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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The deaf, dumb and blind cult still dazzled by the nastiest, most naked ‘emperor’...
How mortifying: one crude, ham-fisted con artist, swelled by arrogance, ignorance, and stupidity, is all it took to topple this “naked” beacon of democracy. Figure even worse with a Putin in charge.
Democracy depends on broad-based taxation—history is clear about that
When governments depend on internal taxation, bargaining is required. Taxes are not simply extracted; they are negotiated, enforced, justified, and institutionalized.
What you should know about lead contamination in Omaha, Nebraska
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the city of Omaha have spent decades trying to clean it up.
The Trump/Newsom nuke war against renewables gets a Diablo push
Together Trump and Newsom are pushing nuclear power plants whose drastic deregulation may now rival the dangers posed by any bombs Iran could produce.
How many people have the US and Israel killed in Iran?
Why the real numbers of people killed are almost certainly much higher and why this matters with the conflicting estimates of the death toll in occupied Iraq 20 years ago.