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A close-up photo of a white, blonde female protester in Portland, Oregon. She is wearing a protective helmet, sunglasses, and a face mask concealing her mouth and nose.

A Return to Leftist Self-Defense

Communities targeted by escalating right-wing violence are learning from their own histories how to keep each other safe.

Shane Burley | Nov 11, 2024

Cop Cities Meet Growing Resistance Nationwide

Faced with the spread of militarized police training facilities known as "cop cities," grassroots activists are taking the call to #DefundPolice to cities nationwide.

Victoria Valenzuela | Oct 4, 2024

Reviving Asian American Solidarity

Right-wing forces are recruiting Asian Americans. Here鈥檚 how community members are countering this growing extremism.

Cathy Dang, Roksana Mun | Sep 17, 2024

Analysis | Native Rights | climate lawsuit | Indigenous youth | Climate Change

Environmental Justice as Birthright

On Aug. 8, 2023, 13-year-old Kaliko was getting ready for her hula class at her mother鈥檚 house in West Maui. The power was out, and she heard there was a

Anita Hofschneider | Aug 24, 2024

Youth Take J.D. Vance to Task on Climate

Community organizers with the Sunrise Movement explain why they protested outside the GOP Vice Presidential hopeful鈥檚 office.

| Aug 1, 2024

Analysis | Supreme Court | Gaza | protest | Free Gaza Encampments

Why Protest Works鈥擡ven When It鈥檚 Unpopular

High-profile, disruptive protests can lead to increased polarization鈥攂ut often still yield increased public support for the protest鈥檚 goals, even if the tactics are criticized.

Mark Engler, Paul Engler | Jul 26, 2024

Pride Is Power: How Queer People Are Defeating Anti-LGBTQ Laws

Faced with unprecedented numbers of anti-LGBTQ bills, queer people are taking to the state houses, courts, and communities to prove that love wins.

Sara Youngblood Gregory | Jun 24, 2024

Can Elections Still Help Defund Police?

Efforts to invest in 鈥渃are, not cops鈥� continue in advance of the 2024 election鈥攁lbeit at a slower pace than in 2020.

Marianne Dhenin | Jun 20, 2024

Video | Immigration | Anti-Blackness | 猫咪社区! Presents: Rising Up with Sonali | Organizing

Toward a Multiracial Immigrants鈥� Rights Movement

A formerly undocumented Salvadorian American immigrant and organizer assesses how the immigrants鈥� rights movement can address anti-Blackness and white supremacy.

| May 31, 2024

Christine Ahn and Marie Berry report back from the powerful Feminist Peace Summit, held in Denver recently.

Feminism Is About Justice, Not War

Christine Ahn and Marie Berry report back from the powerful Feminist Peace Summit, held in Denver recently.

| May 23, 2024

Gen Z鈥檚 Political Paradox

Zoomers are connected to political issues but disconnected to voting. A young reporter explores the reasons why this is true and what it will take to boost youth voter turnout.

Lajward Zahra | May 2, 2024

Surprising Solidarity in the Fight for Clean Water and Justice on O鈥檃hu

After a 2021 leak at the U.S. military鈥檚 Red Hill fuel storage facility poisoned thousands, activists, Native Hawaiians, and affected military families have become unlikely allies in the fight for accountability.

Libby Leonard | Feb 19, 2024

A photo of student protests, detail on megaphone with the Palestinian flag over it.

The Palestine Exception to Campus Free Speech

Writing under a pseudonym to protect herself, a high school student details the intimidation she and her peers have faced from schools for protesting the Gaza genocide.

Aila Haqq | Dec 20, 2023

Murmurations: There Will Be Living, After All

If we do not turn away from our grief, we can use it to craft armor, building a new demographic that will rise from the rubble to dance like dust.

Malkia Devich-Cyril | Dec 19, 2023

A Jewish American Says 鈥淣ot in My Name!鈥�

Many Jewish Americans鈥攊ncluding the thousands who have been arrested protesting Israel鈥檚 war on Gaza鈥攃onsider solidarity with Palestinians to be a moral imperative.

Penny Rosenwasser | Nov 30, 2023

Native Water Warriors Help Delay U.S. Warship, in Solidarity with Palestinians

Coast Salish water warriors in canoes delayed a U.S. military ship believed to be carrying weapons from the Port of Tacoma to Israel.

Luna Reyna | Nov 20, 2023

Video | Climate Change | 猫咪社区! Presents: Rising Up with Sonali | Rising Up with Sonali | Climate Defiance

How Young Climate Activists Are Confronting Power

A newly formed organization called Climate Defiance is challenging the Biden administration to live up to its climate change promises.

| Oct 5, 2023

Opinion | climate protest | climate activism

The Radicalization of Climate Activism

The climate emergency is here. Our political system isn鈥檛 responding at scale, so climate activists are stepping up their game.

Chuck Collins | Sep 29, 2023

Opinion

Eros and the Revolution: Why Activism Needs Pleasure

Punishing ourselves through the deprivation of rest and pleasure won鈥檛 get us free.

Gabes Torres | Sep 26, 2023

Illustration of hand holding a microphone

Excerpt | Native Stories | Native Culture

The Power of Humor in Indigenous Activism

Native activists are using comedy to fight cultural invisibility and structural oppression.

Caty Borum | May 9, 2023

Good Care for Good Trouble

Three ways to practice community care for movement organizers, unionizers, and other folks on the ground keeping good trouble going.

Gabes Torres | May 4, 2023

Opinion | Poetry | Black Poetry | Racial Justice

June Jordan鈥檚 Legacy of Solidarity and Love Remains Relevant

The late poet and activist鈥檚 legacy lives on decades after her untimely death鈥攊n the purposeful lives of her former students.

Sriram Shamasunder | Feb 13, 2023

Favianna Rodriguez poses for a photograph at her studio

Hopeful Signs of Climate Culture Shift at COP27

Favianna Rodriguez says the cultural successes at COP27 overshadow the political failures.

Breanna Draxler | Nov 23, 2022

Opinion | Reproductive Justice | Roe v. Wade | Abortion

The Political Power of Pro-Choice Protests

In the wake of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, protests remind the Left how political change happens.

Dr. Nolan Higdon, Mickey Huff | Jul 19, 2022

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