Thursday, March 19, 2026

Tag: protests

How memes and humor are fueling Gen Z’s global uprisings

From Kenya to Nepal, Gen Z movements sweeping the globe are joyfully defying authoritarianism with memes, stunts and dance videos.

Inside the student resistance to authoritarianism on campus

Student activists have already won important victories over Trump’s authoritarian agenda and they’re just getting started.

The playbook of every successful nonviolent struggle

Nonviolent movements that have toppled oppressive regimes, prevented coups and transformed societies follow these four essential steps.

What social movements can learn from the ‘innovator’s dilemma’

Organizers can borrow ideas from the business world about where to look for innovation, and about how our movement ecology can make space for it.

New filing alleges ICE leaders target protesters for arrest over speech...

Court documents in the Operation Midway Blitz case describe orders to arrest people for “hyperbolic comments,” claims that all protesters are “violent rioters,” and use of tear gas before any alleged assault, as a judge weighs limits on federal force.

What’s next after the historic No Kings protest?

We just witnessed the largest protest in US history, but this is just the start.

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.

Video claim challenges DHS account of Border Patrol shooting in Chicago

Attorney says body camera shows agent saying “Do something, b––” before firing; prosecutors charge two drivers as officials expand Operation Midway Blitz.

Why fandom organizing is a powerful strategy for movement building

As the Disney/ABC boycott took off, youth activist group Get Free mobilized its “Star Wars” fan community, showing the potential of cultural organizing.

Judge halts Trump’s Portland troop plan as governors warn of martial...

Federal judge Karin Immergut blocks National Guard deployments to Oregon and beyond as the White House escalates rhetoric and appeals the ruling.

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DNC approach to Israel is political malpractice and moral failure

On no issue is that more apparent than the DNC’s insistence on treating Israel as above serious reproach.

The US bombs kids so Palmer Luckey can have nice things

Because for every bomb the U.S. and Israel drop, a bunch of men in cushy offices profit off all the death. 

‘You can’t live without us’: How Big Oil pivoted from climate-friendly messaging to normalize...

More than 1,500 independent advertising agencies and 4,000 individual creatives have signed Clean Creatives’ pledge to refuse future fossil fuel contracts.

Balanced budget amendment would put Social Security, Medicare, and core public services on the...

The proposal would make revenue increases extraordinarily difficult while allowing tax cuts to pass more easily, shifting pressure onto widely used federal programs.
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Speeding up the ‘kill chain’: Pentagon bombs thousands of targets in Iran using Palantir...

The system, known as Project Maven, relies on technology by Palantir and also incorporates the AI model Claude built by Anthropic. Israel has used similar AI targeting programs in Iran, as well as in Gaza and Lebanon.