Activist Diaries is a Z Original series platforming the diverse people driving social change. Their diary entries give an inside look at the work, vision, and strategy behind their campaigns, and into the ups and downs of organizing.
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Courtrooms create great theater. We recognize the dramatic tension between static, formal systems of protocol that protect vested interests, and the contrary…
You might survive a nuclear strike, but I won’t. I live on the Sharpie X that some foreign general scratched upon the…
Hurricane Helene killed at least 230 people across six states in the southeastern United States. Western North Carolina was especially devastated, with…
[This article is part of ZNetwork.org‘s series, Activist Diaries.] My chest is still sore like having done too many push-ups, or taken a knock. It’s…
[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. …
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[This article is part of ZNetwork.org‘s series, Activist Diaries.] “If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom…
[This article is part of ZNetwork.org’s series, Activist Diaries.] Back in the early 2000s, I was doing a lot of neighborhood based…
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