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The Deportation-Industrial Complex Is a Racket - It's a Phony "War on Drugs 2.0"
The Deportation-Industrial Complex Is a Racket - It's a Phony "War on Drugs 2.0"
Spending hundreds of billions on mass deportation for non-violent civil offenses is the war on drugs rebranded. And its truejust like the war on drugs, mass deportation doesnt solve the root causes of anything. It scapegoats vulnerable people, militarizes our communities, and...
Tim Hjersted
The Next Person in a Cell With No Charges Could Be You
The Next Person in a Cell With No Charges Could Be You
We are now in the midst of a outright coup against the Constitution, against the United States, and against our founding ideals. If we don't fight for and win the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, our democracy is dead.
Thom Hartmann
First They Came for Mahmoud Khalil
First They Came for Mahmoud Khalil
The Trump administrations nationwide roundup of international students accused of holding opinions it dislikes is picking up speed, sowing fear, separating families and driving people to go underground or out of the country. This targeting appeals to President Trump and his...
Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan
Yes. It's a Genocide - the Evidence Is Overwhelming
Yes. It's a Genocide - the Evidence Is Overwhelming
When analyzing the ongoing assault on Gaza, it is imperative to begin not with slogans or opinion, but with the clear and unequivocal framework of international law. The UN Genocide Convention of 1948, to which nearly every nation on Earth is a partyincluding Israel and the...
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Localization Action Guide: 137 Actions to Resist and Renew
Localization Action Guide: 137 Actions to Resist and Renew
Join the localization movement to build resilient local economies and flourishing communities. Local Futures produced a detailed Localization Action Guide to encourage everyone to 'GO LOCAL' - anytime, anyplace. It offers tangible and tested ways for individuals, communities...
Local Futures
Restoring Lies and Insanity to American History
Restoring Lies and Insanity to American History
The assault on historical memory by the Trump administration is designed to obliterate our shared understanding of reality and whitewash the crimes of the past to whitewash the crimes of the present.
Chris Hedges
The Self-Defeating Politics of the American Left
The Self-Defeating Politics of the American Left
Bernie Sanders has always been more flawed than many on the left would like. His refusal to call Israels actions in Gaza a genocide, along with several of his foreign policy votes over the years, have been disappointing. Bernie's latest mistake was at a "
Tim Hjersted
The Real Sheepdogs of the Left
The Real Sheepdogs of the Left
In response to Bernie Sanders and AOC's "Fight Oligarchy" tour, the same chorus of voices rings out: Dont be fooled by these so-called progressives! Theyre just sheepdogging for the Democrats! They say it's just another trap designed to herd our revolutionary energies into...
Tim Hjersted
We Asked Our Community How We Can Make America Great—Here's What They Said
We Asked Our Community How We Can Make America Great—Here's What They Said
Last week we posed a simple question to our community on Facebook: How can we make America great? We got hundreds of comments.
Films For Action
The Right's Wokeness Problem
The Right's Wokeness Problem
Paul Grahams recent essay on wokeness is usefulnot because it offers an entirely sound analysis, but because it provides a fascinating case study in ideological blind spots.
Tim Hjersted
Pentagon Contractors Don’t Save Lives or Money — Medicaid Does
Pentagon Contractors Don’t Save Lives or Money — Medicaid Does
Cutting life-saving services to further enrich billionaires and Pentagon contractors is the worst possible option.
Hanna Homestead
The Illegality of Russia's War Does Not Justify Perpetual War
The Illegality of Russia's War Does Not Justify Perpetual War
The Russian invasion of Ukraine was a clear violation of international law. It meets the definition of a war crime under the UN Charters prohibition on the use of force, barring cases of self-defense.
Tim Hjersted
Musk and Rogan's Three-Hour Echo Chamber: Unpacking the Unfounded Claims
Musk and Rogan's Three-Hour Echo Chamber: Unpacking the Unfounded Claims
How a marathon conversation turned into a conspiratorial manifestounchecked claims about Democrats, voting, and immigration, fact-checked and debunked.
Jane Prescott
Elon Musk Is Wrong: Without Empathy, Civilization Ceases to Be Anything Worthy of the Name
Elon Musk Is Wrong: Without Empathy, Civilization Ceases to Be Anything Worthy of the Name
Elon Musks attack on empathy is an old reactionary trick. First, he sets it up with a weak disclaimer:
Tim Hjersted
How to Reset the Board: 10 Ways to Fix America's Rigged Monopoly Game
How to Reset the Board: 10 Ways to Fix America's Rigged Monopoly Game
Real talk. Weve reached a point where the top 1% owns more than the bottom 90% combined. Thats not a bug in the systemits the system working exactly as designed.
Tim Hjersted
We're Seeing the Beginnings of Mass Noncompliance
We're Seeing the Beginnings of Mass Noncompliance
Over a million federal workers refused to comply with Musks email ultimatum last week, offering a glimpse of what mass noncooperation can look like.
Daniel Hunter
Our 2 Choices: Join the Democratic Party to Transform It, or Acquiesce to Fascism
Our 2 Choices: Join the Democratic Party to Transform It, or Acquiesce to Fascism
Because of the structure of American society and politics, the Democratic Party is the only institution positioned to challenge, defeat, and reverse the Trump administrations ongoing destruction of our constitutional order.
Alan Minsky
The Monsters Aren't Just in History Books. They Live Among Us. They're Everywhere
The Monsters Aren't Just in History Books. They Live Among Us. They're Everywhere
Walter Salles' new film on the disappearances of regime critics in 1970s Brazil is a powerful reminder that the ghouls who defend the slaughter in Gaza are biding their time
Jonathan Cook
Behind Trump's Antiwar Bluster, His Goal Is to Turn Ukraine Into a Resource Colony for US Corporations
Behind Trump's Antiwar Bluster, His Goal Is to Turn Ukraine Into a Resource Colony for US Corporations
The cynical choreography of empire follows a familiar script: first, a nation is shattered by war; next, the vultures descend to divide the spoils.
Films For Action
Make Earth Great Again: a Manifesto for Ecological Democracy
Make Earth Great Again: a Manifesto for Ecological Democracy
Make Earth Great Again (MEGA) exists to support and amplify the movements that are actively working towards a just, regenerative, free and egalitarian world. MEGA seeks to reclaim the Earth from corporate globalization and create a society that honors all beings on the...
Films For Action
How a Progressive Government Would End the War in Ukraine
How a Progressive Government Would End the War in Ukraine
"The Democratic Socialists of America condemns Russias invasion of Ukraine and demands immediate diplomacy and de-escalation to resolve this crisis. We stand in solidarity with the working classes of Ukraine and Russia who will undoubtedly bear the brunt of this war, and with...
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Attacking Trump Without a Positive Alternative Is a Losing Game
Attacking Trump Without a Positive Alternative Is a Losing Game
Trump winning twice is not an accident. Its the result of the abject failure of a [liberal] political strategy that ignores financial reform and attempts to nudge the Democratic Party forward based more on identity than class.
Les Leopold
The Left Needs to Learn the Difference Between Imperfect Allies and Our True Opponents
The Left Needs to Learn the Difference Between Imperfect Allies and Our True Opponents
Tearing down the few allies we have in power is a gift to the establishment. The problem isn't their imperfections. It's that there's only a few of them instead of hundreds.
Tim Hjersted
Our Philosophy on Movement Strategy: One No, Many Yeses
Our Philosophy on Movement Strategy: One No, Many Yeses
There is no one right strategy to change the world. Whether we focus on taking over the Democratic Party or building power outside it, let's invest in the path we've chosen and stop tearing down allies that choose a different way.
Films For Action
The Phantom Menace of “Equality of Outcome”
The Phantom Menace of “Equality of Outcome”
The rights fixation on equality of outcome as a specter haunting the Western world is not merely a misunderstanding. It is a deliberate fabrication, a straw man conjured to divert attention from the real issue: inequality.
Tim Hjersted
Why Working People Need a Political Movement of Their Own
Why Working People Need a Political Movement of Their Own
There is no question that the Democratic Party, once the party of the working class, is now the party of the professional managerial class.
Les Leopold
Now That Trump Is in Office, Who Is Really Running the Country?
Now That Trump Is in Office, Who Is Really Running the Country?
For years, conservatives during Bidens presidency asked: Whos really running the country?The irony is that the same forces conservatives claimed were pulling Bidens stringscorporate interests, think tanks, and wealthy donorsare equally, if not more, influential in shaping...
Films For Action
Trump's Neofascism Is Here Now. Here Are 10 Things You Can Do to Resist
Trump's Neofascism Is Here Now. Here Are 10 Things You Can Do to Resist
America has deep problems, which is why we cant give up. Protect the vulnerable, organize boycotts and keep fighting
Robert Reich
Playbook for Defeating the 1% - the Swedish and Norwegian Model
Playbook for Defeating the 1% - the Swedish and Norwegian Model
This playbook is inspired by the insights of George Lakey and the transformative movements of Norway and Sweden in the early 20th century. These nations, once marked by extreme poverty and inequality, achieved remarkable economic justice and democracy through collecti
Films For Action
Now Is the Time for Progressives to Take Over the Democratic Party
Now Is the Time for Progressives to Take Over the Democratic Party
This moment of crisis is an opportunity to get the party on track. We should not squander it.
Alan Minsky
Yasuní: The “Yes” Heard Around the World
Yasuní: The “Yes” Heard Around the World
Leave the oil in the ground? Give up more than a billion dollars a year? Put nature above the economy? What madness is this?
Pablo Solón
All-Aboard for Free Public Transport
All-Aboard for Free Public Transport
From utopia to reality: fare-free public transport in Brazil.
Daniel Santini
Why People Hate Socialism—And What It Actually Is
Why People Hate Socialism—And What It Actually Is
Socialism is one of the most vilified and misunderstood ideas in modern political discourse. The number one reason for this hatred? Most people have no idea what socialism actually is. Decades of propaganda have reduced the concept to caricatures of authoritarian states and...
Tim Hjersted
Radical Ecological Democracy: More Reflections From the South on Degrowth
Radical Ecological Democracy: More Reflections From the South on Degrowth
The multiple crises that humanity is facing are becoming increasingly visible: in the form of disasters related to ecological damage, the stark inequalities between a tiny minority of ultra-rich and the vast numbers of desperately poor, the health epidemics related to both...
Ashish Kothari
A Manifesto Against For-Profit Health Insurance Companies
A Manifesto Against For-Profit Health Insurance Companies
I hereby give you my Oscar-nominated Documentary on the Killer Health Insurance companies like United HealthCare SICKO for FREE and lets end and replace this so-called health care system NOW
Michael Moore
65 Documentaries Inspiring the Transition From Empire to Earth Community
65 Documentaries Inspiring the Transition From Empire to Earth Community
We are living in a time of profound transition, a moment when humanity must choose its path forward. The old systemsof empire, domination, and exploitationare showing signs of weakness, and in their wake, we have the opportunity to build something far more life-affirming. A...
Tim Hjersted
It's Time to Abolish Private Health Insurance
It's Time to Abolish Private Health Insurance
We must challenge the logic of empire and violenceboth state-sanctioned and vigilante, Tim Hjersted writes, while urging a shift to collective, nonviolent action to dismantle the profit-driven healthcare system.
Tim Hjersted
How We Got Here: 17 Documentaries That Explain Why the Mass Media Is the Crisis
How We Got Here: 17 Documentaries That Explain Why the Mass Media Is the Crisis
The crisis of mass media lies at the heart of every other crisis we face today. Economic inequality, a ravaged planet, endless warsnone of these can be addressed if the public is systematically misled about their causes or distracted by manufactured moral panics with little...
Films For Action
The Real "Climate Scam" Is Business as Usual — Here's How We Challenge It
The Real "Climate Scam" Is Business as Usual — Here's How We Challenge It
Capitalism thrives on profiting from crisisit sold us lies about cigarettes, sugar, and opioids, and now it's doing the same with climate change. Fake solutions and disinformation aren't accidents; they're the business model.
Tim Hjersted
Revenge of the Deplorables?
Revenge of the Deplorables?
Think about it this way, maybe it's the Democratic Party which has become deplorable to the working class.
Les Leopold
UN Report Warns of Escalating Genocide in Gaza
UN Report Warns of Escalating Genocide in Gaza
A United Nations report,publishedin October, lays out in chilling detail the advances made by Israel in Gaza as it seeks to eradicate the very existence of the Palestinian people in Palestine. This genocidal project, the report ominously warns, is now metastasizing to the...
Chris Hedges
The Movement We Need
The Movement We Need
This series of writings is an experimenta new way of writing a book that invites you all to participate in. Ive written or co-written thirteen published books over more than four decades as an author, and a number of others (we dont talk about those), and seen publishing...
Starhawk
13 Principles for a Welcoming Movement
13 Principles for a Welcoming Movement
This series of writings is an experimenta new way of writing a book that inviting you all to participate in. Ive written or co-written thirteen published books over more than four decades as an author, and a number of others (we dont talk about those), and seen publishing...
Starhawk
The Real Agenda Behind Mass Deportations
The Real Agenda Behind Mass Deportations
Trumps mass deportation plan, though framed as a way to protect American jobs, actually helps corporations exploit workers and harms the U.S. economy. Heres how:
Tim Hjersted
This Post-Election Take Is Going Viral for the Best Possible Reason
This Post-Election Take Is Going Viral for the Best Possible Reason
It's true.
Tim Hjersted
A Progressive Call to Arms: Laboratories of Democracy
A Progressive Call to Arms: Laboratories of Democracy
The Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution reads: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. Throughout the history of our nation, this amendment has...
Keeling Baker
The Military, Big Bankers and Big Oil Are Not in Climate Denial, They Are in Control and Plan to Keep It That Way.
The Military, Big Bankers and Big Oil Are Not in Climate Denial, They Are in Control and Plan to Keep It That Way.
Capitalism, militarism and imperialism are disastrously intertwined with the fossil fuel economy.A globalized economy predicated on growth at any social or environmental costs, carbon dependent international trade, the limitless extraction of natural resources, and a view of...
Richard Moser
Why Democrats Lose Even When Republicans Are so Endlessly Terrible
Why Democrats Lose Even When Republicans Are so Endlessly Terrible
Amid the postmortems and reckoning that will now follow the wreckage of Donald Trumps return to absolute power, as authorized by the Supreme Court, there are two notes in particular that deserve a deeper dive.
Chuck Idelson
Instructions for Courageous Living in a Broken World
Instructions for Courageous Living in a Broken World
In a world marked by division, inequality, and growing despair, navigating daily life with integrity and purpose can feel overwhelming. Yet, even amid this brokenness, profound change is possible through acts of radical compassion.
Tim Hjersted
The Politics of Cultural Despair
The Politics of Cultural Despair
It is despair that is killing us. It fosters what the Roger Lancaster calls poisoned solidarity, the intoxication forged from the negative energies of fear, envy, hatred and a lust for violence.
Chris Hedges
10 Ways to Be Prepared and Grounded Now That Trump Has Won
10 Ways to Be Prepared and Grounded Now That Trump Has Won
The key to taking effective action in a Trump world is to avoid perpetuating the autocrats goals of fear, isolation, exhaustion and disorientation.
Daniel Hunter
Voting Like a Radical and Honoring the Complexities of Organizing for Justice
Voting Like a Radical and Honoring the Complexities of Organizing for Justice
NOTE: In the days leading up to the election, NDN Collective was invited to participate and contribute to a video with other organizers and activists, calling upon the movement to Vote Like a Radical, inspired by the essay authored by April Rosenblum.
NDN Collective
Vote for Our Movements, Not Politicians: a Strategic Guide to Elections, Where Activism Matters Most
Vote for Our Movements, Not Politicians: a Strategic Guide to Elections, Where Activism Matters Most
This is a guide to think less like a voter and more like an activist.
Tim Hjersted
Protest/Not Voting Is a Trap: Real Impact Requires Material Strategy, Not Symbolism
Protest/Not Voting Is a Trap: Real Impact Requires Material Strategy, Not Symbolism
Strategic materialism + activism > symbolic protest at the ballot box.
Tim Hjersted
Arizona Palestinian, Arab, Muslim, and Progressive Democrats Statement on Presidential Election
Arizona Palestinian, Arab, Muslim, and Progressive Democrats Statement on Presidential Election
As Democrats and leaders in the Palestinian, Arab, Muslim and Progressive communities in Arizona, we the undersigned make the following statement, published on 10/24/2024:
We the Undersigned
Kamala Harris: Heed the People's Call. Arms Embargo Now!
Kamala Harris: Heed the People's Call. Arms Embargo Now!
We are living through this generation's WW2 moment. What will we tell our children when war crimes, including the crime of collective punishment, was committed against the Palestinian and Lebanese people with the complicit support of the United States of America?
Tim Hjersted
Trump’s Victory Won’t Push the Democrats Left — It’ll Only Weaken Our Movements
Trump’s Victory Won’t Push the Democrats Left — It’ll Only Weaken Our Movements
"Its one thing to criticize neoliberalism; its quite another to imagine that a fascist regime will provide better conditions for our movements to flourish."
Tim Hjersted
We Need a Plan for the Transition to Renewable Energy
We Need a Plan for the Transition to Renewable Energy
Radical societal transformation is inevitable; a plan could make a difference between catastrophe and progress.
David Fridley, Richard Heinberg
The 98.96% Difference Between REPUBLICANS and DEMOCRATS
The 98.96% Difference Between REPUBLICANS and DEMOCRATS
Actual Roll Call Voting Records on 20 Issues That America Cares About
Richard Greene
A Strategy to Unite Green Party and Democratic Voters
A Strategy to Unite Green Party and Democratic Voters
A concerted campaign to vote Green in Red states and Blue in Swing-States could be the key to shaking up the political system and uniting progressives.
Tim Hjersted