These Cities Aren’t Waiting for Trump to Self-Destruct. They’re Fighting Back Now. These Cities Aren’t Waiting for Trump to Self-Destruct. They’re Fighting Back Now.
Dispatches from the Urban Resistance, from Los Angeles to El Paso.
May 31, 2017 / Jimmy Tobias
This City Helped Pioneer the Fight for $15. Can It Revolutionize Housing Rights? This City Helped Pioneer the Fight for $15. Can It Revolutionize Housing Rights?
Seattle renters are mad as hell—and they’re not going to take it anymore.
May 30, 2017 / Jimmy Tobias
What if People Owned the Banks, Instead of Wall Street? What if People Owned the Banks, Instead of Wall Street?
From Seattle to Santa Fe, cities are at the center of a movement to create publicly owned banks.
May 22, 2017 / Jimmy Tobias
The Government Wouldn’t Rein In the Banks’ Predatory Practices—Until These Tellers Stepped In The Government Wouldn’t Rein In the Banks’ Predatory Practices—Until These Tellers Stepped In
The Committee for Better Banks is organizing to change the banking industry from the inside out.
May 8, 2017 / Feature / Jimmy Tobias
Is This Small City the Future of Democratic Engagement in America? Is This Small City the Future of Democratic Engagement in America?
Activists in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, have embarked on a nonstop campaign to resurrect the practice of progressive politics in the heart of Trump country.
May 2, 2017 / Jimmy Tobias
From Austin to Missoula, This Is What the Fight Against Trumpism Looks Like From Austin to Missoula, This Is What the Fight Against Trumpism Looks Like
Dispatches from the Urban Resistance, April edition.
Apr 28, 2017 / Jimmy Tobias
Trans Rights Weren’t the Only Target of North Carolina’s ‘Bathroom Bill’ Trans Rights Weren’t the Only Target of North Carolina’s ‘Bathroom Bill’
HB2 is part of a sweeping attack on local progressive power by Republican state legislatures.
Mar 31, 2017 / Jimmy Tobias
These Cities Are Pulling Billions From the Banks That Support the Dakota Access Pipeline These Cities Are Pulling Billions From the Banks That Support the Dakota Access Pipeline
From Seattle to San Francisco, Albuquerque to Raleigh, cities are joining the fight to defund the controversial pipeline.
Mar 20, 2017 / Jimmy Tobias
Can a Champion of Black Lives Matter Become Mayor of St. Louis? Can a Champion of Black Lives Matter Become Mayor of St. Louis?
Tishaura Jones is running to “uproot racism” just a few miles from the streets where Michael Brown was murdered.
Mar 3, 2017 / Jimmy Tobias
This Government Agency Has the Power to Stop the Dakota Access Pipeline. Will It? This Government Agency Has the Power to Stop the Dakota Access Pipeline. Will It?
It is time for the Army Corps of Engineers to make amends for its past treatment of the Standing Rock Sioux and other tribes by stopping the pipeline.
Nov 14, 2016 / Jimmy Tobias