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![Mural entitled "Jazz women" pictured on September 10, 2013, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2025/01/GettyImages-1317260643-400x300.jpg)
Where Urban Fault Lines Run Deep, Solidarity Cities Take Root Â
In divided cities profoundly shaped by racial capitalism, solidarity economies are redrawing urban space.Â
![Cover image for I Am Maroon: The True Story of an American Political Prisoner (2024).](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/11/2024_1129-maroon-400x300.jpg)
“A Time Before Fear”: Notes From a Black Panther Who Spent 41 Years Behind Bars
Russell Shoatz’s posthumously published autobiography documents a lifetime of fighting for Black liberation.
![Kindergarten kids draw with chalk on blackboard](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/11/2024_1114-imagination-400x300.jpg)
“An Imagination Party”: How My Toddler Fuels My Vision for Liberation
In cataclysmic moments, what can we learn from the free imaginings of children?
![An inflatable dinghy carrying migrants is escorted by a French Warship across the English Channel towards British Waters on March 6, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/09/2024_0910-migrant-boat-400x300.jpg)
Borders Are Drawn to Protect Stolen Wealth. They Are a Process, Not a Place.
From Europe to the US, politicians are expanding the violence of border policing and scapegoating migrants.
![Students sit around a table in a library](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/08/2024_0826-college-students-400x300.jpg)
To Get Students to Understand What Racism Is, I First Had to Teach What It’s Not
Fallacies of racism must be interrogated, or they will (re)produce white supremacy, both ideologically and materially.
![Hundreds of people wearing shirts reading "JEWS SAY CEASEFIRE NOW" fill Grand Central Station](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_0520-jewish-protest-grand-central-400x300.jpg)
Zionism Will Never Be a Solution to Antisemitism
Zionism has relied on strategic alliances with antisemitic ethnonationalists since its earliest days.
![Protesters and workers gather at the Union Square Park to mark International Labor Day in New York City on May 1, 2021.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/2024_0501-may-day-1-400x300.jpg)
May Day Is About Confronting the Capitalist System That Governs Our Lives
Let’s celebrate by coming together to imagine how workers’ collective power can transform the world.
![Pro-Palestinian protesters gather outside of Columbia Universit](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/04/GettyImages-2147910372-400x300.jpg)
This Is a Politicizing Moment. Let’s Spread Our Wings and Lift Up Palestine.
The wisdom of birds in flight can inspire our collective movement to flock together for Palestine's liberation.
![Indigenous protesters display signs reading "WATER IS SACRED" during an outodoor protest](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/05/2023_0531-pipeline-protest-400x300.jpg)
What Does Queer Ecological Resistance to the Mountain Valley Pipeline Look Like?
A new book explores the reclamation of Appalachian identity and interrogates settler colonialism in the region.
![People gather at Washington Square Park and march the streets with placards and Palestinian flags within a demonstration in support of Palestinians in New York City, on February 8, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/02/2024_0216-palestine-protest-400x300.jpg)
We Can’t Watch Genocide and Do Nothing. Now Is the Time for Renewed BDS.
Boycott, divestment and sanctions offer a collective way to pressure Israel toward a ceasefire and an end to apartheid.