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Design Firm Wants to Build “Feminist” Jails and Prisons. Abolitionists Say “No.”
You will never find healing when you are isolated from those that help you feel cared for, says organizer Kami Beckford.
Sanders: “It Is Absolutely Imperative” for Progressives to Not Back Down
“The overall struggle that we are engaged in is not complicated. It is to struggle for justice in the deepest sense.”
Abortion Ban Stalls in West Virginia After Protesters Pack Hearings and Capitol
West Virginians are showing the fight for reproductive justice and bodily autonomy can still be won in the South.
We Can’t Build Real Power by Defending Democrats. We Must Organize From Below.
Our current crises are structural, and relying on the Democrats and the Constitution is not going to save us.
Chomsky: US Government’s Nonresponse to Climate Crisis Has Historical Precedent
Combating the climate crisis must be a common effort, everywhere, says Noam Chomsky.
Young Workers Are Bridging the Climate and Labor Movements
Ongoing organizing in the labor movement could have enormous implications for curbing the climate crisis.
Mutual Aid Groups That Arose During COVID Gather to Build Power Regionally
Durable mutual aid networks prioritize building relationships around anti-authoritarian, anti-capitalist values.
To Build the World We Desire, We Must Dream Deeply Together
“This is a great time to get with your people,” says Tanuja Jagernauth.
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.
Hope Is Not a Given. We Must Cultivate It Together.
Kelly Hayes and Tanuja Jagernauth discuss the practice of hope.