Activism

Elbit Systems of America facility in Merrimack, New Hampshire, after protesters showed up.

The Dubious Ethics of “the World’s Most Ethical Companies”  The Dubious Ethics of “the World’s Most Ethical Companies” 

Ethisphere has a proprietary metric for assessing how morally correct companies are. This year, it gave an award to Israel’s largest weapons manufacturer.

Mar 14, 2024 / Jess McAllen

A person views Pablo Picasso’s “Guernica” at the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid on April 3, 2017.

Art During Wartime Art During Wartime

Can it really be that to call for sympathy with victims of murder and kidnapping is necessarily to demand violence in return?

Mar 14, 2024 / Barry Schwabsky

Jonathan Glazer reading acceptance speech

Jonathan Glazer’s Brave Oscar Speech Represents the Best of Judaism Jonathan Glazer’s Brave Oscar Speech Represents the Best of Judaism

Instead of confronting what the director of The Zone of Interest actually said, Zionists distorted his lines.

Mar 11, 2024 / Dave Zirin

Pro-Palestine banners on a building with Starbucks logo in foreground

How the Palestinian Justice Movement Helped Starbucks Workers United How the Palestinian Justice Movement Helped Starbucks Workers United

Starbucks worker organizing produced a historic union breakthrough, and this victory came about in part because of solidarity with Palestine.

Mar 11, 2024 / Jonathan Rosenblum

President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address during a joint meeting of Congress on March 7, 2024, in Washington, D.C.

Let the Presidential Election Mudslinging Begin! Let the Presidential Election Mudslinging Begin!

Trashing Donald Trump can’t be Joe Biden’s whole reelection message. But it’s a good start.

Mar 8, 2024 / Jeet Heer

In this aerial view, protesters supporting women's rights are dressed in red as they form a human chain on International Women's Day in Tel Aviv on March 8, 2023.

Nationalism Distorts Feminism in Israel Just as It Did in the US Nationalism Distorts Feminism in Israel Just as It Did in the US

Israeli feminist groups showed courage standing up to Netanyahu on March 8, 2023. Where is that energy now that Gaza is starving?

Mar 8, 2024 / Rafia Zakaria

Members of United Auto Workers on a picket line in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on September 20, 2023.

Why the Environmental Justice Movement Should Support the UAW Organizing Drive Why the Environmental Justice Movement Should Support the UAW Organizing Drive

A progressive version of the right’s Southern strategy could remake our politics—and ensure that the cars of the future, and the batteries they run on, are built by union labor.

Mar 11, 2024 / Bill Gallegos and Manuel Pastor

Only Revolutionary Love Can Save Us Now

Only Revolutionary Love Can Save Us Now Only Revolutionary Love Can Save Us Now

Martin Luther King Jr’s 1967 speech condemning the Vietnam War offers a powerful moral compass as we face the challenges of our time.

Mar 8, 2024 / Michelle Alexander

Gabor Maté; V, formerly Eve Ensler

Turning Trauma Into Social Change Turning Trauma Into Social Change

Laura Flanders talks with Gabor Maté and V, formerly Eve Ensler, about loneliness and facing difficult truths.

Mar 7, 2024 / Q&A / Laura Flanders

Biden stands at a podium to deliver the State of the Union at the US Capitol

The True State of the Union The True State of the Union

We must listen to the cries of those who are suffering.

Mar 7, 2024 / Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II

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