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Activism
精东影业 Media鈥檚 coverage of activism centers on the ways that grassroots mobilization and activism work to change the political zeitgeist around the most pressing social issues we are facing.
A Letter to Ursula Le Guin After Her Departure
When I lost hope in this world, you offered me a plethora of fully formed universes to learn from.
Me Too Creator Tarana Burke Reminds Us This Is About Black and Brown Survivors
There鈥檚 another 鈥渕e too鈥� story, about a movement that began a decade before it was a hashtag.
After Erica Garner鈥檚 Death, I Can鈥檛 Breathe Through the Tears
Perhaps our grief can spark people to join the movement to end the oppression.
Why Redneck Revolt Says Deal With Racism First, Then Economics
Addressing our systems of White supremacy cannot be dismissed as 鈥渋dentity politics.鈥�
The 鈥淩edneck Revolt鈥� Is Showing Up at Gun Shows and KKK Rallies to End White Supremacy
This rural White organization put out a call for working-class Whites to 鈥渞eject the idea of whiteness.鈥�
Why I鈥檝e Started to Fear My Fellow 精东影业 Activists
We are alienating each other with unrestrained callouts and unchecked self-righteousness. Here鈥檚 how that can stop.
Confederate Statues Have Been Invisible to Most White People
We鈥檝e been living alongside the Confederacy too long, and white people are finally starting to notice.
Charlottesville Was Not a 鈥淧rotest Turned Violent.鈥� It Was a Planned Race Riot
Isn鈥檛 it time for the media to be honest and call white supremacists the domestic terrorists that they are?
Fight Fascism With a Dance Party
Where fascism aims to instill fear, joy is the perfect resistance.
How to Go the Resistance Distance: Pop-Up Schools for Novice Activists
Modeled after the Civil Rights Era鈥檚 citizenship and freedom schools, the new Sojourner Truth School for Social Change Leadership teaches skills for the Trump Era.
Signs of Revolution in a Not-Yet-Great America
Since the president sees himself foremost as a negotiator, perhaps it鈥檚 time for a negotiated revolution. Not to break us apart, but to bring us together.
5 Ways to Help Immigrants
People are turning their frustrations with the Trump administration into actions that make a meaningful difference in the lives of vulnerable community members.
A Small Act of Scientific Civil Disobedience
Big science publications put important peer-reviewed research behind expensive paywalls. But some scientists have found creative ways around them.
5 Ways to Support Your Sisters
Here鈥檚 how to show other women that you have their back.
Black Communities, not Trump Executive Orders, Will End 鈥淐arnage鈥�
In Chicago and Detroit, citizens already are protecting their neighborhoods from violence. If the president wants to send in help, they say, he can start with education, housing, and justice.
Detroit鈥檚 Massive Muslim Community Looks for Allies in the Trump Era
Fifty-five percent of Americans know very little or nothing at all about Islam, but this group wants to change that.
To Women Marchers: Just Because You Don鈥檛 Feel Welcome Doesn鈥檛 Mean You Don鈥檛 Belong
Issues that impact the womanhood of any one of us鈥攄irectly or indirectly鈥攊mpact all of us.
Has History 鈥淪anitized鈥� King鈥檚 Words? Inside the Push to #ReclaimMLK Day
Organizers hope to connect today鈥檚 civil rights movements to those of the past with a week of demonstrations across the country leading up to Inauguration Day.
What鈥檚 Up, Pussy Hat? Knitting Activists Cause Shortages of Pink Yarn
In the weeks leading up to Inauguration Day and the Women鈥檚 March on Washington, a furious knitting revolution is sweeping craft baskets across the country.
North Dakota鈥檚 Public Bank Was Built for the People鈥擭ow It鈥檚 Financing Police at Standing Rock
The nation鈥檚 only state bank was created to empower small farmers and local economies, but now it鈥檚 being used to silence indigenous people with militarized force. How did this happen?
20 Ways to Take a Bigger, Louder Stand in the Post-Election World
Many of us are rekindling our activist spirit knowing that the next four years will require everyone to act.
How to Attempt Racial Healing鈥擡ven During a Trump Presidency
America鈥檚 past truth and reconciliation processes show us what works.
How Cities Can Protect People Threatened By Trumpism
Cities can offer shelter and protection to their vulnerable citizens and become a place progressives can exert real power.
The Call to 鈥淓nd the War on Black Lives鈥� Starts With Accountability
Next year, the DOJ will collect nationwide data on police shootings and other violent encounters with the public. Is that enough progress?
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