Tag: democracy

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.

If we don’t learn from failure, do we then not forfeit the “sapiens” (wisdom, intelligence) that in the end allegedly sets our species apart?

Trumpism will push all limits until stopped by a greater coalition, like 200 judicial rebukes and a political surge no amateur insurrectionists can deny. We need far more than Dem mice that roar but don’t bite.

Trump will reverse the equation and use martial law to overcome public protest.

How small groups took on great powers and won a victory for decolonization, Africa, indigenous peoples, and more.

Nationwide demonstrations denounce authoritarianism, ICE crackdowns, and Trump’s $45 million military parade while calling for sustained resistance.

But this requires electing Democrats who understand the gravity of the moment and who are prepared to expend serious political capital to make big changes possible.

Democrats can shake off old ways of thinking by standing on their visions for the future even in conservative areas by passing the baton to the next generation to ensure the work of creating a better society for everyone can continue.

Right now, the Democratic Party appears to be stuck between Little Rock and a hard place.

The Trump administration’s assault on human rights comes against the background of years of policy decisions in Washington that too often cast aside such concerns in favor of supposedly more important “strategic” interests.