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‘No Kings’: San Antonio Turns Out for Nation’s Largest Ever Day of Protest

Speakers in Travis Park in San Antonio challenged soldiers to disobey ‘unlawful orders,’ workers to organize to break the power of billionaires, and everyday folks to work together to halt Trump’s authoritarian drive.

By Greg Harman

/ 20 Oct 2025

‘No Kings’: San Antonio Turns Out for Nation’s Largest Ever Day of Protest

‘Power for Palestine’ Speakers Announce New Coalition to Challenge San Antonio’s Role in Genocide

Six local orgs announced a new coalition targeting San Antonio’s material support for Israel’s genocide and ethnic cleansing in Palestine—and to grieve more than 65,000 deaths since October 7, 2023.

By Marisol Cortez

/ 10 Oct 2025

‘Power for Palestine’ Speakers Announce New Coalition to Challenge San Antonio’s Role in Genocide

As Trump Works to Crush Climate Efforts, Local Projects Persevere at the Grassroots

Just this week, the president froze billions in funding for renewable-energy projects in Democrat-led states amidst a wider government shutdown, demonstrating why grassroots climate initiatives are increasingly building in resilience from heat, storms, and the government itself.

By Greg Harman

/ 2 Oct 2025

As Trump Works to Crush Climate Efforts, Local Projects Persevere at the Grassroots

REVIEW: ‘We’re Coming for You and Your Rotten System’ Is a Rousing How-To Guide for Fighting Corporate Greed

Jonathan Rosenblum’s new movement history—and valuable primer in municipalist solutions—delivers insight and inspiration from successes in Seattle, where people have forced local government to put the needs of people and planet before profits.

By Frances Madeson

/ 24 Sep 2025

REVIEW: ‘We’re Coming for You and Your Rotten System’ Is a Rousing How-To Guide for Fighting Corporate Greed

Remembering Jack Elder—Activist, Peacemaker, Defender of Human Rights & La Madre Tierra

In a moment convulsed by questions of who we remember and how, we choose to commemorate the life of our friend and comrade Jack Elder (1943-2025).

By Marisol Cortez

/ 20 Sep 2025

Remembering Jack Elder—Activist, Peacemaker, Defender of Human Rights & La Madre Tierra

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

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.

By Negin Owliaei

/ 19 Sep 2025

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

‘Slaying Monsters’: Lessons From a Washington Tree Sit for Activists Everywhere

In a moment when increasing state repression of protest is coupled with vigilante violence, the Olympic Forest Defenders offer lessons to all about how to build power and mitigate risk while taking direct action against ecocide.

By Annie Hartnett

/ 12 Sep 2025

‘Slaying Monsters’: Lessons From a Washington Tree Sit for Activists Everywhere

Texas Gerrymandering Fight Reveals Actions of an Autocrat—And What it Takes to Defeat One

Do not obey.

By Greg Harman

/ 11 Aug 2025

Texas Gerrymandering Fight Reveals Actions of an Autocrat—And What it Takes to Defeat One

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

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.

By Arturo Madrid

/ 16 Jul 2025

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

What Our Pro-Democracy Movement Should Be Learning from Nature

We need to learn to fly like bees and thread like spiders, writes conflict transformation expert John Paul Lederach.

By Waging Nonviolence

/ 14 Jul 2025

What Our Pro-Democracy Movement Should Be Learning from Nature

Punk Power, People Power: Las Hijas de la Madre are Perfecting Art as Resistance

As the Latinx feminist punk band drops singles and gears up to release a multifaceted album project, Deceleration takes a dive into the collective’s work and ethos.

By James Courtney

/ 9 Jul 2025

Punk Power, People Power: Las Hijas de la Madre are Perfecting Art as Resistance

Is This Our American Spring? How Nonviolent Protest is Accelerating Across the United States

Contrary to conventional wisdom, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests this year have dwarfed those in 2017, and they have been extraordinarily peaceful.

By Waging Nonviolence

/ 13 Jun 2025

Is This Our American Spring? How Nonviolent Protest is Accelerating Across the United States