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Progressive Picks
Books and films that we find thought-provoking and insightful.
Love and Perseverance Keep Communities Whole in the Face of Mass Consumerism
A new graphic novel tells a multidimensional love story that is personal as well as political.
Preserving a Community Is a Labor of Love
Author and artist Tiitu Takalo illustrates the perseverance required to be a part of a community.
White Supremacy Tried to Kill Jazz. The Music Triumphed.
Historian Gerald Horne discusses his new book “Jazz and Justice: Racism and the Political Economy of the Music.”
Trump Is Repackaging His Brand of Neoliberalism as Economic Nationalism
We must fight the U.S.’s economically brutal manipulation of the global market, says author T.J. Coles.
We Need a People’s Globalization to Defeat Global Neoliberalism
Global free trade hurts working people, but global unions can empower them.
1970s Activism Laid Foundation for Today’s Prison Abolitionist Feminism
Grassroots feminist activism in the 1970s resisted the inclusion of imprisonment and policing in their struggles.
How Feminists Resisted Prisons and Policing in the 1970s
"All Our Trials" offers a history of feminists who challenged the idea that the state could end gender violence.
Bringing Police Torture in Chicago to the Full Light of Day
Flint Taylor's "The Torture Machine" is a personal history of the legal battle to expose Chicago's human rights abuses.
Chicago Police Tortured Victims With Electric Shocks, Burns and Beatings
Under Commander Jon Burge, Black men endured torture and violence at the hands of Chicago police.
While Combating Trump, We Must Set Our Sights on Total Liberation
Cartoonist Nick Thorkelson discusses the life, career and theories of Herbert Marcuse.