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Even as we grieve Trump’s return, we must remember that our movements have often operated against the odds.
For the ruling elite, a surge in class consciousness is a deeply unsettling development.
“It’s inherently a racial justice and economic justice fight,” says Silky Shah, executive director of Detention Watch Network. In this episode,...
“It’s been two months since the storm,” Asheville organizer Sarah Nuñez told me. “Two months that felt more like six.” In late September,...
The Thanksgiving holiday is rooted in colonial myth-making. While many gatherings this week will be divorced from that mythology, this is nonetheless...
“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...
It is crucial that we rethink our approach to direct action in a potentially authoritarian, dictatorial context.
While principled critiques are often necessary, let’s communicate like people who still need each other — because we do.
“PTSD, in many ways, works like a time machine,” says healing justice practitioner Chiara Galimberti.
Author Talia Lavin discusses the legacy of the Satanic Panic and how right-wing superstitions fuel conspiracy theories.
The 2024 presidential election is creating major safety concerns for election officials, poll watchers, activists, and marginalized communities. For...
“The capitalist system also doesn’t care if we die. So insisting on the value of human life, insisting on grieving, particularly grieving publicly...
On Thursday, U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene wrote a social media post declaring, “Yes, they can control the weather. It’s ridiculous...
“We cannot become what it is that has harmed us in the first place,” says Elliott Fukui.
The area's status as a “climate haven” has been swept away, but community resilience remains.
“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...
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...
“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...
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...
“We can exist in a future beyond the status quo,” says author Robyn Maynard.
This week, leftists on multiple social media platforms debated whether the acronym “ZOG” is an accurate or acceptable descriptor for the United...
“We don't have a housing system, we have an unhousing system,” says Tracy Rosenthal.
In the United States, presidential elections can be mesmerizing. Even people whose political work does not center electoral politics often become...
“When you’re engaged in political work that is as embodied and vulnerable, uncharted and courageous as self-help, you’re really harnessing...
“The demands that we had for President Biden are now being issued to candidate Kamala Harris,” says Ahmad Abuznaid.
“This system was designed to do exactly what it is doing and has been doing: concentrating wealth and facilitating racial capitalism and colonialism...
“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...
The Luddites, who smashed machines in the 19th century, in an organized effort to resist automation, are often portrayed as uneducated opponents of...
“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...
While this moment has generated satisfaction for many, the terrain of injustice we are navigating remains unchanged.
“At UChicago, they were chanting, ‘40,000 people dead. You are fighting kids instead,’” says author and University of Chicago faculty member...
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...
“We have to be impossible to ignore,” says Palestinian academic, author and organizer Eman Abdelhadi.
“Outside agitators have played an incredible role in social movements,” says author Astra Taylor.
Following the arrest of over 100 students at Columbia University on April 18, Palestine solidarity encampment protests have multiplied across the US....
“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...
Protesters acting in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza converged on a major three-way intersection in Chicago’s Wicker Park neighborhood on...
As protests against Israel’s genocidal attacks on Gaza have unfolded in recent months, some groups have taken action against arms manufacturers...
“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...
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...
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...
“Every interaction between Black and Brown community members and CPD responding to a gunshot alert is dangerous. It puts people at risk of violence...
Amid Israel’s unrelenting violence against Palestinians, the Palestine solidarity movement has been unwavering in its calls to end the genocide. In...
Last week, the Georgia Senate approved a bill aimed at expanding the state’s cash bail system while simultaneously criminalizing charitable bail...
“The truth is, every time community groups have asked questions about policing, the police haven’t had good answers. And when really pushed, they...
Chicago organizers will soon learn whether the city’s progressive mayor will honor a key campaign promise. Brandon Johnson campaigned on a pledge to...
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...
“Surviving settler colonialism isn’t just about surviving its material realities, it’s also about surviving how settler colonialism requires...
Today is my 43rd birthday. Two decades ago, this milestone seemed improbable, if not impossible. And yet, here I am, living in improbable, impossible...
I have been having a lot of conversations lately about what antifascist organizing should look like in 2024. Some people argue that fighting fascism...