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.
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.
‘People were frozen, I knew that. It wasn’t the stunned shock of 2016; this time around, it was exhaustion. But it also felt like people were thinking. What we’d done before hadn’t worked. What would? No one knew. Yet.’
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.
Former chief climate diplomat for the Philippines Yeb Saño discusses his work with Greenpeace Southeast Asia and the challenges climate activists face under repressive governments.
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.
For more than 75 years, the Palestinian people have been resisting occupation, dehumanization, ethnic cleansing, forced displacement, imprisonment, the denial of basic human rights and other injustices from the Israeli state.
Sunrise Movement co-founder Evan Weber discusses the years of Green New Deal organizing that led to the landmark new jobs program to address the climate crisis.
Reproductive rights. Climate meltdown. Attacks on trans youth. Considering what’s at stake, it’s OK to skip some rungs on the usual ‘ladder of engagement,’ Akin Olla writes.
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