How US Activists Are Infiltrating Israeli Events Selling Palestinian Land
Outside of a synagogue in West Orange, New Jersey, a hundred people with PAL-Awda NY/NJ, a local Palestinian rights organization, gathered to protest an Israeli real estate event taking place there on...
View ArticleLos Angeles Firefighters Begged the City Not to Cut Funding
The Los Angeles Fire Department knew it was severely underfunded long before this fire. “We don’t have enough firefighters and medics, we don’t have enough fire engines, we don’t have enough trucks and...
View ArticleLongshore Deal Secures New Automation Language and Big Pay Bump
The International Longshoremen’s Association has settled its East and Gulf Coast contract shortly before a January 15 strike deadline. The deal locks in a 62 percent wage increase over six years and...
View ArticleSewa, The Union Empowering Informal Women Workers Through Co-ops
Ahmedabad, a city with a population of 7.4m, is renowned for its cotton textiles – an industry which saw it dubbed the Manchester of India. This thriving sector relied on informal women workers, who in...
View ArticleAmid Reactionary Backlash, We Must Reinvigorate Our Movement for Racial Justice
The early days of the COVID-19 shutdown necessitated a particular stillness. In the quiet and uncertainty of the pandemic’s first months, there was more time to pay attention to what was happening in...
View ArticleWe Care For Each Other, We Fight For Each Other
Movement scholar Erica Chenoweth moderates an exchange among Kate Hess Pace of Hoosier Action, Ginny Goldman of Organizing Resilience, and Anna Duncan of the National Domestic Workers Alliance on the...
View ArticleDo Boycotts Against Israel Work? Fatima Bhutto & Omar Barghouti | Reframe
Omar Barghouti is co-founder of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, a grassroots Palestinian movement inspired by the South African anti-apartheid struggle. One of the most prominent...
View ArticleDr. Martin Luther King’s Prophetic Warning, Denouncing the Merchants of Death
Over the past three years, a collective of volunteer researchers, lawyers, and commentators created The Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal, dedicated to holding accountable four weapon...
View ArticleMultipolar Mythmaking, Mixing Western Degeneracy and BRICS Expansion Chaos
Early 2025 is already a tough time for those expecting the consolidation of a multipolar alternative to polycrisis-riddled, Western-dominated, neoliberal multilateralism. It was especially dispiriting...
View ArticleWhere Urban Fault Lines Run Deep, Solidarity Cities Take Root
Contemporary debates about capitalism and its alternatives often fall into two traps: either portraying economic life as so fully saturated by (racial) capitalism that alternatives are rendered...
View ArticleSolidarity with the Class of 2024 as Matriculation Results are Announced
In a just society, every child would be received as a gift and supported to grow and flourish. However, young people in South Africa face conditions of extreme crisis. Millions of children experience...
View ArticleBeating Wall Street at Its Own Game — The Bank of North Dakota Model
North Dakota is staunchly conservative, having voted Republican in every presidential election since Lyndon Johnson in 1964. So how is it that the state boasts the only state-owned bank in the nation?...
View ArticleHow Ballot Measure Organizers Fight to Defend Their Wins
Missouri’s Proposition A, the 2024 ballot measure to increase the state’s minimum wage to $15 per hour and guarantee paid sick leave for workers. This election, Missouri voters also approved Amendment...
View ArticleWhat Challenges do Syrian Refugees Face After Resettlement?
Since the eruption of the Syrian civil war in 2011, millions of Syrians have fled their country, seeking refuge in neighboring countries and beyond. Thirteen years on, a significant number of these...
View ArticleWe Have the Tools to Solve Homelessness — Lawmakers Refuse to Use Them
Homelessness has risen sharply since 2023, new data show. The research is clear: rental assistance promotes housing stability and is key to solving homelessness. Reducing, and ultimately solving,...
View ArticleAdvocates Demand Eviction Moratorium, Rent Freeze as LA Landlords ‘Cash in on...
With some Los Angeles-area landlords jacking up rental listing prices by 50% or more as historic wildfires rage, housing advocates in the nation’s second-largest city are calling for an immediate...
View ArticleUkrainian Neutrality Is Still the Key to Peace
President-elect Trump said on January 9th that he is planning a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin about the war in Ukraine. He said “Putin wants to meet,” because “we have to get that war...
View ArticleHow U.S. Media Hide Truths About the Gaza War
A few days before the end of 2024, the independent magazine +972 reported that “Israeli army forces stormed the Kamal Adwan Hospital compound in Beit Lahiya, culminating a nearly week-long siege of the...
View ArticleMusk Aims to Lead the Far-Right International
Elon Musk spent more than a quarter billion dollars to back Trump and other MAGA Republican candidates. He did so not simply because he has a lot to gain from Trump’s presidency, which he does, but...
View ArticleMexico’s ‘Yes to Disarmament, Yes to Peace’ Program
The Mexican government of Claudia Sheinbaum has launched the National Voluntary Disarmament Plan ‘Yes to disarmament, Yes to peace’, a program that aims to get the population to surrender their...
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