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** We’re Done Asking for Permission
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January 5, 2026
One of the things I love about the turning of the year is getting a new planner. I buy paper planners, ones in which I can write by hand not only appointments and deadlines, but notes, habits, plans, and dreams. That’s a tradition left over from my school days. Though no one is grading my assignments anymore, I still try to keep my planner organized and updated.
Writing on the fresh January page of a planner is a deliberate action, one that says: We are going on. Making future plans means we believe there will be a future. It feels like taking back power, wrestling a year that, as we know from the recent past, may spin out of our control. But for now, it’s new, and for now, it’s ours: the person we want to be in the world and the change we plan to make in it.
In this installment of Justice This Week, it’s a new year, it’s a new us, and we’re done asking for permission. This week we present stories of taking back power, from a community self-organizing in California to lessons of historical resistance.
Every new year is a new chance, and we can be bold in it.
Dr. Alison Stine
Senior Editor
Climate Justice
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Reclaiming the Spaces that Once Confined Women Against Their Will
by Michelle Browder
In Montgomery, AL, an artist seeks to reclaim the history of enslaved Black women who were subjected to brutal medical experimentation in the name of science.
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Restoring Agency, Redefining Development in Richmond, CA
by Kelsey Boyd
How can a community self-organize and build its capacity to act on its own behalf? A story from Richmond, CA, illustrates why bottom-up organizing is so powerful.
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If Farm School NYC Closes, What Will the City Lose?
by Farm School NYC and Iris M. Crawford
Federal funding cuts are putting urban agriculture education at risk.
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Lessons of Resistance: How Activists Navigated Hoover’s FBI and Political Scrutiny
by Zane McNeill
By looking back at Hoover-era resistance tactics and how past organizations protected members and sustained their missions under pressure, nonprofits can be better prepared for the continued threats under the Trump administration.
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