Tag: activism

Community activist ,Cristóbal Cavazos, says that the people of Chicago have been steadfast in their mobilization against ICE, with communities engaging in daily protests and community safety patrols.

What we’ve seen is the power of the Federal Communications Commission, or FCC, to approve mergers and how that gives the executive branch dangerous leverage over media.

The greatest tragedy of all would be President Donald Trump successfully exploiting Kirk’s senseless killing as a pretext to carry out a nationwide crackdown on the political left.

ICE has faced widespread backlash over the arrest of community advocates swept up while documenting raids across the country, many of them U.S. citizens.

We’ve been on the road since April, meeting with leaders from poor and dispossessed communities in this country and sharing notes from our new book, You Only Get What You’re Organized to Take: Lessons from the Movement to End Poverty.

With smart strategy, organizing and action, movements can take the momentum that governments are currently leveraging to back big developers, corporate power and fossil fuels and make it work for the public.

Having civilians trained in the skills of de-escalation gives people power a greater chance of success.

For 18 days, six members of Jewish Voice for Peace-Chicago led a hunger strike that helped re-center Gaza in the public discourse and pressure elected officials.

An interfaith campaign is confronting one of the most powerful groups driving unconditional support for Israel and the genocide in Gaza with spiritual resistance.

As those who understand that strategic nonviolence is, both statistically and morally, the most effective means of resistance, we must take responsibility and exercise great care in its implementation.