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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…