The war on women: The view from China
Today, however, rather than seeing women as a key driver of economic advancement, China’s leaders have been cracking down on the feminist movement. Leta Hong Fincher, a scholar on women in China, explains why.
Why doesn’t American political culture understand the power of direct action campaigns?
It’s time to recover what we once knew: Direct action campaigns are the engine that power movements past state power and right-wing violence.
Trump threatens sanctuary cities with more undocumented immigrants; politicians welcome his plan
"Let's not concede that having refugees in our cities is something to be threatened by."
Journalism as Subversion
Global capitalism erases the world's stories and histories. It seeks to shut out our voices, hopes and dreams by replacing the actual and the real with fake and false. Is its ultimate goal to create a vast historical amnesia?
Know your rights: How immigrant rights activists are preparing for looming ICE deportation raids
“We tell our community members that no matter what ICE does, don’t open the door.”
It’s not enough to elect progressives: Movements must have a role in governing
Our work must be about building long-term, multiracial, people-powered movements around a shared agenda for racial justice and a people’s economy.
Murdoch paper gives away the game: Cuomo is on their side
Gov. Andrew Cuomo's decade in office has been marked by resisting taxation of the wealthy and an adversarial stance against public sector labor unions.
While state leaders make war, Spanish children march for peace
On this thirtieth march for international peace in commemoration of the day that Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated, the children sang “No to War,” “Yes to Peace,” “Save the Children,” “Friendship Yes, Violence No.”
Fox News Host Sues Roger Ailes Over Sexual Harassment
"Ailes has unlawfully retaliated against Carlson and sabotaged her career because she refused his sexual advances and complained about severe and pervasive sexual harassment," the lawsuit says.
Mass protests meet Trump-Putin summit in Helsinki over human rights, free speech, climate action
As the two leaders drove from the airport to their summit, they were met by 300 billboards in English and Russian that were posted by the country’s leading newspaper, Helsingin Sanomat.