Articles by Sarah Van Gelder
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Elections, labor, mutual aid, and local organizing wins in 2025 point to strategies that can work in the coming year.
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We taxpayers fund ICE, the Border Patrol, and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem’s salary (and her two jets). Without congressional action by the end of January, funding for ICE...
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The election divided the year into “before” and “after.” But there remain signs of hope for 2017.
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“We fought you. We took your land. We signed treaties that we broke … But we’ve come to say that we are sorry.”
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Even if you can’t show up at the wintry encampments, you can join water protectors in other ways: from calling the North Dakota governor to breaking up with your bank.
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A four-month road trip showed me how many of us are already building a better America by working together.
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When we live connected to a community, we are more likely to become champions for one another, not just for ourselves.
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When Donald Trump gets more air time than Bernie Sanders, the media misses the mark on grassroots change.
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For decades, we've been taught that economic growth and buying more stuff will make us happy—while trashing the planet. The good news is, there’s a better kind of happy: It starts with...
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In every community I visited, I found people working hard to lay a different foundation for our society.
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Twelve years ago, John Perkins published his book, “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man.” Today, he says “things have just gotten so much worse.”
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"Self-care and healing and attention to the body and the spiritual dimension—all of this is now a part of radical social justice struggles."
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2015 was a year that shook us out of complacency. Black Lives Matter forced the nation to confront the threat of police violence faced every day by African Americans. The refugee crisis...
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Many of the legal and diplomatic processes that led to peace in other times of conflict haven't even been tried yet in Syria.
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As U.S. political and media leaders prepare for military strikes against Syria, the parallels to the lead-up to the war with Iraq should give us pause. Weapons of mass destruction, we...
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Our little group of a dozen families was running out of time. After meeting every weekend for three years to plan our hoped-for cohousing community, and after investing much of our...
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