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We Must Reject Trump Admin Plot to Dismantle U.S. Progressive Movement

By Negin Owliaei, Maya Schenwar & truthout ● Community Voices ● September 19, 2025

White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller promised to dismantle leftist networks across the U.S. “in Charlie’s name,” as the Trump Administration’s broader commitment to consolidating power by demolishing civil rights, free speech, and free press became more explicit.

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20 Years Later: Hurricane Katrina Revealed Why Climate Justice Must Include the Right to Free Movement

By Faye Matthews, Andrei Greenwood & Resilience ● Community Voices ● August 29, 2025

Taproot Earth believes that the right to remain in your generational and ancestral home, to migrate out of harm’s way, and to return to your home are basic, inalienable, human rights.

CPS Energy Board Must Fulfill its Community Solar Promise

By DeeDee Belmares ● Community Voices ● July 23, 2025

To fulfill its commitment to the city’s most vulnerable residents, CPS Energy must launch its community solar program and restart the residential solar program it abandoned three years ago.

Arturo Madrid: On the Responsibility of Latin@ Academics, Artists, and Cultural Workers

By Arturo Madrid ● Community Voices ● July 16, 2025

A preeminent Latino scholar issues an urgent call to his colleagues—and to all of us—to get educated on our rights, vocally assert them, share information about threats as they emerge, and stand in active solidarity with all targeted groups.

From North Texas Heat Illness into Deadly Hill Country Flooding

By Caprice Capri ● Community Voices ● July 7, 2025

The dark side of the Governor Abbott’s ‘Texas Miracle’ is manifesting in our bodies and shared disasters as heat and climate disasters increase.

The Fight for Mahmoud Khalil Is a Fight for Us All

By Sajida Jalalzai, Noah Collins, James Finley & Habiba Noor ● Community Voices ● March 15, 2025

If we don’t successfully challenge the government’s unconstitutional seizure of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, this behavior will become the model for repressing labor organizers, racial justice advocates, reproductive justice efforts, climate activists, and more, the authors write.