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From Rural America With Love: An Invitation to Bravery
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/from-rural-america-with-love-an-invitation-to-bravery/
Published: February 11, 2025 17:00
For the last year, the two of us have been lucky to talk strategy with more than 130 other rural organizers and volunteer leaders. In the process, we built the beginnings of the Rural Defenders Union, a network of isolated, under-resourced,…
Strategy and Tactics for the Burgeoning Resistance
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/strategy-and-tactics-for-the-burgeoning-resistance/
Published: February 10, 2025 16:55
The wide mix of acts of resistance over the past week have made it clear that there is and will be widespread resistance to the Trump/MAGA regressive, racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic and pro-billionaire plans, There have been actions in the streets…
Unionized Grocery Workers Are a Sleeping Giant
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/unionized-grocery-workers-are-a-sleeping-giant/
Published: February 10, 2025 16:44
In the first six months of 2025, grocery contracts covering over 130,000 union workers are set to expire. The contracts span five states, a dozen local unions, and several employers — namely the grocery giants Kroger and Albertsons. United Food and…
The Worst Fear of the Ruling Class in this Country
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-worst-fear-of-the-ruling-class-in-this-country/
Published: February 10, 2025 16:23
I do not often find myself in the habit of thanking Elon Musk, but he has done an exceptional job of demonstrating a point that we have made for years — and that is the fact we live in an oligarchic society in which billionaires dominate not only our…
Escaping the Trap of ‘Realism’ and ‘Utopianism’: Towards Programmatic Synthesis
Published: February 10, 2025 16:19
[T]he strongest and most efficient of megamachines can be overthrown[…] The collapse of the Pyramid Age proved that the megamachine exists on a basis of human beliefs, which may crumble, of human decisions, which may prove fallible, and human consent,…
How We Make Progress Now
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-we-make-progress-now/
Published: February 10, 2025 16:16
We’re a week in, and the Trump blitzkrieg has had its desired effect—everyone is stunned by the sweep and depth of the cruelty and silliness on display, bludgeoned into a kind of fish-faced silence because what, really, do you say to someone who has just…
Will the Current Musk Coup Define Our Future?
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/will-the-current-musk-coup-define-our-future/
Published: February 9, 2025 17:19
A classic coup d’état has guns. Uniformed men run wild seizing government agencies and claiming control over what government does and who government serves. But in our new cyber age, the Yale historian Timothy Snyder reflected this past week, a coup can…
We Are Stronger Than We Think
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/we-are-stronger-than-we-think/
Published: February 9, 2025 17:11
The Trump-Musk administration has moved rapidly, ruthlessly and often illegally to consolidate authoritarian control and empower billionaires at the expense of ordinary people. In an administrative coup guided by Project 2025, the White House has sought to…
What If We Ran The Economy?
https://znetwork.org/zvideo/what-if-we-ran-the-economy/
Published: February 9, 2025 17:05
Can you imagine libraries of tools, clothing, and even housing? The library economy can be the bridge to an entirely new world of human flourishing. Let’s explore what the library economy is, what may or may not be included, and what it might take to bring…
Shut the US Down Before Fascist Consolidation
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/shut-the-us-down-before-fascist-consolidation/
Published: February 9, 2025 16:54
Yesterday my wife and I and a friend drove to downtown Springfield for a rally against Trump, organized by Indivisible – a grass roots group focused on local protest movements. We had heard that Massachusetts senators Markey and Warren would be speaking in…
Remember What Audre Lorde Told Us: The Oppressor Doesn’t Determine What’s True
Published: February 9, 2025 16:44
Since Donald Trump came to power for the second time in the United States, the attacks on all of our intersecting communities have been raining down fast and hard. The current Trump administration has unleashed an assault on undocumented immigrants;…
Why Climate Defiance Is Doubling Down On Disruption
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/why-climate-defiance-is-doubling-down-on-disruption/
Published: February 7, 2025 16:56
On a brutally cold morning last December, shortly before I was arrested for the first time, a hundred of us gathered beside the National Mall in Washington, D.C. I came from campus in the dark with a couple of friends. As others congregated on the grass,…
How Philly Whole Foods Workers Beat Bezos
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-philly-whole-foods-workers-beat-bezos/
Published: February 7, 2025 16:51
Can labor sustain its forward momentum under Trump? The first big test came last Monday, when Whole Foods workers in Philadelphia voted on whether to unionize with the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW). Many in the labor movement were expecting a…
How to Win, Together: Lessons from Organizing in Rural Washington State
Published: February 6, 2025 16:57
During the 2024 election, rural Washington state did something unexpected: People in deep red counties like mine protected funding for our schools, childcare, land, and water, and we did it by taxing the super-rich and fining polluting corporations. This…
FDR’s Wartime Strategies Can Power a Just Transition Now
https://znetwork.org/zvideo/fdrs-wartime-strategies-can-power-a-just-transition-now/
Published: February 6, 2025 16:55
Economist Martin Hart-Landsberg underscores the importance of planning for a just transition and transformation of socio-economic relations. Hart-Landsberg examines FDR’s Defense Production Corporation and War Production Board which were established to…
Moving from a Doomsday Clock to a Peace Clock
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/moving-from-a-doomsday-clock-to-a-peace-clock/
Published: February 6, 2025 16:55
This year’s Doomsday Clock Statement landed like a damp squib in a Trump-swamped corporate news cycle on January 28th. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists only moved the hands of the Clock forward by one second, from 90 seconds up to 89 seconds to…
Peoples’ Platform Europe To Meet In Vienna
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/peoples-platform-europe-to-meet-in-vienna/
Published: February 6, 2025 16:55
Progressive, left, socialist and ecology activists from across Europe are set to gather in Vienna this February for a major conference aimed at strengthening grassroots organising. The three-day “Peoples’ Platform Europe” event, running 14-16 February,…
The Fragile Ceasefire: Gaza Tribunal More Relevant
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-fragile-ceasefire-gaza-tribunal-more-relevant/
Published: February 6, 2025 16:48
In 1 November 2024, a coalition of concerned individuals and organisations launched the Gaza Tribunal (GT) in London in response to the international community’s failure to halt the genocide in Gaza. After more than a year of carnage, its convenors…
This Clinic in Chicago Offers Free Legal Aid to Solidarity Economy Groups
Published: February 6, 2025 16:45
Chicago, Illinois, has a rich history of grassroots organizing. Notable examples are the Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council’s efforts to improve local economic and social conditions and the Black Panther Party’s establishment of housing cooperatives…
Fighting Fascism from Within: A Guide for Federal Employees Under Siege
Published: February 5, 2025 18:51
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been inundated with messages from concerned federal employees. Many of you have reported disturbing developments involving Elon Musk and his inner circle—including private contractors from Musk’s companies allegedly accessing…
Abdullah Öcalan’s Isolation May Be Coming to an End
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/abdullah-ocalans-isolation-may-be-coming-to-an-end/
Published: February 5, 2025 18:40
After dinner with the Kurdish family with whom we are staying, we sit down in front of the TV. The host flicks through the many Turkish channels. Most show the same heated discussions. The so-called experts on screen are all obsessed with one subject…
How Africa Can Make Demand for Its Mineral Wealth a Race to the Top
Published: February 3, 2025 16:56
This week, the Mining Indaba begins in Cape Town, drawing industry leaders, investors, and stakeholders united by a common interest in tapping into Africa’s vast mineral wealth. The world is hungry for the minerals needed to power the net-zero energy…
Future Natures: On Seeing Commons Through Popular Genres
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/future-natures-on-seeing-commons-through-popular-genres/
Published: February 3, 2025 16:22
In academic research about the commons, few scholars are as venturesome in their creative approaches than the scholars and researchers associated with the Centre for Future Natures, at the University of Sussex in England. Led by anthropologist and research…
Immigrant Solidarity in 2025 – with Zafiro Patiño, Aviva Chomsky, & Peter Bohmer
Published: February 3, 2025 15:27
Panelists highlight the key dangers for immigrants in Trump’s new administration, underlying causes of migration, vision and strategy for what a truly just immigration policy would look like, and practical action that can be taken to resist harm and…
We Must Create a Broad Anti-Fascist Movement to Fight Back Against Trump 2.0
Published: February 3, 2025 14:00
A few years ago, Noam Chomsky warned about the return of fascism in contemporary capitalist societies. He pointed out that 40 years of neoliberal policies—a one-sided class war launched by the business class and its allies against the working people, the…
The Limits of Tyrants
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-limits-of-tyrants/
Published: February 2, 2025 16:12
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till…
Serbia’s Mass Protests Against a Crony-Capitalist Government
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/serbias-mass-protests-against-a-crony-capitalist-government/
Published: February 2, 2025 16:06
Soon after the roof canopy of Novi Sad’s central train station collapsed last November 1, killing fifteen people, a TV reporter asked local journalist Igor Mihaljević to respond to the event. With devastating and incisive judgement, he offered the context…
Another Way Out: In Fighting Fascism, We Must Choose Our Fights Wisely
Published: February 2, 2025 15:59
“They’re not trying to impose dictatorship from a position of strength, they’re trying to impose it from a position of weakness, and fear.” – Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin “In the midst of discontent, talk, theoretical discussions, an individual or collective act…
How To Organize Under Authoritarian Creep In A Closing Civil Society
Published: February 1, 2025 15:40
As you read this, new executive orders are being signed, and old protections are being dismantled. Many of the frameworks and institutions of our aging democracy — more specifically, our representative republic — are being tested to the point of fraying or…
Here’s How Faith Leaders Are Standing Between ICE and Their Congregants
Published: February 1, 2025 15:06
The first time I sat down at a Quaker meeting I started to cry. Outside, it was a hot and frenetic summer day in the city. But the quiet, light-filled sanctuary was just that — a refuge. I hadn’t realized how deeply I’d yearned for the calm until I was…
Our Margin of Effort: Looking Back and Looking Ahead
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/our-margin-of-effort-looking-back-and-looking-ahead/
Published: December 15, 2024 13:18
The bulk of US progressives and radicals went into the 2024 presidential race clear-eyed about how catastrophic a second Trump term could be. Organizations ranging from the Working Families Party to the national community organizing networks, from…
Unity Above Else: The Only Road to the Liberation of Palestine
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/unity-above-else-the-only-road-to-the-liberation-of-palestine/
Published: December 14, 2024 16:14
A new kind of unity around Palestine is finally finding its way to the Palestine solidarity movement worldwide. The reason behind this unity is obvious: Gaza. The world’s first live-streamed genocide in the Gaza Strip, and the growing spontaneous…
How We’re Rebuilding the Nation’s Largest Student Organization
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-were-rebuilding-the-nations-largest-student-organization/
Published: December 14, 2024 16:11
Where We Were For decades, the United States Student Association (USSA) served as the nation’s most powerful student voice. Born in 1978 from the merger of the National Student Association (NSA) and the National Student Lobby (NSL), the USSA was a force…
By Any Means Necessary?!
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/by-any-means-necessary/
Published: December 13, 2024 17:31
Trump is a pestilence, an abomination. Really. He is. No more debate. It is as evident as a cloud of locusts. It is as undeniable as his pronouncements, appointments, and Project 2025. What name should we give all that? Call it anything you like. But by…
Trump Does Not Have Mandate
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trump-does-not-have-mandate/
Published: December 13, 2024 17:30
Newspaper headlines have called Donald Trump’s victory “decisive,” “massive,” “resounding,” “historic,” and “sweeping.” Trump himself has described his win as a “landslide.” On election night, he claimed that “America has given us an unprecedented and…
Organizing and Mutual Aid Are the Answers to a “Peace” Climate Summit that Was Anything But
Published: December 12, 2024 16:48
Militarism and fossil fuel dependency are inextricably linked– yet world leaders ignored this reality when they gathered to hash out global climate goals at the so-called ‘peace’ COP. When world leaders drop the ball this badly, it’s up to us to lead the…
Educating For Adaptive Change Beneath A Darkening Sky
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/educating-for-adaptive-change-beneath-a-darkening-sky/
Published: December 12, 2024 16:47
[Prefatory Note: This is a revised text of my presentation at the 4th Istanbul Education Summit made on December 7, 2024, held under the auspices of the Maarif Foundation in Turkey that is responsible for a network of schools and universities present in…
Twelve Creative Ways To Foster Reconciliation After Violence
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/twelve-creative-ways-to-foster-reconciliation-after-violence/
Published: December 12, 2024 16:45
Reconciliation is a processed aimed at putting an end to conflict between two parties. It includes a closure of hostile acts, a process of healing and rehabilitation of both perpetrators and victims. Reconciliation processes often require the intervention…
CDRCs: A Proposal Concerning Work, Resilience, and the Repopulation of the Countryside
Published: December 10, 2024 17:01
Work sharing, the repopulation of the countryside, and the urgent recovery of resilience in the face of pending ecosocial collapse are objectives that can be pursued simultaneously and synergistically. The proposed model, Community Development and…
Odyssey: Hopes and Dreams
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/odyssey-hopes-and-dreams/
Published: December 10, 2024 17:00
Societies around the globe face multiple crises. In this context, is marshaling hope and dreaming up beautiful futures—imagining a world that could be—a useful response, or is it escapism? Our hopes for a better world can be powerful springboards to…
US Socialists: ‘Trump’s election shows the far right has been better at capitalizing on these times of crisis than the left’
Published: December 9, 2024 17:13
Following Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 United States Presidential election, Jacob Andrewartha from LINKS International Journal of Socialist Renewal spoke with Cyn Huang and Daniil Sapunkov from the Bread & Roses Caucus within the Democratic…
How We Build Socialist Power (Literally)
https://znetwork.org/zvideo/how-we-build-socialist-power-literally/
Published: December 9, 2024 14:25
In this Our Changing Climate climate change video essay, I dive into how we might be able to build out a socialist power grid. Specifically, the video examines the pitfalls of a capitalist market-based approach to the power. Further Reading and Resources:…
How a Local Housing Campaign Won Pro-Tenant Reforms By Recruiting Homeowners
Published: December 7, 2024 15:14
If organizers learn anything from election results this year — and potentially any year — it might be a reaffirmation of the need for groups to work together in advancing progressive priorities. A loose coalition of anti-MAGA voters kicked Donald Trump out…