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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.
UK Uses Terrorism Law to Silence Palestine Solidarity Activists and Journalists
Amnesty International lawyer Julia Hall says the use of the UK's Terrorism Act has escalated since October 7.
In New AIDS Activist Memoir, Keiko Lane Aims to Articulate the Inexpressible
Keiko Lane was 16 when she joined ACT UP. Decades later, she describes how that activism was a kind of mutual aid.
Harsha Walia: Democratic Party Laid Groundwork for Anti-Migrant Border Policy
Author Harsha Walia analyzes how Democrats’ shift rightward is one of the “boomeranging effects” of global fascism.