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The options are endless, and do not include the counterproductive tools of violence
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I still have faith in juries of ordinary people when fully informed to make "just" decisions even if necessitating deviation from the law
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Jilani: Converting White Supremacists Using Compassion
Life After Hate is a Chicago-based nonprofit founded by former white supremacist that studies the forces that draw people to hate and helps those who are willing to disengage from radical extremist movements
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La Canfora: Michael Bennett wants you to listen
The son of a military veteran isn't backing down from his anthem protest, and the Seahawks have his back
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Barber: Southerners on New Ground’s bail out
Southerners on New Ground raised over $200,000 to free 64 Black women from jails across the South — some who had been there for as long as 451 days simply because they could not afford to post bail
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Beating Big Business & Business Unionism
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Lerner: Staying Power of Racism After Charlottesville
When a Left starts to talk about a world based on love and justice, and shows genuine compassion for those not yet in their ranks
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In These Times: Ousting Corporations from Election
A community rights group in Youngstown, Ohio, is attempting to amend their city’s charter in order to ban corporate interference in their local elections
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Healing and building are where the bulk of our energies belong right now, because getting our shit together is a task more important than any one action, and in this moment, I am terrified of what failure looks like
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Farthing: Evo’s Bolivia: the Limits of Change
Radical social change will not happen unless these movements are active and independent
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La Botz: Successful Convention Moves DSA to Left
The socialist movement in the United States took a big step forward
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Brown: Ecuador’s “citizen revolution”
The Correa years present ample material for the study of the relationship between social movements and the state and underscore the question of what is gained or lost when radical change is pursued through the existing structures of the state
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Early: Diverse, Radical and Resisting
At Local Progress’s 150-person meet-up, left-leaning politicians from around the country share plans to build rebel cities
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This strike is about the bigger fight between corporations and workers. I believe this is part of a war being waged against organized labor, and the corporations' efforts are only increasing
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It remains to be seen whether we have reached a tipping point for players concerned not just about brain injuries, but their right to speak freely
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Natividad: Guam: Resistance Grows to US Military
For decades, residents of Guam have resisted the militarization and colonization of their homeland by the United States
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Ellner: Social Programs in Venezuela
The Chavista government’s social programs evidence the tensions between institutional checks and radical democracy
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Pettifor: Economic crash, ten years on
A decade after the start of the crash, economic power is in our hands – we must take it
ZMag Activism
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An independent Third Force must be multifaceted with the capacity to utilize community organizing, campaigns around issues, protests, marches, demonstrations, boycotts, elections and policy advocacy to advance a vision/mission and agenda for transformative change
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Brecher: Social Self Defense, Part Two
Social Self-Defense is not an organization—it is a set of practices to be engaged in by myriad organizations, hopefully in close coordination with each other. It draws both on established and newly emerging organizations. The community assemblies in Brooklyn, Los Angeles, Montpelier, and many other locations illustrate how new organizations can arise for Social Self-Defen
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Barrington-Bush: Solidarity Ecosystems
Over time, you notice that beneath VIO.ME’s sometimes mundane veneer, a series of radical changes are taking place. These are changes that offer alternatives to how we organize work, community and society at large.
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Pope-Weidemann: Cities of Sanctuary
Racial justice activist Marienna Pope-Weidemann speaks to Peter Pedemonti, co-founder...
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Grossman: Fusing Identity and Class Politics in “Trumpland”
We should begin to ask ourselves: if we lived in Europe during the rise of fascism in the 1920s or early 1930s, what would we actually do to stop it?
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Benjamin: Opposing war and militarism
Speaking about the urgent need for grassroots movements to oppose war and militarism in the U.S. and around the world
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Interview on a wide range of topics, from the development of his personal political views to the control of information and media
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Barghouthi: Jerusalem Protests
The deadly Israeli crackdown on Palestinians protesting restrictions at Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque is part of an effort to divide the holy site and undermine the Palestinian struggle for freedom
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Contributors: Climate Insurgency Webinar
An introduction to the Climate Insurgency strategy framework, which weaves together many strands of climate organizing
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Fletcher: The Future of the Labour Movement
Trump, Right-Wing Populism, and the Future of the Labour Movement
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