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“We are really good at finding what's wrong with each other,” says author and podcaster Margaret Killjoy.
They’ve created resources that may be helpful to other teachers who are developing sanctuary plans to protect students.
Tenant unions can teach us to strategize “with every lever that we have,” says tenant organizer Tracy Rosenthal.
We can’t prevent all of this administration’s harms, but we can greatly diminish their impacts if we organize.
Our resistance to fascistic policies must be grounded in our sense of justice, rather than arguments about what’s legal.
A new, intimidating year is upon us. Catastrophes abound and the threat of autocracy looms large. As we prepare ourselves for the struggles ahead,...
Every year, I take joy in supporting the Holiday Solidarity Toy Drive organized by Moms United Against Violence and Incarceration (MUAVI). Launched...
For many of our readers, the writings of Kelly Hayes and Maya Schenwar — longtime organizers and oft-time collaborators — are likely touchstones...
On Monday, 26-year-old Luigi Mangione was arrested for the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. In the days following the December 4...
“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, Hurricane...
The Thanksgiving holiday is rooted in colonial myth-making. While many gatherings this week will be divorced from that mythology, this is...
“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...
What will it mean to resist fascism under a second Trump administration? During Trump’s first term, we saw mass marches, blockade actions, and...
This is a moment of tragedy and turmoil for our movements. A fascist game show host has seized the reins of government, again, and is now poised to...
“We really have a big opportunity right now to decide, within traumatic conditions and circumstances, how we are going to show up, again and again,...
It’s a scary season, and many of us feel haunted by sinister forces — no horror movie required. With the presidential election looming and Nazis...
The 2024 presidential election is creating major safety concerns for election officials, poll watchers, activists, and marginalized communities....
“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...
“I’ve seen a lot of people lashing out at people horizontally, and my gut sense is that sometimes it happens because the folks who are lashing out...
Last year, researchers at Tulane University ranked Asheville, North Carolina, as one of the most “climate-resilient cities” in the United States —...
“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...
“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...
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 —...
“The immediacy of the crisis that we’re in demands a new society and not in some imagined future, but now,” says Rehearsals for Living coauthor...
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 author and organizer Tracy Rosenthal. In this episode of “Movement Memos,”...
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...