For 18 days, six members of JVP-Chicago led a hunger strike that helped re-center Gaza in the public discourse and pressure ...

As the US face historic cuts to the social safety net, local economic alternatives can meet basic needs and provide opportunities to organize.

A interfaith campaign is challenging one of the most powerful groups driving unconditional support for Israel and the ...

Leading civil resistance scholars Erica Chenoweth and Zoe Marks have described the need for a “large-scale, multiracial, cross-class, pro-democracy front.” And Maria Stephan, writing for Just Foreign ...

Understanding the relative power matrix Let’s take a closer look at how this relative power matrix works. In the corner of each quadrant, there are mechanisms of change or ways in which you can bring ...

The starting point for me is the falsehood, the false pretense of our gun culture. The right to carry a gun, and the claim to a right to exert that power, must not be the highest right in our land — ...

Policing is morally and emotionally unsustainable. To break the cycle of harm we must begin with care and systemic solutions.

This raises an interesting question with regard to the current administration: Does this analogy hold for how Trump has ...

9. Center in calm, not fear. It’s scary to believe we’re having to talk about a federal coup in the United States. And we know that fearful people are less likely to make good decisions. Let’s aim for ...

Jerry Elmer is the right writer to tell the story. At the age of 18 during the U.S. war in Vietnam, he publicly refused to register for the draft and joined 14 draft board raids in three cities. After ...