Tag: culture
What the overlooked history of post-1960s organizing can teach activists today
A conversation with the editors of "Remaking Radicalism"—a collection of writings from one of the most underrepresented periods of leftist organizing.
Violent anti-Asian fury as American as apple pie
Had Trump not denigrated an innocent Chinese population, there’d be no scourge of violence today against American citizens.
The emerging culture of compassion
"Take your brothers need as the measure for your actions."
It’s time for an organizing revival
We need to turn that awakening into sustained power to win tangible change in people’s lives.
How Spanish can help us survive viral times
A journey into the heart of a language we need now more than ever.
In 2021, let’s ring a global alarm—on inequality—that everyone can hear
We have to prevent our societies from returning to—our deeply unequal—business as usual.
10 organizations honoring Native peoples’ history and future on Thanksgiving
Food Tank is standing with and highlighting organizations renouncing the traditional story of Thanksgiving and honoring Indigenous communities.
Indigenous Peoples Day comes amid a reckoning over colonialism and calls...
As Indigenous peoples the world over continue to defend ancestral lands, Indigenous Peoples Day can have important meaning, more than just the renaming of a national holiday.
Change and decay: A time of transition
Ancient divisions are being strengthened, new divisions fermented, injustices highlighted; under the action of cleavage all are being drawn to the polluted surface of human affairs.
America is exceptional in all the wrong ways
On the global stage, America is the exception, but not in the way we would like to believe.
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Why Biden’s debate disaster two years ago matters for the future
Looking ahead, a great need will be to overcome the ongoing culture of conformity that so badly damaged the Democratic Party in 2024 and helped Trump get back into the White House.
Addicted to war?
War Fever, Trump-Style.
Bipartisan bill introduced in House to ban use of pesticide paraquat in US agriculture
The bill would "direct the Environmental Protection Agency to cancel all existing paraquat registrations, revoke any tolerances permitting paraquat residue in food, and ban the sale and use of existing stocks upon enactment."
Losing face, losing the base, losing the midterm race—a tidal trifecta
Though daring MAGA lies seem tidal,/ Denying outcomes suicidal.
Alaska governor vetoes single-use polystyrene foam foodware ban
For now, polystyrene products will remain legal for use by commercial food vendors statewide.