Wednesday, June 17, 2026

What would a Yellow Vest movement look like in the United States?

There are many triggers that are likely to spark aggressive mass protests in 2019. Get ready.

The problems with the bank

For some reason the Bank became hung up on mobile phones – and only AMERICAN phones.

The struggle for what’s essential

Global mining companies have used the pandemic to push unwanted projects on vulnerable communities, who are fighting back — and sometimes winning.

The whole damn system is guilty as hell: Taking control of police

Democratic community control of the police transforms the power dynamic between police and citizens.

‘You only get what you’re organized to take’—lessons from the National Union of the...

“You can’t talk about the problems of poverty — the pain of it, the daily struggles to survive, the plight, the fight and the insight — without involving the newly emerging leaders from the growing ranks of the poor.”

Blood and soil!

What both those storm troopers of 90 years ago and this new breed of lemmings should be saying is "Yeah, Our blood and Their soil!" as to who really calls the shots for their actions.

Progressive Briefing for Monday, September 3

Labor Day: When workers are recognized as human, $30 trillion to the richest white Americans, Los Angeles educators vote to strike, and more.

3 things schools should teach about America’s history of white supremacy

Schools have ample opportunities to include much more about White supremacy, racial discrimination, and racial violence into school curricula.

What American media won’t tell us about the Putin/XI Meeting, Part II

An authoritarian approach to such a threat can never work – democracies have to lead.

Students are being punished for walking out to protest gun violence

Students are being suspended, given detentions, and even corporal punishment, for participating in the national walk out.