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Surprising Solidarity in the Fight for Clean Water and Justice on O’ahu

After a 2021 leak at the U.S. military’s Red Hill fuel storage facility poisoned thousands, activists, Native Hawaiians, and affected military families have become unlikely allies in the fight for accountability.

Libby Leonard | Feb 19, 2024

A photo of student protests, detail on megaphone with the Palestinian flag over it.

The Palestine Exception to Campus Free Speech

Writing under a pseudonym to protect herself, a high school student details the intimidation she and her peers have faced from schools for protesting the Gaza genocide.

Aila Haqq | Dec 20, 2023

Murmurations: There Will Be Living, After All

If we do not turn away from our grief, we can use it to craft armor, building a new demographic that will rise from the rubble to dance like dust.

Malkia Devich-Cyril | Dec 19, 2023

A Jewish American Says “Not in My Name!”

Many Jewish Americans—including the thousands who have been arrested protesting Israel’s war on Gaza—consider solidarity with Palestinians to be a moral imperative.

Penny Rosenwasser | Nov 30, 2023

Native Water Warriors Help Delay U.S. Warship, in Solidarity with Palestinians

Coast Salish water warriors in canoes delayed a U.S. military ship believed to be carrying weapons from the Port of Tacoma to Israel.

Luna Reyna | Nov 20, 2023

Video | Climate Change | YES! Presents: Rising Up with Sonali | Rising Up with Sonali | Climate Defiance

How Young Climate Activists Are Confronting Power

A newly formed organization called Climate Defiance is challenging the Biden administration to live up to its climate change promises.

| Oct 5, 2023

Opinion | climate protest | climate activism

The Radicalization of Climate Activism

The climate emergency is here. Our political system isn’t responding at scale, so climate activists are stepping up their game.

Chuck Collins | Sep 29, 2023

Opinion

Eros and the Revolution: Why Activism Needs Pleasure

Punishing ourselves through the deprivation of rest and pleasure won’t get us free.

Gabes Torres | Sep 26, 2023

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Excerpt | Native Stories | Native Culture

The Power of Humor in Indigenous Activism

Native activists are using comedy to fight cultural invisibility and structural oppression.

Caty Borum | May 9, 2023

Good Care for Good Trouble

Three ways to practice community care for movement organizers, unionizers, and other folks on the ground keeping good trouble going.

Gabes Torres | May 4, 2023

Opinion | Poetry | Black Poetry | Racial Justice

June Jordan’s Legacy of Solidarity and Love Remains Relevant

The late poet and activist’s legacy lives on decades after her untimely death—in the purposeful lives of her former students.

Sriram Shamasunder | Feb 13, 2023

Favianna Rodriguez poses for a photograph at her studio

Hopeful Signs of Climate Culture Shift at COP27

Favianna Rodriguez says the cultural successes at COP27 overshadow the political failures.

Breanna Draxler | Nov 23, 2022

Opinion | Reproductive Justice | Roe v. Wade | Abortion

The Political Power of Pro-Choice Protests

In the wake of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, protests remind the Left how political change happens.

Dr. Nolan Higdon, Mickey Huff | Jul 19, 2022

Women Against the Bomb: Mothers of the Revolution

A new documentary interviews “Greenham Common Women”—tough, dedicated protesters in the struggle against nuclear weapons and nuclear war.

Valerie Schloredt | Mar 30, 2022

How to Get Past Despair to Powerful Action on Climate Change

The evidence is clear that people are changing the climate dramatically. But human actions can also affect the climate for the better.

Michael E. Mann, Thomas S. Bateman | Mar 16, 2022

Opinion | Climate Crisis

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