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Author Carl Gibson, is a spokesman and organizer for US Uncut, a nonviolent, creative direct-action movement to stop budget cuts by getting corporations to pay their fair share of taxes. Contact Carl on the Commons.
I’m not a terrorist or a criminal. I’m an American citizen nonviolently protesting the fact that corporations and banks can buy influence in Washington.
If we want our anti-austerity movement to be effective in reaching across all boundaries, we should organize with the disabled.
Building a committed base of volunteers to make phone calls, knock on doors and deliver tailored information to voters is the third and final step to kick your Congressman out of office next election season.
The primary goal of narrative control is to turn your Congressman’s name into a toxic brand that nobody wants to associate with.
This is how you drive rightwing extremists out of office.
If Walmart workers across a wide swath of states refuse to come to work on the company's busiest day, Black Friday, it would be a huge win for workers over corporate greed and savage consumerism.
If the police are adapting their arrest tactics, we should adapt our own tactics to protect innocent people from unlawful arrest, imprisonment, and costly court dates and attorney fees.
Until Rahm the bully stops picking on the teachers in Chicago, the kids are getting a great lesson in how effective nonviolent direct action can be -- and how invigorating it is to stand up to those who try to keep you down.
Occupy’s biggest challenge, aside from bringing down the corporatocracy, is to convince the Tea Party that they’re also the 99 percent -- that the system is screwing them just as bad as it's screwing us.
Fact: There are two things that occur more often than the right-wing myth of "voter fraud": UFO sightings and election-rigging.
Biden cared more about the appearance of having an independent DOJ untainted by politics than he did about holding an unrepentant criminal ex-president accountable.
The American people clearly spoke, and the drubbing Democrats received requires looking beyond just issue polls, voting patterns, campaign strategy, or get-out-the-vote tactics.
The recent decisions by two of the most influential national newspapers of record to not publish their endorsements of Vice President Kamala Harris says a lot about how seriously they take Trump’s threats to democracy and his promises of vengeance against his enemies.
On the eve of the historic November vote, it seems important to ask: What's wrong with men, how did we get here, and can we change this?
As Trump’s campaign grows increasingly bizarre, his team appears to be more tightly controlling his movements and carefully scripting his public appearances to minimize the negative impact his erratic behavior may have on undecided voters in swing states.
Biden cared more about the appearance of having an independent DOJ untainted by politics than he did about holding an unrepentant criminal ex-president accountable.
The country has never moved as close to the course it took under Benito Mussolini as it is doing now — and even if Meloni is not a neo-fascist politician, she has put herself in a position to appeal to and broaden fascism's political base.
The American people clearly spoke, and the drubbing Democrats received requires looking beyond just issue polls, voting patterns, campaign strategy, or get-out-the-vote tactics.
The recent decisions by two of the most influential national newspapers of record to not publish their endorsements of Vice President Kamala Harris says a lot about how seriously they take Trump’s threats to democracy and his promises of vengeance against his enemies.
On the eve of the historic November vote, it seems important to ask: What's wrong with men, how did we get here, and can we change this?
On the eve of the historic November vote, it seems important to ask: What's wrong with men, how did we get here, and can we change this?
Former President Donald Trump is now openly fantasizing about deputizing death squads against Americans.
Throughout history, fascist governments have had a similar reliance on the use of lies as a weapon to take and retain power.
The American people clearly spoke, and the drubbing Democrats received requires looking beyond just issue polls, voting patterns, campaign strategy, or get-out-the-vote tactics.
The recent decisions by two of the most influential national newspapers of record to not publish their endorsements of Vice President Kamala Harris says a lot about how seriously they take Trump’s threats to democracy and his promises of vengeance against his enemies.
The American people clearly spoke, and the drubbing Democrats received requires looking beyond just issue polls, voting patterns, campaign strategy, or get-out-the-vote tactics.
Biden cared more about the appearance of having an independent DOJ untainted by politics than he did about holding an unrepentant criminal ex-president accountable.
The star-studded summer blockbuster has been lauded as a feminist film. But Barbie is not just pro-women—it’s also very pro-men.
"POTUS" is an acronym political journalists frequently use when talking about the President of the United States. However, "POTUS" seems a woefully soft and inadequate word to describe the current occupant of the Oval Office.
Washington Post reporter Drew Harwell talks about how Americans are welcoming surveillance devices like Ring and Nest into their homes, and — as they can now watch their front doors, babysitters, children and pets all day long — how surveillance has become normalized.