The rights of women to terminate their pregnancies and to receive free contraceptives under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) are on the chopping block

This is the perfect opportunity to bring wisdom from social movements into our families and vice-versa

Why the United States bears responsibility for Yemen’s humanitarian crisis

Cornel West: “I thank God people are in the streets. Can you imagine this kind of lynching taking place and people are indifferent? People don’t care? People are callous?”

“Let us be resolved to fight for justice for all here in Durham. Let us commit to stand up or kneel down when injustices are identified.”

Friday evening, bus drivers in New York City and members of TWU Local 100 refused to cooperate with police in transporting arrested Justice for George Floyd protestors.

How should we answer the question, “What do we do in response to a lynching?” We must make the very system that enables it run for its life

 “The question isn’t: did the Kings Bay Plowshares 7 have a lawful excuse to do what they did. The question is, what’s our excuse not to do more? What will rise us?”

Workers this spring were forced to find new ways to assert their rights when faced with a deadly foe and employers indifferent to their lives

An argument for a super-tax on financial markets to curb extreme inequality in the wake of Covid-19

Thousands of migrants are still making the long trek home to their rural villages, while hundreds of them are dying along the way from exhaustion, heat fatigue, thirst, starvation, and road accidents

Collective grief, from Minneapolis to vigils for victims of COVID-19, is inseparable from rebellion

Riots are communities defining what counts as police brutality and to set the limits of authority. It is here, not in the courts, that our rights are established

“We urge you to have the courage to do the right thing. Refuse activation orders.”

The organized labor movement has begun swinging into action to support protests against the racist police murder of Minneapolis resident George Floyd

Those who have rarely been the target of organized police gangsterism are once again lecturing those who have about how best to respond to it

At least a dozen police reform bills have failed to make meaningful progress in the state legislature since 2015

Trump is seeking to build social-media companies such as Twitter and Facebook into part of an authoritarian infrastructure that amplifies his power and silences the opposition

The disastrous collapse of the UK’s pandemic response has been caused by the deliberate evisceration of our health services. Worse is coming

The message of these groups dedicated to “countering extremism” is clear and none too subtle: Saudi Arabia and the UAE are always U.S. allies and victims of extremism, never a problem or a source of danger, violence or chaos