As activists double down on the disruptive tactics of recent campaigns, the movement’s leaders see opportunities to broaden its base to include people concerned about pocketbook issues like jobs and the cost of housing.
Community organizer Alex Birnel sits down with labor journalist Sarah Jaffe to unpack the politics of grief and its importance to communities struggling to refashion a world of extractive violence.
Choose Democracy recently launched a set of online tools and strategy games to help us prepare emotionally and strategically for whatever might happen this November and after. The tools invite participants to explore their reactions and options, to plot their own route through uncharted territory.
Climate denialists have long deployed the nefarious practice of ‘manufacturing doubt’ to undermine public understanding of the scientific consensus on global warming. Now anti-trans movements are borrowing the technique to poison trans healthcare research and ban care.
For the encampments to alter America’s ‘common sense’ on Palestine, they must center solidarity, speak to the majority, and popularize an alternative to Zionism.
Valero Energy has been a leading supplier of jet fuel to Israel for years—and wants to sell the nation more. An hours-long blockade at the company HQ on Monday shows that those a growing number standing against Palestinian genocide have taken notice.
Goldman Environmental Prize-winning activist and fourth-generation fisherman Diane Wilson cites jailing and mistreatment of those seeking justice for the devastation of coastal fisheries in launching the solidarity Global Hunger Strike.
A more accurate title for the book would have been “This Is Why I Think You Should Blow Up a Pipeline,” but it wouldn’t have sold nearly as many copies.
