What can ordinary, busy people do about a U.S. government and society quickly swinging toward fascism? What do we know from the past and present and around the world about what works? Where do we start? How do we continue?
ZNetwork.org teamed up with RootsAction to co-host this National Teach-In as part of a new project: TeachInNetwork.org | recorded on 3-20-25
Featuring:
Aviva Chomsky, Professor of History and Coordinator of Latin American Studies, Salem State University
Norman Solomon, National director of RootsAction.org and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy.
Alex Marquardt, Executive Director, Climate Defense Project
Kira Kelley, Staff Attorney, Climate Defense Project
India Walton, Senior Strategist at RootsAction, community activist in Buffalo, NY
Alexandria Shaner, ZNetwork.org staff and writer for Extinction Rebellion
Simone Chun, researcher and activist focusing on inter-Korean relations, on the Korea Policy Institute Board of Directors and the advisory board for CODEPINK
Hosted by Ryan Black from RootsAction
Click here to watch with transcript.
Aviva Chomsky is a prolific American historian, author, and activist, and has been active in Latin American solidarity and immigrants’ rights issues since the 1980s. She currently teaches at Salem State University in Massachusetts, where she is also the coordinator of the Latin American studies program. She previously was a research associate at Harvard University, where she specialized in Caribbean and Latin American history. Her book West Indian Workers and the United Fruit Company in Costa Rica 1870–1940 was awarded the 1997 Best Book Prize by the New England Council of Latin American Studies. She is also the author of many other books like Linked Labor Histories: New England, Colombia, and the Making of a Global Working Class. Her articles on immigration rights have appeared in The Nation, HuffPost and and TomDispatch.
Norman Solomon is the national director of RootsAction.org and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy. The paperback edition of his latest book, War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine, includes an afterword about the Gaza war.
Originally from the US, Alexandria has lived most of her life in the Caribbean, as well as in Egypt and Central America. A sailor, writer, organizer, and street medic, she has been involved in community organizing, media, and education for over 20 years. Alexandria is currently an editor of ZNetwork.org, a writer for Extinction Rebellion, and is active with the Democratic Socialists of America and Food Not Bombs. Her work has appeared on ZNet, Common Dreams, Foreign Policy in Focus, CounterPunch, LA Progressive, Waging Nonviolence, Antiwar.com, The African, The Socialist Project, mέtaCPC, DiEM25, PeaceNews, Green Left, Popular Resistance, Resilience.org, Grassroots Economic Organizing, Shareable, Dissident Voice, Democratic Underground, and various other outlets.
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