Articles by Sarah Van Gelder
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Why did the United States help topple a democratic government in Iran some 70 years ago—and how did that decision create the conditions we’re seeing today?
Sarah Van Gelder · 914 views
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Elections, labor, mutual aid, and local organizing wins in 2025 point to strategies that can work in the coming year.
Sarah van Gelder · 791 views
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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...
Sarah Van Gelder · 596 views
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The election divided the year into “before” and “after.” But there remain signs of hope for 2017.
Sarah van Gelder · 4,085 views
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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.”
Sarah van Gelder · 6,234 views
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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.
Sarah van Gelder · 5,367 views
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A four-month road trip showed me how many of us are already building a better America by working together.
Sarah van Gelder · 3,108 views
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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.
Sarah van Gelder · 3,091 views
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When Donald Trump gets more air time than Bernie Sanders, the media misses the mark on grassroots change.
Sarah van Gelder · 28,176 views
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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...
Sarah van Gelder · 3,064 views
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In every community I visited, I found people working hard to lay a different foundation for our society.
Sarah van Gelder · 2,396 views
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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.”
Sarah van Gelder · 5,393 views
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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."
Sarah van Gelder · 4,614 views
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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...
Sarah van Gelder · 1,040 views
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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.
Sarah van Gelder · 4,434 views
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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...
Sarah van Gelder · 2,589 views
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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...
Sarah van Gelder · 4,918 views
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