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Columbia, NYU, The New School…MIT, Tufts, Emerson… Berkeley, Chicago, Chapel...
I went to MIT, class of 1969, so I was a Senior in 1968. It is now 2024 not the late sixties, but rebellion for change is again in the air. I think it is just getting revved up. I can feel it. I’ll bet...
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An Asterisk
“…what happens to your remembrancewill be of your own doing.” ZNetwork.org presents “An Asterisk”, a poem written and performed by a Z Community member. For Gaza. And for humanity. This poem is...
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Trump vs. Biden: Who Got More Done for Veterans?
From mocking John McCain’s military service to disparaging American soldiers who died abroad as “losers” and “suckers,” Donald Trump has shown plenty of disrespect to veterans over the years. By...
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Fifty Years Ago This Spring, Millions of Students Struck to End the War in...
“Tin soldiers and Nixon’s coming, We’re finally on our own. This summer, I hear the drummin’ Four dead in O-hi-o . . .” —“Ohio,” Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (1970) President Richard Nixon prided...
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More Than 4 Dozen Unions Demand ‘End of Repression’ of Columbia Protests
More than four dozen labor unions across numerous industries on Tuesday signed a letter expressing solidarity with students who have been suspended and arrested in recent days for protesting at...
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I Am a Jewish Student at Columbia. Don’t Believe What You’re Being Told About...
“Reprehensible and dangerous.” “Terrorist sympathizers.” “It’s not 1938 Berlin. It’s 2024, Columbia University, NYC.” The White House, Congressional Republicans, and cable news talking heads would have...
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The Forgotten Element in Averting Nuclear Catastrophe
What will it take to end the nuclear nightmare that has gripped the world since the atomic bombings of 1945? For a time, that nightmare seemed to have abated for, in response to massive popular...
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Handling — and Mishandling — the Iran Nuclear Program
Trump Blew Up the Deal, Can Biden Still Fix It? One, erratic and often unhinged, blew up the U.S.-Iran accord that was the landmark foreign policy achievement of President Obama’s second term. He then...
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Ukraine War Funding & Failed Russian Sanctions
This past weekend, April 20, 2024 the US House of Representatives passed a bill to provide Ukraine with another $61 billion in aid. The measure will quickly pass the Senate and be signed into law by...
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Jane McAlevey on UAW’s Astounding Victory in VW Tennessee & Her Fight Against...
Democracy Now! speaks with the celebrated labor organizer and writer Jane McAlevey about the historic victory for Volkswagen employees at a Chattanooga, Tennessee, factory who voted overwhelmingly to...
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In Philly, Cass Green Is Running Against Billionaire Cash
Today, in one of the most expensive elections in Pennsylvania State House history — in large part due to donations to the incumbent from billionaire and charter school advocate Jeffrey Yass — Cass...
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Restaurant Workers Deserve a Livable, Too
Growing up, I looked up to my father and aunt, who began restaurant industry careers after immigrating from Eritrea in the 1970s. When I started working, a restaurant job was a natural choice. While I...
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South Korean High Court Hears First-Ever Youth Climate Case in Asia
One of South Korea’s two highest courts on Tuesday began hearing Asia’s first-ever youth-led climate lawsuit, which accuses the country’s government of failing to protect citizens from the effects of...
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Uprising
Dear Z Community, Things are HAPPENING! (Check out our resource list at the bottom of this message.) Unions have been kicking some major boss-butt up and down the South, including a historic victory...
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You are Formally Invited to a Livable Future (Empty chairs will be noted)
Earth Day 2024, Washington, DC | The red carpet had been rolled out from the high doors and down the polished steps of the Mayor’s offices into Freedom Plaza. A procession of large puppets representing...
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European Elections – Three Countries
By now, many of the 370 million European voters, government officials, and political parties are gearing up for the next European election to be held between the 6th and 9th June 2024. European...
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Carceral Imperialism
“To this day I feel humiliation for what was done to me… The time I spent in Abu Ghraib — it ended my life. I’m only half a human now.” That’s what Abu Ghraib survivor Talib al-Majli had to say about...
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200 Caring People Are Ready to Sail on the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza
Morale is running high among the 200 volunteers from all over the world preparing to sail on the freedom flotilla to Gaza. If anyone has doubts about the motivations of the people taking this...
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Our Leaders Seem Determined To Give War A Chance. Their Thirst For Conflict...
The protagonists of 1914 were sleepwalkers, watchful but unseeing, haunted by dreams, yet blind to the reality of the horror they were about to bring into the world.” Christopher Clark’s The...
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Dr. Henry Giroux on Pedagogy of Resistance
EPISODE SUMMARY In this thought-provoking episode, Dr. Henry Giroux discusses the challenges facing education in an increasingly polarized political aspect. He argues that the pandemic has intensified...
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