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What Do Authoritarians Fear Most? People Who Stick Up for Each Other.
The most reliable form of resilience is not individual wealth or distant institutions, but solidarity.
How a Mutual Aid Network Built Direct Support for Migrants Across Minnesota
“There’s nothing like getting to give someone their rent money,” says mutual aid organizer Ashley Fairbanks.
The Web Is Not Enough — Why These Left Media Workers Are Opening Physical Spaces
Corporations control the internet, so grassroots media workers are creating in-person spaces to build collective power.
The Love We See in Minneapolis Isn’t Exceptional — It’s How We Survive Together
A beautiful web is being woven in Minnesota: not with new materials but with wisdom that was already here.
The Trauma of ICE Raids Is Rippling Through Public Schools Across the US
ICE raids have left children stranded without caregivers after school bus drop-off. Abductions traumatize whole schools.
Minneapolis Community Defense Is “Riding on the Learning Edge of a Whirlwind”
“We are becoming the people that we always knew that we needed to be,” says Minneapolis organizer Andrew Fahlstrom.
After the Devastation of Trump’s First Year, These Popular Rebellions Offer Hope
Elections, labor, mutual aid, and local organizing wins in 2025 point to strategies that can work in the coming year.
Minneapolis’s 2020 Uprising Laid an Abolitionist Groundwork for ICE Resistance
The George Floyd uprising laid foundations for the politicized networks of care that are organizing against ICE now.
Amid ICE Raids We Continue to Organize — That’s How We Refuse to Disappear
The answer to ICE raids isn’t isolation. We must keep organizing to meet material needs and protect people’s dignity.
Disability Justice Organizers Are Creating the Liberatory Future We All Deserve
Organizers share where they find hope in the struggle for disability justice as we go into the second year of Trump 2.0.