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Hit Hard by Toxic Smoke and COVID-19, This Chicago Neighborhood Fought Back
Kelly Hayes talks with activist and organizer Juliana Pino about environmental racism in the time of COVID-19.
Adventures in Digital Organizing With Mariame Kaba
Kelly Hayes talks with activist Mariame Kaba about storytelling and building power.
Black Scholar Jill Nelson Arrested for Chalking “Trump = Plague” in New York
The 67-year-old scholar was handcuffed, taken to the police station and held for five hours.
Indigenous Leadership Points the Way Out of the COVID Crisis
Indigenous communities already operate informal economies set up to sustain them amid government ineptitude and neglect.
Target, Amazon, Instacart Workers Demand Safe Conditions and Pandemic Relief
This May Day, an unprecedented coalition of essential workers are calling out sick or walking out.
COVID-19 Underscores Why We Need to Make May Day Radical Again
The pandemic has made clear that our survival depends on rejecting our life of precarious drudgery under capitalism.
Big Insurance Is Propping Up Big Oil. Activists Say It’s Time to Pull the Plug.
The insurance industry continues to cover new oil pipelines amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Activists are fighting back.
HIV Prison Activists Are Leading a Freedom Movement in the Face of COVID-19
People who have long organized against HIV in prisons are demanding the release of incarcerated people amid COVID-19.
Harlem Hospital Nurses Demand Better Protection Amid Pandemic
At Harlem Hospital Center, health care workers are expected to use one mask for five 12-hour shifts.
Undemocratic Elections Have Citizens Reinventing Self-Governance Worldwide
Citizens are creating innovative models of self-governance to counter the failures of representative democracy.