A Minneapolis Councilor on the Need to Disband Police

“My greatest hope is that we can create a police-free city, and one that’s safer and less racist and more beautiful than the one we have now. One where everybody’s needs are met and where everybody feels like they have control over what safety looks like in their community.”

A Time of Bio-Ethical-Ecological Crisis

“The only way we are going to see changes is when unions are withholding labor, to use our economic power to pressure the people in power”

“I think we really are on a trajectory for something different”

The Green New Deal may be a vehicle for building the broad movement for structural change necessary to truly make Black lives matter

With nearly 40 million un- or underemployed workers in the U.S., what will prevent endless calamity? When the economy restarts and stays…

“We cannot have a pacified movement.”

“We’re not here by accident,” Kelley says, crediting racial justice organizers for laying the groundwork for this moment over the last decade. “The real question now is whether or not this can be sustained.”

People are rethinking policing and what it means for all members of our communities to be supported and safe. In other words: another world is possible when we defund and reimagine policing as we know it

Once again, after so many other times, Brazil’s wealthy would rather run the risk of descending into dictatorship (if that’s not what they wanted to begin with) rather than have the lower classes express their aspiration to be included in the nation

Many of the establishment figures now turning on Trump have blood on their hands. But that’s the point

The power of the masters is indeed fragile. It can be restricted, even overturned, by a public dedicated to different goals. But that requires organization.

The quest to transform this country cannot be limited to challenging its brutal police

These are heavily armed men, many of them with military training, looking for new and greater opportunities for violent protest

What has been missing is will, not ideas. And now, as the demonstrations reveal, Americans — black and white, young and old — are demanding change

Economic injustice is vital to the entire U.S. power structure. While many people of all races suffer as a result, people of color are at much greater risk

A criminal suspect does not get to decide whether their victim can make a complaint, or whether the legal system should investigate. The same must apply in international law if it is to have any meaningful application.

Mass Transit Workers Worry About Safety as NYC Begins to Reopen

When you break it down to what we are fighting for, it turns out that a lot of what we’re fighting for already exists in other countries on earth