Beyond Refuge: Empowering Rohingya to Lead Their Own Future
“The vast majority of my people are in refugee camps or in apartheid villages, struggling every day just to make a living… They deserve to have a biography, not someone like me, living in Canada with a...
View ArticleNext American Revolution #14: Vision 2
In which Andre Goldman, Reverend Stephen Du Bois, Bert Dillinger, and Lydia Luxembourg discuss RPS economic, ecological, and international vision. [Author’s Note: This is the fourtheen excerpt froma...
View ArticleGlobal Wealth Tax Could Raise $2.1 Trillion Annually for Climate Action and More
With countries set to focus heavily on climate finance for the Global South at the 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference in November, the Tax Justice Network on Monday offered a proposal that...
View ArticleFrance Avoids Disaster. Can the Olympics Do the Same?
The stage was set for the far right to hijack the Olympic Games. On the eve of France’s legislative elections, it seemed like the country was about to lurch closer to fascism than at any time since the...
View ArticleDiaries from Systemic Crumble
This article is part of ZNetwork.org‘s series, Activist Diaries. The metabolic fault-line is open. Just bang the hammer. And capitalism will collapse. I live in one of the most contaminated areas on...
View ArticleThe DNC Fiddles While the World Burns
An Orwellian disconnect haunts the 2024 Democratic National Convention. In the isolation of the convention hall, shielded from the outside world behind thousands of armed police, few of the delegates...
View ArticlePiñon Dark Horse Fire Reveals How Oil Industry Environmental ‘Solution’ Spurs...
The trouble began at Piñon Midstream’s Dark Horse Treating Plant in Jal, New Mexico, on November 25, 2023, with an unexpected loud “pop” in the early afternoon, the company would later tell state...
View ArticleFormer IDF Soldier, Former Hamas Member and Active Duty U.S. Military C.O.s...
A group of former fighters from Palestine and Israel plus active duty U.S. G.I.s announced last week why they decided to stop participating in war and urged U.S. military members to tell Congress to...
View ArticleKenya Protests: A Wake-Up Call to a Failing International Financial Architecture
Protests ignited by recent IMF-backed reforms in Kenya show no signs of abating. Demonstrations began in June when Kenyan president William Ruto proposed taxes on essential goods including food, health...
View ArticleUS Calls for Ceasefire: Sudan’s Peace Process at a Crossroads
The recent initiative led by the United States (US), Saudi Arabia, and Switzerland to mediate a cease fire in Sudan represents a crucial effort to address the conflict that has erupted since April...
View ArticleThey Came For Us and Soon They Will Come For You
Note: This letter was written from Wayland prison. I was wrong. When the recent trial started for what is now called the Whole Truth Five (#WTF), I naively thought I would walk free, that I would not...
View ArticleRichard Medhurst and the Right to Armed Resistance
We were waiting for Richard Medhurst to arrive and join our panel at the Beautiful Days festival, when he was arrested and imprisoned for 23.5 hours. Obviously we were all worried sick about him. It is...
View ArticleOnly the Delegates Are ‘Uncommitted’: Layla Elabed and Elianne Farhat
“We are reminding the Democratic Party that we have to unite the base who right now are fractured over Gaza, because 80% of Democrats support a permanent ceasefire and somewhere around 63% support...
View ArticleBreaking Down the Far Right: Strategies for Resistance
The far-right riots last week in the UK were batted aside by many liberal commentators as an inconvenience. A spontaneous, misinformed outburst of social media and “thugs”. In reality, they were a...
View ArticleGlencore’s Israeli-bound Coal Becomes the Next Test of South Africa’s...
Israel’s fossil-energy supply is among the most damaging components contributing to the genocide underway in Gaza – and to its longer-term maintenance of apartheid, including land-grab settlements in...
View ArticleCountering the DNC: A Vigil for Gaza
The Democratic National Convention was happening here in Chicago — my city — and I sat frozen at my desk, staring at my computer. Earlier in my life, yeah, I’d have gone down to the United Center,...
View ArticleDefeating the Fascists Is the First Order of Business
As we approach the 2024 presidential election, we are constantly told that this election is pivotal for the future of democracy. This may be so because a second Trump presidency would most likely be...
View ArticleWhat Would a Real Renewable Energy Transition Look Like?
Humanity’s transition from relying overwhelmingly on fossil fuels to instead using alternative low-carbon energy sources is sometimes said to be unstoppable and exponential. A boosterish attitude on...
View ArticleStriking is in the Air at Boeing
Mondays and Wednesdays are loud at the vast Boeing factory in Everett, Washington. As the Machinists’ contract campaign heats up, the workforce has been serenading management at lunch with air horns,...
View ArticleHurricane Exxon? Hurricane Ted Cruz?
Attribution science provides solid evidence that global warming increases the fury of storms. Let’s name hurricanes for the men behind the damage. I don’t know who Debby is, but I’m willing to bet she...
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