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An Interview With Social Movement Leader and Parliamentarian Estela Hernandez
Estela Hernandez is a leader of La Coordinadora and its affiliated nonprofit organization, the Mangrove Association.
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#BlackLivesMatter: Because to Many, They Don’t
We are having a harder time accepting the reality that these protections, these rights, these freedoms, do not exist for everyone.
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Police Violence? Body Cams Are No Solution
Body cams are an inadequate response to police violence. Real transparency and reform are required.
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Let’s Begin the Year With a Major Victory Over Corporate Power
“Building power together” means working together as a movement of movements to build on the progress of 2014 when people created a larger and bolder movement.
An Interview With Sherry Payne: Nurse, Childbirth Educator, Womanist
This is injustice at its most fundamental level.
Chicago Rising: This Year in Struggle
As activists and organizers, we live in opposition to that which is an affront to our humanity and our beliefs, and we do so while building both community and …
Peace Parenting and Nonviolent Resistance: the Berrigan Generations
This is a tender but frank recollection of a childhood in tumultous times in the house that was Ground Zero of nonviolent resistance to the war in Vietnam, to …
The Brutes in Blue: From Ferguson to Freedom
The institutionalization of racism, slavery, and policing predates the formation of the United States itself.
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Why Movements Should Care About Azealia Banks
The #BlackLivesMatter movement is quickly creating a national context whereby celebrities across industries are being forced to take sides.
New York City Activists Mobilize for Right to Counsel in Eviction
New York City may become the first to provide free legal representation to low-income tenants facing eviction.