The year 2020 has caused many white people to realize we live in a racist system. The Green New Deal is about systemic change for all, and deconstructing racism must be front and central in this agenda.
Waging Nonviolence
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When the Next Crisis Comes, Which Movements Will Seize the Opportunity?
Crisis equals opportunity, for those who are ready to use it.
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Olympia’s Homeless Win Struggle for Permanent Housing
With the opening of Quixote Village, the six-year struggle waged by the homeless has paid off.
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How Defending Private Intelligence Firm Collaborators Screws Grassroots Activists
Collaborating with such an insidious firm is bad enough, but defending that collaborator in spite of all the evidence that’s been made public is irresponsible and potentially hazardous to activists in the long run.
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Student Issues, Student Power: Whose Future? Our Future!
As U.S. student activism remains strikingly dormant and fragmented, campus organizers are grappling to find the means to mobilize their peers into movements large enough to effect change.
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Guatemala's Communities in Resistance Continue to Blockade Gold Mine
A woman’s spontaneous act of civil disobedience quickly grew into a community-based, peaceful resistance movement where men, women and children have spent 24 hours a day, seven days a week for over 10 months blockading a mine.
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Wildcat Winter: How the Walmart Labor Struggle is Going Global
The 2.1 million Walmart workers constitute the third-largest workforce in the world, following the U.S. Department of Defense and the People’s Liberation Army of China. And they are revolting.
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Montana Coal Protesters Argue Necessity Defense
After decades of failed efforts to curb climate change through traditional politics, many climate activists now believe civil disobedience is as much a moral imperative as breaking into a burning building.
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Occupy Homes: One Year on and Growing Daily
Building on a year filled with eviction blockades, house takeovers and singing auction blockades, the anniversary of Occupy Homes demonstrated that the group was still committed to risking arrest to keep people sheltered.
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Russian Opposition Resolute Amid Crackdowns
In order to represent real alternative power, the opposition needs to finally reach unified consensus and act consistently.
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Off Our Computers and Into the Streets!
There are many innovations changing how we think about what online organizing is capable of - and building clear pathways to support offline, real-world actions.
