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It's Going Down
Lipstick On A Pig: White Anxiety, Anti-Blackness, and Gun Violence
America is breaking down.
Everywhere we turn, we see crisis after crisis. Workers unable to afford rent in cities where they work several jobs. The crumbling of infrastructure leading to undrinkable water. Growing levels of...
As Afrin Falls, the World Rises for Rojava
The city of Afrin has fallen in recent days, as Turkish fighters, backed by former ISIS and Jihadi forces, have taken over and occupied the city. Thousands of refugees have fled, as Turkish troops began...
IGD Sacramento: Sac Town Shuts it Down for #StephonClark
On March 18th, Stephon Clark, a 22 year old father of two, died after Sacramento Police shot him 20 times in his grandmother's yard. As Vox wrote:
According to a press release from the Sacramento...
This Declining American Life: On the Shifting Terrain of Empire
In this episode of the It's Going Down podcast, we speak with two ongoing IGD contributors Peter Gelderloos and Scott Campbell about the shifting terrain of US empire globally as well as internally. Touching...
The Return of the Strike and Lessons for the Future
In this episode of the It's Going Down podcast, we speak with two members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), about both looking back on the West Virginia teachers strike as well...
Looking Back on the California Student Occupation Movement
In this episode of the It's Going Down podcast, we talk with a participant in the worker-student occupation movement that exploded in California in the fall of 2009 to the spring of 2010. With...
All the News You Didn’t Even Know Was Going Down
The political crisis grows in DC, as Jeff Sessions fired the Deputy Director of the FBI. In response:
Former CIA Director John Brennan, speaking for much of the intelligence apparatus, replied to the McCabe firing...
What You Need to Know About Afrin and March 24th
"We all live together in Syria as Arabs, Kurds, Syriacs in brotherhood. The invasion of the Turkish state is aimed at our unity. We have to oppose that together. The Syrian state does not...
Three Sisters Camp Digs in to Resist the Atlantic Coast Pipeline
The following video announces the start of a public campaign against the Atlantic Coast Pipeline in so-called Virginia.
The video communique reads:
Greetings, from so-called Virginia.
The unholy and hated corporate leviathan known as Dominion Energy has...
Camp Cloud: “This is a Call For Boots On the Ground” Against Kinder Morgan
Last weekend in so-called British Columbia, up to ten thousand converged against the construction of a Kinder Morgan pipeline. However, there are also ongoing direct action campaigns on the ground, such as Camp Cloud...