- Leaving MAGA for the Left
- Squaring Off Over Palestine
- “Immigrants” or “Migrants”?
- The Politics of Christian Nationalism
- Racist Abuse in the WNBA
- Liberating Our History: Reproductive Rights
- Reviving Asian American Solidarity
- Building a Leadership Pipeline in Rural North Carolina
- Activist Grief
- All-Purpose Flag
Leaving MAGA for the Left
By Rick Perlstein
The American Prospect
Matthew Sheffield, a former rising star in the conservative movement, turned away from what he finally realized was an extremist, anti-truth agenda.
Squaring Off Over Palestine
• School Chiefs and Students Throw Down By Shireen Akram-Boshar, Truthout
• Civil Servants Resist By Akbar Shahid Ahmed, HuffPost
• Purging Anti-Zionists By Shane Burley, In These Times
“Immigrants” or “Migrants”?
By Debbie Nathan
The Intercept
As Al Jazeera has commented, “migrant” has “evolved from its dictionary definitions into a tool that dehumanizes and distances, a blunt pejorative.” In recent years, voices have popped up to renounce the use of “migrant” — as Al Jazeera did in 2015 — or at least question its use.
The Politics of Christian Nationalism
By Kiera Butler
Mother Jones
The New Apostolic Reformation is a charismatic evangelical Christian movement led by a loose network of self-appointed prophets and apostles, who claim that God speaks directly to them, often in dreams. They believe that Christians are called to wage a spiritual battle for control of the United States.
Racist Abuse in the WNBA
By Tom Lutz
The Guardian
Caitlin Clark has become one of the most high-profile sports stars in the United States during her rookie season. That has led to a significant amount of racist, sexist and homophobic comments online from people purporting to defend Clark, who is white, in a league where the majority of players are Black and many are gay.
Liberating Our History: Reproductive Rights
By Alanna Vagianos
HuffPost
HuffPost spoke with Renee Bracey Sherman and Regina Mahone about the women of color who built the reproductive justice movement of today, why police and abortion can never coexist and how the criminalization of reproductive health is killing women.
Reviving Asian American Solidarity
By Roksana Mun and Cathy Dang
Yes!
The ecosystem for community organizing in working-class, pan-Asian communities has to grow and meet the needs of the demographic trends across the U.S. Otherwise, we are left responding to one crisis after another, and with weak infrastructure for leaderful and powerful movements.
Building a Leadership Pipeline in Rural North Carolina
By Dreama Caldwell and James L. VanHise
Convergence
Down Home North Carolina was founded in 2017 with the goal of building community power among working-class people in small towns and rural parts of the state. The group is somewhat unusual in that it organizes exclusively in rural areas and prioritizes the development of leaderful members by offering them extensive training and opportunities to join the organization’s staff.
Activist Grief
By Kelly Hayes
Organizing My Thoughts
Sarah Jaffee and Eman Abdelhad discuss the role of grief in our movements, how leftists are treating each other right now, and how activists should navigate a daily barrage of painful news and information.
All-Purpose Flag
By Doreen St. Félix
The New Yorker
The iconography of this country is so ubiquitous as to be symbolically moot. It is too much symbol—of violence, of imperialism, of ingenuity, of segregation, of hope. It is the spiritual deadness that is conveyed, not the jingo pride, as the cooler kids take up the Stars and Stripes in 2024.
