Activism

Climate Change Student Protest

Rebecca Solnit on Climate Action, Plus John Nichols on Abortion Politics Rebecca Solnit on Climate Action, Plus John Nichols on Abortion Politics

On this episode of the Start Making Sense podcast: why it’s not to late to slow global warming, and how Democrats can win in 2024.

Apr 20, 2023 / Podcast / Jon Wiener and Start Making Sense

Stop the War(s)

Stop the War(s) Stop the War(s)

Indigenous peoples are disproportionally impacted by armed conflicts around the world.

Apr 19, 2023 / OppArt / Juan Henry Mendez Chavajay

Jerry Mander, author of Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television, at his typewriter.

Jerry Mander Was the Groundbreaking Activism-Adman Jerry Mander Was the Groundbreaking Activism-Adman

He was a key figure in the anti-globalization movement—RIP.

Apr 19, 2023 / The Editors

Transgender Day of Visibility

“I Live in a Gray Area”: Being a Trans High School Student Without Support “I Live in a Gray Area”: Being a Trans High School Student Without Support

As a transgender minor with deeply conservative parents, I’m unable to be diagnosed with gender dysphoria. But I still ​​​found my name and community.

Apr 19, 2023 / StudentNation / Spencer Katz

Rutgers students and faculty hold signs at a picket

Rutgers Strikers Run the Table Rutgers Strikers Run the Table

Three faculty unions at Rutgers University in New Jersey have shown a way out of the crisis in higher education.

Apr 19, 2023 / Jonathan David

Triumphant ATU members with their signed petition

How Open Bargaining—and Not Letting Management Set the Ground Rules—Led to a Union Victory How Open Bargaining—and Not Letting Management Set the Ground Rules—Led to a Union Victory

In 2017, Kentucky became the most recent “right-to-work” state in the US. Which makes the recent victory by the Amalgamated Transit Union all the more significant.

Apr 19, 2023 / Column / Jane McAlevey

The Attack on Literacy

The Attack on Literacy The Attack on Literacy

Book banning spreads.

Apr 18, 2023 / OppArt / Dara Herman Zierlein

A woman in a crowd holds a sign reading

“I Felt That I Had Saved My Own Life”: A Polish Woman’s Harrowing Story of Illegal Abortion “I Felt That I Had Saved My Own Life”: A Polish Woman’s Harrowing Story of Illegal Abortion

Polish activist Justyna Wydrzyńska is the first woman in Europe to be convicted of “intent to aid” an abortion. For the first time, the woman she helped, Ania, tells the story of h...

Apr 18, 2023 / Rebecca Grant

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Letters From the May 1/8, 2023, Issue Letters From the May 1/8, 2023, Issue

A higher bar… Impeding our war machine…

Apr 18, 2023 / Our Readers

Time to go? Prime Minister Ariel Henry attends a graduation ceremony for new members of the country's armed forces in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, December 22, 2022.

Haiti, April 2023: Soon There Will Be No One Left to Kidnap Haiti, April 2023: Soon There Will Be No One Left to Kidnap

The deadly consequences of the Biden administration’s policy of no policy.

Apr 17, 2023 / Amy Wilentz

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