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If Schools Reopen This Fall, More People Will Likely Die. Full Stop.
We are dangerously unready to thrust millions of children into the enclosed close-quarters reality of school.
If Governments Believe So Much in Nonviolence, They Should Try It
It’s time governments led by example and stopped using armed police as the go-to solution for societal problems.
Trump’s Reelection Kick-Off Fell Flat. Does He Really Want to Be President?
Trump laid down his marker on stolen land this weekend, and intimidated precisely nobody.
Antiracism Must Be a Priority in Every Newsroom
Racism in the newsroom cannot be swept under the rug once racial injustice leaves the top mainstream headlines.
Minor League Teams Could Be Latest Casualties of COVID’s Disaster Capitalism
We may be looking at a dramatic and pro-corporate restructuring of baseball as an industry.
Police Reform Hasn’t Stopped the Killings Before. It Won’t Now Either.
Police reform is a time-honored counterinsurgency measure to quell rebellion.
The Fourth of July Must Be a Day of Protest Against White Supremacy
Instead of celebrating a false historical narrative of liberty and justice for all, we should be out in the streets.
No One Should Have to Die in Prison
Thousands languish and die in prison because of bureaucratic hurdles and a lack of political will to fix the system.
Without Radical Community Education, We Won’t Move Beyond “Comfortable” Reforms
Community education cannot be considered an “add-on” -- we must center it as an integral part of our ongoing organizing.
July Fourth Never Meant Anything to a Disabled Black Woman Like Me
I cannot celebrate a country that has systematically disenfranchised Black people and has written off disabled people.