If the left wants to build a mass movement that appeals to millions, we first have to address the tiny, vocal minority in our ranks holding all of us back.
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Landmark Lawsuit Claims Monsanto Hid Cancer Danger of Weedkiller for Decades
A California groundskeeper will make history by taking the company to trial on claims it suppressed harm of Roundup.
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We Are Living Through A Golden Age of Protest
We are seeing a level of organizing with little precedent – but it’s time for stronger forms of demonstration, such as sit-ins and street blockades.
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What Progressives Can Learn From Stacey Abrams
A brighter political future depends upon turning out large numbers of voters of color.
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Rebel Cities 4: In Warsaw, "Rights to the City" Means Clean Air and Affordable Homes
The Right to the City is a core ingredient in the radical municipalist movement now spreading across cities worldwide, driven in Warsaw by local issues like air pollution and unaffordable rents.
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North Carolina Teachers Strike, Demanding Higher Pay and Better Funding
Teachers from 20 school districts across the state held a strike that affected around 700,000 students, as teachers demanded an increase in per-pupil funding to the national average and raises in teacher pay.
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With March on Harrisburg, the "Blue Wave" Gathers Force in Pennsylvania
We aren’t meant to believe that what we do, or what we march for, or who we elect, on the local level, has any real larger-scale consequences. March on Harrisburg is attempting to change that.
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'Time for a Moral Confrontation': Poor People's Campaign Launches With Local Rallies Nationwide
The campaign, with an emphasis on voter mobilization and civil disobedience, will include 40 days of demonstrations culminating in a massive protest on June 23 in Washington, D.C.
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Mother's Day Reality: More Employed Single Mothers Are Poor in Today's America
More than a quarter of single mothers living without partners or parents are now in poverty, and almost twice as many women as men are likely to live in poverty at some point.
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Rebel Cities 3: Zapatistas Are Still Trailblazing Worlds Beyond Neoliberalism
Everything changed on New Year's Day 1994, when Zapatistas took autonomous control of their land in Chiapas, southern Mexico. In the 24 years since, they have exported their organizing model worldwide.
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8 Lessons for Today’s Youth-Led Movements From a Decade of Youth Climate Organizing
Like all large movements, youth climate activism has had its successes and setbacks, its enormously inspiring moments and others when it failed to live up to its ideals.
