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“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.
Heritage Foundation Has a Plan to Take Down the Palestine Solidarity Movement
Project Esther proposes to identify the Palestine solidarity movement as the “Hamas Support Network.”
Activists’ Alternative to COP29 Brings Frontline Communities Together
Feeling excluded from the UN climate summits, organizers say the solutions that come out of them can harm communities.
Let’s Translate Our Outrage Over Trumpism Into Action
There is no better antidote to hopelessness than action in community.
How Must We Reorient Our Movements Under a Second Trump Administration?
It is crucial that we rethink our approach to direct action in a potentially authoritarian, dictatorial context.
Let’s Move Beyond Blame to Fight for Each Other in the Face of Fascism
While principled critiques are often necessary, let’s communicate like people who still need each other — because we do.
10 Ways We Can Prepare for Another Trump Presidency
We must resist perpetuating the autocrat’s goals of fear, isolation, exhaustion and disorientation.
To Transform Our Trauma, We Must Nurture Movements for Change
“PTSD, in many ways, works like a time machine,” says healing justice practitioner Chiara Galimberti.
Keeping Each Other Alive: Mental Health and Collective Survival
“We cannot become what it is that has harmed us in the first place,” says Elliott Fukui.
The Right Wants Us to Submit to Nihilism. Here Is Where I’m Searching for Hope.
Right-wing forces benefit if we succumb to the idea that nothing can change and that no action makes a difference.