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“Abolition Cannot Wait”: Exonerated Author Outlines Human Cost of Incarceration
If people were aware of what was being done in the name of justice, in their name, they wouldn’t sit or stand for it.
Confronting the Climate Crisis Requires Disruptive Action and Radical Healing
Disruptive climate activism is the single most effective way to intervene in the climate emergency.
GOP-Controlled Statehouses Are Lurching Right Due to Unfettered Corporate Money
Corporate spending unleashed by “Citizens United” is to blame for the stampede to the far right in state governments.
We Must Unlearn the Lie That State Violence Is Inherently Legitimate
“There is no alternative to taking on both the police and the far right simultaneously,” says Kelly Hayes.
We Have No Option But Hope: Noam Chomsky Talks With David Barsamian
We must have "optimism of the will," using the opportunities available to fight for a more just world, Chomsky says.
Reimagining the Commons Is One Step Toward a Future Without Police
This is about far more than access to goods and services; it’s about a new conception of community and social relations.
“The Earth Is Telling Us It’s Exhausted”: An Interview With Poet Natalie Diaz
How we iterate or commodify things flies in the face of what the land told the human body to become, says Diaz.
Native Sovereignty Over Abortion Was Already Under Attack Before Roe’s Overturn
Sterilization and abortion restrictions made clear we can’t gain full reproductive justice without tribal sovereignty.
Many Nations Have Used COVID to Impose the Tyranny of Transnational Capital
The “new normal” rammed during the pandemic involves increasingly obscene power held by transnational corporations.
How Can We Organize in Ways That Challenge Boundaries and Defy Exclusion?
Our organizing must be grounded in -- not bounded by -- local conditions, argues Ruth Wilson Gilmore.