Tag: movements
The resistance reaches into Trump country
As organizers for No Kings 2 seek historic turnout on Oct. 18, the broader pro-democracy movement has already broken new ground.
How movements can make the abundance agenda work for everyone
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.
How ideology can help (or hurt) movements trying to build power
Political educator Harmony Goldberg discusses whether the ideological traditions of the left are helpful for practical organizing.
Sometimes a student movement can spark a revolution
Here is why student protest movements are the key to understanding both our present and our future.
6 ways to stay focused on movement-building amid the post-election chaos
In this time of uncertainty, movements must continue the long-term work of building democracy.
As the decade closes, the power of protest endures
A new global social movement is growing, in schools and on the streets.
Building power and raising voices of rural women
Rural women have served as the educators, healthcare givers, nurturers, and fighters for our community for generations.
Mobilizing against extinction
"When society is ready to lose its sense of fear in the face of state authority, then everything crumbles and change can happen.”
5 ways new movement leaders are effecting change
Today, new movements are working with more established organizations to capitalize on their wide-reaching networks.
Our opponents’ actions show we’re winning
Together, we can create transformational change. We are closer than we realize.
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Judge dismisses the last January 6 case, writing that absolving the Oath Keepers is...
The Justice Department told the court a retrial would harass eight men whose sentences Trump had already commuted. Two Oath Keepers who pleaded guilty and cooperated keep their convictions.
US workers average 10 paid vacation days a year, and 33 million get none
Twenty-five OECD countries require employers to provide at least 20 days. The US legal minimum is zero, and 57 percent of the lowest-paid tenth of workers get no vacation at all.
A Gnarly Situation: High-Elevation Discovery Raises New Questions About Which California Trees Will Survive...
Birds may have been burying Jeffrey pine seeds up high for thousands of years. But now that they’re sprouting, this new species of subalpine tree may change the playing field.
He’s Eligible for Up to $480,000 After Being Wrongly Imprisoned for 42 Years. The...
Elvis Brooks’ case was an egregious example of a wrongful conviction, civil rights attorneys said. But Louisiana’s attorney general maintains that Brooks and other exonerees are guilty — and therefore don’t qualify for any money from the state.
El-Sayed wins Michigan Senate primary after AIPAC’s super PAC spends a record $30.6 million
Outside groups supplied 88 percent of the money spent on the Democratic side of a contest AdImpact ranks as the third most expensive Senate primary in US history.