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“Disagreement can be a beautiful, beautiful thing,” says Tanuja Jagernauth.
“If we lose this as a public good and as a free public service, we will have lost everything,” says Mariame Kaba.
“Nobody had a story about unlearning that didn’t include a connection with other people,” says Lewis Raven Wallace.
“There’s nothing like getting to give someone their rent money,” says mutual aid organizer Ashley Fairbanks.
Largely unseen care work, communications, healing, and fellowship makes sustained resistance in Minneapolis possible.
“Getting involved locally is critical,” says journalist Andrea Pitzer.
Fuentes is the “more energetic and undiluted voice of the American right,” writer Shane Burley says.
“We are becoming the people that we always knew that we needed to be,” says Minneapolis organizer Andrew Fahlstrom.
Longtime scholar of Venezuelan politics Geo Maher offers crucial context that is often missing from mainstream coverage.
“I cannot imagine doing anything else in this moment,” says community defense organizer Gabe Gonzalez.
Libraries represent the kind of infrastructure progressive leaders must fortify at all costs, especially in this moment.
“I think a lot of us could level up our skills,” says researcher Tamara Nopper.
“Care really should be at the center of our strategy, of our analysis, and of our practice,” says Aaron Goggans.
Chicago is giving the US “a stellar example of how to fight back against these xenophobic pogroms,” said one organizer.
“It's all hands on deck and we have to fight. This is the only way,” says Leanne Betasamosake Simpson.
“We're going to need a lot more in-person opportunities for us to expand our humanity,” says organizer Mariame Kaba.
Hundreds of people poured into the streets of Rogers Park, a result of months of work building solidarity and networks.
Trump is normalizing attacks on blue cities because he intends to overpower hubs of democratic resistance.
"There is no neutral ground in this moment. You're either resisting or you're complicit,” says Eman Abdelhadi.
The resistance centered around Chicago's Broadview ICE detention center shows our radical solidarity against fascism.
“History shows us that repression always breeds resistance," says Chicago organizer Miguel Alvelo Rivera.
Antiwar veteran and counter-recruiter Rory Fanning says solidarity is crucial as Trump moves to militarize US cities.
“There's no rule of law that's going to get us out of where we are,” says Andrea Ritchie.
“When people are fighting displacement, they're fighting for their class interests,” says Andrew Lee.
Facing militaristic consolidation in US cities, it is up to all of us to define the politics of opposition.
Assemblies are “a unique opportunity for people to build a democracy that has yet to be born,” says Denzel Caldwell.
The sustained attention around the Epstein files lets us shine a light on the bipartisan architecture of impunity.
“They understand that what they're doing is devastating, and they're doing it anyway,” says Astra Taylor.
“Fascism and authoritarianism are deployed through law enforcement,” says Silky Shah.
Kelly Hayes and Eric Blanc unpack the fallout of Musk’s cuts and assess where things stand for the labor movement.
“Making durable changes isn't always about the raw numbers,” says Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò.
As other branches of government fail to check the Trump administration, the balance of power shifts toward oligarchs.
Projects that help explain to people what’s happening are what’s going to help them make collective sense of the moment.
“Now is the time to be bold and audacious,” says community safety organizer Che Johnson-Long.
A union exists whenever a group of people work together to solve a problem they couldn't alone, says Shane Burley.
Sarah Kendzior discusses the Trump administration’s politics of disposability and the movement towards authoritarianism.
“We don't get to choose the people who show up for us and who save us sometimes,” says Ejeris Dixon.
“What we're seeing is one of the oldest tricks in the authoritarian handbook,” says Palestinian scholar Eman Abdelhadi.
“Our movements are pretty much just made of our relationships,” says author and activist Dean Spade.
Organizer Daniel Hunter says we’re seeing a greater range of tactics under Trump 2.0 — and that should give us hope.
A Global Day of Action on March 29 has been sparked by Elon Musk's efforts to gut federal programs and agencies.
“We need each other, and interdependence is key to survival for human beings,” says organizer Mariame Kaba.
We must treat attacks on our communities as an effort to silence every voice of dissent, because those are the stakes.
Musk views empathy as a “bug” that threatens his political agenda. This framing is instructive.
“This kind of repression, part of its intention is to isolate people,” says organizer Nikki Marín Baena.
“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.
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