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There’s no predicting when movements will erupt, but this classic activist...
With Black Lives Matter in the midst of an unprecedented moment, now is the perfect time to read “The Movement Action Plan” — a model for understanding the long arc of movements.
Bon Jovi feeds the hungry opening the doors to his third...
"What this restaurant is truly meant to do is empower."
Arizona will retry No More Deaths’ activist Scott Warren
The largely ministry-led movement provided humanitarian assistance to the thousands of individuals fleeing violence-ravaged Central American countries.
Open letter from Noam Chomsky, Arundhati Roy, Dave Eggers, Pamela Anderson...
We can’t have privacy without agency.
Environmental defender murdered in Mexico days before vote on pipeline project
"This is a political crime for the human rights defense that Samir Flores Samir and the FPDTA carried out against the [project] and for people's autonomy and self-determination."
Respect: A tribute to Aretha Franklin, an icon of the Civil...
Aretha Franklin has been celebrated as one of the greatest American singers of any genre, who helped give birth to soul and redefined the American musical tradition.
Meet Ahed Tamimi, 17-year-old West Bank activist jailed for 8 months...
Known to some as the Rosa Parks of Palestine, Tamimi became a hero to Palestinians and people around the world last year.
Answering ‘what should I do?’ is easier when you know the...
There are many necessary roles in the popular movement at this time, which means there is something for everyone to do.
Martin Luther King Jr.’s Poor People’s Campaign born again
Now, 50 years later, a coalition has formed anew to organize poor people in the U.S. into what King called "a new and unsettling force" to fight poverty and forge meaningful change.
A manual for the new era of activist
Movement-building approaches from the civil rights era get a 2017 update.
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Donald the Dunce: He flunked Poli Sci 101
It’s hard to cheat when the whole world is watching...
‘Silence is complicity’: GOP condemned for doing nothing as Trump openly touts sabotage of...
“Donald Trump knows that if the people are heard in November, he and Republicans up and down the ballot will lose,” said Sen. Elizabeth Warren. “This is what we’re up against—and this is why we have to fight back with all we’ve got.”
Lawsuit filed after police handcuff 8-year-old boy on video
“My son has a disability and the authorities tried to make him a criminal.”
“Listen to the people”: How progressives win
These voices and ideas will not be able to change the poor strategy of the national Democratic Party on their own.
Reactionaries in ragged retreat: A wingnut brew of bottom-dwellers
Trump politics are in shambles, whatever he and lackeys try boomerang, and why should anything change in the next five months?