“None of us have to be a complicit in the US and Israeli genocide. I worked [at] Microsoft… for seven years, and today I quit.”
Zohran Mamdani’s plan for free buses is not a pipe dream. Montgomery County, Maryland, made its buses free this year.
We speak with organizers on the ground in Charlotte, NC, and Chicago, IL, about what to do when ICE invades your town.
“The goal is to transform an imperfect system which aimed for fairness into a rubber stamp mill, leaving only the ‘deportation judges’ they want,” said one policy expert.
“Our neighbors are disappearing without a trace,” Kori Skillman reports at Baltimore Beat.
“Historically, temp workers and prison labor… [have] been used to bust union strikes,” Katherine Passley of Beyond the Bars says. “Well, what would it look like if we were to bring those people into the union so that they can't bust these union efforts?”
The Epstein Transparency Act may trigger the most significant crack in oligarchic power in a generation. With Congress compelling the DOJ to reveal Epstein’s secret files, the protective wall around America’s most powerful men is beginning to crumble. This moment could be the first genuine challenge to the impunity enjoyed by the country’s wealthiest predators.
On Thanksgiving morning each year, Native Americans hold a sunrise ceremony on Alcatraz island, in the San Francisco Bay. It honors Indigenous resistance over the years and the historic 1969 Native American occupation of Alcatraz. This is episode 78 of Stories of Resistance.
“I would like for people to bear in mind this one message: Please do not stand with Israel, and do not stand with Palestine. Please stand with all of us. Please stand with peace.”
“This is a real test right now, because if we as a country can't get on board with protecting children from adult predators, then we're never going to be able to agree on anything…”
“I don't think Wisconsin can afford to drag its feet while people are dying… It is high time for there to be some political urgency around the closure of these prisons and a real, committed goal to reduce Wisconsin's prison population.”
A canceled court hearing along with the secrecy around the downtown holding facility point to a growing accountability vacuum around ICE operations in Baltimore, raising alarms among advocates, legal experts, and members of Congress alike.
Zumbi dos Palmares was the leader of the great Palmares Quilombo, in colonial Brazil. He was killed by Portuguese forces on Nov. 20, 1695, after years of struggle. He is Brazil’s greatest hero of Black resistance. This is episode 77 of Stories of Resistance.
Rigorous, principled, independent journalism is an essential part of movement building.
“I feel so strongly that, in these moments where we feel like there's not a lot of hope, there's a lot of hope when it comes to this community… There is so much power and influence that labor has, it could be so transformative.”
“The presence of lobbyists and other representatives from the fossil fuel industry… is a huge problem, obviously, for the COP process,” Dharna Noor says. “The idea that these companies that have their profit wrapped up in the continued sale and use of fossil fuels is outright contrary to the very goals of the Paris Agreement, including the less radical ones.”
“Trump is prioritizing weapons-contractor profits and his own family’s business interests,” said US Rep. Ilhan Omar.
“Our city has gone from a thriving city to a standstill,” said one local official.
"Hospitals have become targets for the Israeli occupation and the Israeli army. Many hospitals have been destroyed... Doctors, nurses, and medical teams have been kidnapped from hospital premises."
