s New Climate Denial Playbook

On Thursday, U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene wrote a social media post declaring, “Yes, they can control the weather. It’s ridiculous...

11.10.2024 6

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Keeping Each Other Alive: Mental Health and Collective Survival

“We cannot become what it is that has harmed us in the first place,” says Elliott Fukui.

10.10.2024 10

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After Helene, Mutual Aid Becomes a Lifeline in North Carolina

The area's status as a “climate haven” has been swept away, but community resilience remains.

04.10.2024 10

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Breaking Down Sudan’s Struggle: What the World Is Missing

“This war is not a civil war, it’s a counterrevolutionary war against civilians. It’s a war of military elites against the entire civilian...

26.09.2024 9

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The Far Right Is Creating Emblematic Narratives for People to Latch Onto

This week, California Gov. Gavin Newsom made good on a promise to crack down on deepfakes by signing two bills into law. The bills require political...

21.09.2024 10

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Our Power Is Where We Choose One Another”: Abolitionists Discuss Our Moment

“This is a moment that is going to be looked back on 50 years from now, 100 years from now, and what is going to be said of us is how we came out of...

12.09.2024 10

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For Our Movements to Win, We Must Learn How Not to Let Our Grief Destroy Us

Unprocessed grief is a major fault line in our movements and in our society at large. Tragedy and loss abound, and yet, we often lack the tools — or...

07.09.2024 4

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Remembering How to Care: Lessons From Deep Space Nine

“We can exist in a future beyond the status quo,” says author Robyn Maynard.

29.08.2024 4

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Normalizing Nazi Rhetoric Won’t Further the Goal of Palestinian Liberation

This week, leftists on multiple social media platforms debated whether the acronym “ZOG” is an accurate or acceptable descriptor for the United...

17.08.2024 5

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It’s “Open Season” on the Unhoused. We Must Oppose It.

“We don't have a housing system, we have an unhousing system,” says Tracy Rosenthal.

15.08.2024 5

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Don’t Let the Electoral Circus and Its Side Shows Weaken Your Political Will

In the United States, presidential elections can be mesmerizing. Even people whose political work does not center electoral politics often become...

05.08.2024 6

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Radical Acts of Care: From Underground Abortions to Militant Clinic Defense

“When you’re engaged in political work that is as embodied and vulnerable, uncharted and courageous as self-help, you’re really harnessing...

01.08.2024 10

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Palestinian Activists Say Biden’s Legacy Is Gaza Genocide and US Imperialism

“The demands that we had for President Biden are now being issued to candidate Kamala Harris,” says Ahmad Abuznaid.

25.07.2024 6

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How Solidarity Falters Amid Repression and How We Can Do Better

“This system was designed to do exactly what it is doing and has been doing: concentrating wealth and facilitating racial capitalism and colonialism...

18.07.2024 4

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To Stay in the Fight, We Must Navigate Trauma and Find the Healing We Need

“If you’re trying to destroy things that are as massive as the structures and the institutions that we talk about wanting to get rid of, that we...

05.07.2024 20

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What Today’s Workers Can Learn From Machine-Breaking Luddites

The Luddites, who smashed machines in the 19th century, in an organized effort to resist automation, are often portrayed as uneducated opponents of...

20.06.2024 6

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Objectivity in Journalism Is a Deadly Myth That Serves Israeli Military and Cops

“If you think about all the cop shows and you think about the birthright tours and you think about all the friendship visits of U.S. officials to...

06.06.2024 30

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Why Trump’s Conviction Does Not Complicate My Abolitionist Politics

While this moment has generated satisfaction for many, the terrain of injustice we are navigating remains unchanged.

03.06.2024 10

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Palestine Solidarity Encampments Are a Rehearsal for Liberatory Self-Governance

“At UChicago, they were chanting, ‘40,000 people dead. You are fighting kids instead,’” says author and University of Chicago faculty member...

23.05.2024 30

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Reducing Fight Against Fascism to Electoral Questions Overlooks Larger Crisis

On Thursday, Texas Governor Greg Abbott pardoned a man who was convicted of killing 28-year-old Black Lives Matter protester Garrett Foster in the...

22.05.2024 20

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Activists Carry Forward Momentum of Campus Protests With New Waves of Organizing

“We have to be impossible to ignore,” says Palestinian academic, author and organizer Eman Abdelhadi.

14.05.2024 20

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Outside Agitators Are Good, Actually

“Outside agitators have played an incredible role in social movements,” says author Astra Taylor.

09.05.2024 10

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Berkeley’s Free Palestine Encampment Draws on Legacy of Palestinian Protests

Following the arrest of over 100 students at Columbia University on April 18, Palestine solidarity encampment protests have multiplied across the US....

29.04.2024 10

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Care Must Be a Collective Practice of Survival, Not a Site of Profit Extraction

“In this moment of crisis, we have to understand how the care economy functions.… I think we have to ask ourselves, do we want someone to profit...

14.03.2024 5

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Following Street Blockade, Chicago Activists Vow Ongoing Shutdowns for Palestine

Protesters acting in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza converged on a major three-way intersection in Chicago’s Wicker Park neighborhood on...

12.03.2024 4

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Activists Unveil Map of Facilities Actively Producing Weapons for Israel

As protests against Israel’s genocidal attacks on Gaza have unfolded in recent months, some groups have taken action against arms manufacturers...

07.03.2024 5

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State of US Journalism Is “Worst I’ve Ever Seen It,” Says Sarah Kendzior

“The public domain is being purchased, and it is being purchased in order for it to be destroyed,” says journalist Sarah Kendzior. In this episode...

29.02.2024 10

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We Must Resist Any Erasure of Why Aaron Bushnell’s Young Life Came to an End

Aaron Bushnell died for Palestine. Bushnell, a 25-year-old active-duty member of the U.S. Air Force, set himself on fire in front of the Israeli...

27.02.2024 10

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Our Mourning for Nex Benedict Calls Us to Action Against Transphobia and Fascism

As a nonbinary Native person, I am holding Nex Benedict in my heart this weekend. Nex was a gender-expansive 16-year-old whose mother was a member of...

23.02.2024 5

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Chicago Organizers Defeat Police Tech in Ongoing Fight for Community Safety

“Every interaction between Black and Brown community members and CPD responding to a gunshot alert is dangerous. It puts people at risk of violence...

15.02.2024 20

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Ending Genocide Is an Individual Commitment, But We Enact That Goal Collectively

Amid Israel’s unrelenting violence against Palestinians, the Palestine solidarity movement has been unwavering in its calls to end the genocide. In...

14.02.2024 3

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Georgia Senate Approves Bill That Would Criminalize Charitable Bail Funds

Last week, the Georgia Senate approved a bill aimed at expanding the state’s cash bail system while simultaneously criminalizing charitable bail...

06.02.2024 10

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Predictive Police Tech Isn’t Making Communities Safer — It’s Disempowering Them

“The truth is, every time community groups have asked questions about policing, the police haven’t had good answers. And when really pushed, they...

01.02.2024 30

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Will Chicago’s Mayor Cancel Inaccurate Gunshot Detection System Contract?

Chicago organizers will soon learn whether the city’s progressive mayor will honor a key campaign promise. Brandon Johnson campaigned on a pledge to...

29.01.2024 20

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Disability Justice Activists Organize to Help Palestinians Stay Connected

Amid the struggle to survive Israel’s ongoing military attacks – which have left over 25,000 dead and more than 7,000 missing in Gaza – and the...

23.01.2024 8

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Attacks on the Concept of Settler Colonialism Are About Undermining Solidarity

“Surviving settler colonialism isn’t just about surviving its material realities, it’s also about surviving how settler colonialism requires...

18.01.2024 30

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Our Burning, Broken, Beautiful World: Thoughts on Turning 43

Today is my 43rd birthday. Two decades ago, this milestone seemed improbable, if not impossible. And yet, here I am, living in improbable, impossible...

15.01.2024 5

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No Matter Who Wins in 2024, Collective Care Will Be Needed to Combat Fascism

I have been having a lot of conversations lately about what antifascist organizing should look like in 2024. Some people argue that fighting fascism...

09.01.2024 10

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