Above Photo: Morgan (second from left) marching during a Pride parade in Washington DC with fellow members of the Party for Socialism and Liberation. Pride and right-wing backlash against LGBTQ people. Transgender rights activist, Morgan Artyuhkina, reflects on recent right-wing attacks on LGBTQ people in the United States on the 53rd anniversary of Stonewall. The celebration of Pride month in June is in tribute to the Stonewall Rebellion which went on for three days, beginning on the night of June 28, 1969. This rebellion took place at the Stonewall Inn, a bar in New York City, which was and still is […]
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Above Photo: Closing panel at the III ALBA Assembly in Buenos Aires, Argentina. ALBA Movements. The III Continental Assembly of ALBA Movements held in Argentina from April 27-30 concluded with a panel highlighting proposals and initiatives of people’s movements to transform the world. After four days of debates and reflection, the III Continental Assembly of ALBA Movements came to an end on Saturday, April 30. 300 delegates from 23 countries had gathered in Buenos Aires, Argentina to debate, discuss, and make concrete work plans for the next period. In the closing panel of the Assembly, leaders from across the region talked […]
Above Photo: Ben Hasty / MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle Via Getty Images. A Wave Of Bills To Install A New Form Of School Vouchers Called “Education Savings Accounts” Are Spreading Across The Country. Last August, when the school year began at Tyner Academy in Chattanooga, Tennessee, nearly 100 students walked out to protest the conditions at their public school building. These students were demonstrating because the freshman building had closed due to structural problems, while other parts of the school faced issues of mold, rust and leaky ceilings. Marching across the campus, students held signs reading “Fix our school,” “Water is dripping on our food” and “Stop diverting our funds.” […]
Above Photo: Members of ALBA Movements in a press conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Daniel Jatimliansky. Over 250 delegates from across Latin America, the Caribbean and the world are participating in the third assembly of the platform of people’s movements. For the next four days, delegates from people’s movements, trade unions, and left political forces will be gathered in Buenos Aires, Argentina in the third Continental Assembly of ALBA Movements. Members of ALBA Movements announced the launch of the assembly in a press conference organized on Monday April 25 in the headquarters of the Argentine Federation of Press Workers (Fatpren). Manuel Bertoldi, […]
Above Photo: Laura Capote and Gonzalo Armúa of ALBA Movements Operative Secretary. The continental platform of social movements will hold its third continental assembly in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to analyze the current situation and define strategies for the next period. The continental platform, ALBA Movements, will hold its third continental assembly in Buenos Aires, Argentina from April 27 to May 1. The platform, composed of people’s movements from across the Americas, will welcome more than 200 delegates to discuss the current political moment in the region and the world, evaluate the work of the last period, and analyze the urgent tasks […]
Above Photo: An MST march. Facebook/Gustavo Marinho. Forty years of struggle by Brazil’s landless workers movement offers lessons on engaging the system without being co-opted. Ever since it launched its first audacious land occupations in the mid-1980s, in which groups of impoverished farmers took over unused estates in Southern Brazil and turned them into cooperative farms, the Landless Workers Movement (known in Portuguese as the Movement dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra, or MST) has stood as one of the most innovative and inspiring social movements in the world. By 2016, its estimated 1.5 million members had established 2,000 permanent settlements throughout Brazil, with some 350,000 […]
Above Photo: An MST march. (Facebook/Gustavo Marinho) Forty years of struggle by Brazil’s landless workers movement offers lessons on engaging the system without being co-opted. Ever since it launched its first audacious land occupations in the mid-1980s, in which groups of impoverished farmers took over unused estates in Southern Brazil and turned them into cooperative farms, the Landless Workers Movement (known in Portuguese as the Movement dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra, or MST) has stood as one of the most innovative and inspiring social movements in the world. By 2016, its estimated 1.5 million members had established 2,000 permanent settlements throughout Brazil, with some 350,000 […]
People’s Movements Across The World Demand Freedom For Julian Assange March 4, 2022 People’s Movements Across The World Demand Freedom For Julian Assange2022-03-042022-03-04https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/220304-1.jpg200px200px Above Photo: Militants from Levante Popular da Juventude. Pablo Vergara. In cities across the world, activists from people’s movements demand that journalist Julian Assange be freed and his extradition be blocked. On the streets of Brasilia and Accra, Johannesburg and New York City, people’s movements and organizations demanded on February 25 that publisher and political prisoner Julian Assange be released immediately. The call for mobilizations was issued by the International Peoples’ Assembly (IPA) which launched a permanent campaign this month […]
Recognition of the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics is a direct result of U.S. efforts to contain Russian economically and militarily. “Minsk, Minsk, Minsk,” they cried after Russia recognized Donetsk and Luhansk. But those Western diplomats and pundits did not hear those of us in the anti-war, pro-peace and anti-imperialist movements who insisted that Minsk II was the only conceivable way out of the crisis! There will be reams of words attempting to provide a coherent analysis of the manufactured crisis dramatically unfolding in Ukraine, which took another unanticipated turn when Russia extended recognition to the Peoples’ Republics of Donetsk and […]
Above Photo: CHICAGO, IL – OCTOBER 31: Braving snow and cold temperatures, thousands marched through the streets near City Hall during the 11th day of an ongoing teachers strike on October 31, 2019 in Chicago, Illinois. Union leadership has announced a tentative agreement on a new contract with Chicago Public Schools and Mayor Lori Lightfoot, but is refusing to return to work until paid teaching days lost during the strike are added to the year’s school calendar. Scott Heins / Getty Images. It’s Important To Know Which One You Are In. Learning to attune to the cycles of our own leadership […]
Above Photo: Public school students protest outside of the Chicago Public Schools headquarters after walking out of their classrooms on January 14, 2022 in Chicago, Illinois. (Scott Olson / Getty Images) There is a long international history of student strikes. The recent student movements in Chile, Brazil, and elsewhere can offer ideas and inspiration to the thousands of K-12 students organizing school walkouts to demand remote learning and other safety protocols during the current Covid wave. Fed up with mandatory in-person school attendance policies that fail to keep them safe, students are marching out of classrooms and into the streets. Last […]
Above Photo: The solidarity of popular movements brought food to thousands of poor families in the country. (Valmir Neves Fernandes / MST-PR and Giorgia Prates). Amidst The Chaos Of 2021. Suspension of evictions, a campaign against hunger, electricity for all, and vaccine access are among the achievements of movements in 2021. The year 2021 was full of bad news for Brazilians. The effects of the global pandemic were made much worse due to the gross negligence of the federal government of Jair Bolsonaro leaving no sector untouched. The country reached the sad milestone of 600,000 deaths by coronavirus, the Bolsonaro administration’s […]
Above Photo: The climate summit COP26 was accompanied by protests by social movements, with demonstrators arriving in Glasgow from all over the world and expressing themselves in their own language or dressing up as dinosaurs to symbolize their criticism. But government delegates did not listen to their demands for ambitious and fair action to contain the global warming crisis. (Laura Quiñones / UN) Glasgow, Scotland – One element that runs through all social movement climate summits is their rejection of the official meeting of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the low ambition of its outcomes – […]
Above Photo: People protesting for right to health. (NVMA) The Nonviolent Medicaid Army organized a week of action from September 13-20 to strengthen calls to expand healthcare coverage and unite organizations working on the issue Organizations across the United States organized protests, cultural activities, community kitchens, teach-ins, and other actions about the issue of healthcare access in the US from September 13-20 as part of the Nonviolent Medicaid Army Week of Action. The diverse actions had the goal of uniting people directly impacted by healthcare denial and linking the different issues related to healthcare such as housing, police violence, access to […]
Above photo: Thousands march in San Salvador on the 200th anniversary of Central American independence. September 15, 2021. Oscar Leiva Marinero. Salvadorans marched through the streets of the capital by the thousands on Wednesday, in the largest anti-government protest since Nayib Bukele took office. On the Bicentennial of Central America’s independence from Spain, social movements and organizations from across the political spectrum protested in rejection of Bukele’s authoritarianism, militarization, political persecution, the removal of judges, pacts with gangs, and the Bitcoin law, amid mounting discontent. The Coordinadora Salvadoreña de Movimientos Populares is a coordination initiative of more than 100 organizations and networks of […]
A Triumphant Return To Power For Bolivia’s Social Movements By Leonardo Flores, Popular Resistance. November 11, 2020 A Triumphant Return To Power For Bolivia’s Social Movements2020-11-112020-11-11https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/bolivia.jpg200px200px Above photo: Bolivians celebrate the MAS-IPSP victory. EFE. Tens of thousands of people took to the streets in Bolivia on November 8 to celebrate the inauguration of President Luis Arce. They would celebrate again the next day, as former president Evo Morales re-entered the country almost a year to the day after his government was overthrown in a coup backed by the Organization of American States (OAS). Almost a month ago, on October 18, the […]
Challenges For Social Movements Now That Trump Has Been Defeated By Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance. November 9, 2020 Challenges For Social Movements Now That Trump Has Been Defeated2020-11-092020-11-09https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/trumpisover-e1604932369130.jpg200px200px Change doesn’t come from the top, especially within a manipulated ‘democracy’ as exists in the United States. When social transformation occurs, it follows years of educating, organizing and mobilizing at the grassroots. Elected leaders who represent that transformation ride on a wave created by social movements, not the other way around. As many people around the country and the world celebrate the media’s announcement of the defeat of President Trump, those who advocate […]
Social Movements Can Win Even With A Hostile Supreme Court By Mukund Rathi, Truthout. November 2, 2020 Social Movements Can Win Even With A Hostile Supreme Court2020-11-022020-11-02https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/sc.png200px200px Above photo: A protestor holds up a sign during a protest calling for the Republican Senate to delay the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Nominee Amy Coney Barrett at the U.S. Capitol on October 22, 2020 in Washington, D.C. Jemal Countess/Getty Images for Care in Action. With the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett, how will the Supreme Court decide future cases? Most people will probably think of it as a “6-3 Court” and expect decisions based […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/106912/61/1069126119_0:0:1200:675_1200x675_80_0_0_062454e3baad79839c52802b4610d9da.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/military/202010041080664311-russian-navy-tracking-movements-of-uks-dragon-warship-in-black-sea-mod-says/ MOSCOW(Sputnik) – Russia’s Black Sea Fleet is tracking the movements of the UK warship HMS Dragon, which has entered the Black Sea, the Russian Ministry of Defence said on Sunday. “The forces of the Black Sea Fleet have begun to monitor the activities of the UK Navy’s Dragon destroyer vessel, which entered the Black Sea on October 4,” a statement read. Use of the Black Sea by non-Black Sea-adjacent states is limited by the Montreux Convention of 1936, which allows warships from outside powers to remain in the body of water for no more […]
How the Fed and the rise of passive investing and volatility strategies have combined to make market movements faster and more severe. Corey Hoffstein is the founder and Chief Investment Officer of Newfound Research LLC, a quantitative research and investment fund. He is also the host of the “Flirting with Models” podcast. In it, he examines three popular narratives about what is driving radical swings in markets, including: He finds that, individually, none could explain the radical market shifts we’ve seen. However, when combined, they create a market incentive loop that is causing markets to move and react to exogenous shocks […]
Reforms Are Won When Social Movements Inflict Real Costs On The Economic Elite By Justin Vassallo, Truthout. August 24, 2020 Reforms Are Won When Social Movements Inflict Real Costs On The Economic Elite2020-08-242020-08-24https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/you-have-the-power-to-be-the-change-e1577647608266.jpg200px200px There’s a tendency in US progressive politics to focus on rehabilitating capitalism for working people. Elizabeth Warren’s campaign for president had the patina of an “anti-corruption” crusade, giving a populist spin to technocratic fixes that would update the embedded liberalism of the postwar era for the twenty-first century. Think tanks and public intellectuals likewise emphasize antitrust as a means to improve the welfare of consumers and workers while giving smaller […]
Popular Movements Can Overcome Authoritarian Policing By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance. July 26, 2020 | Featured Campaign, Newsletter Popular Movements Can Overcome Authoritarian Policing2020-07-262020-07-26https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/portland-protests-go-home-feds-e1595781307540.jpg200px200px Above photo: Portland protests say Go Home Feds as protests grow. By Noah Berger, AP. Today is the 60th day of protests since the murder of George Floyd. This weekend, people marched in cities across the country in solidarity with Portland and in opposition to the US becoming a police state. President Trump sending troops to cities added fuel to the nationwide uprising against racist police violence. Protests have grown not only in Portland but in […]
Mobile devices used by personnel at Russian military sites, government premises and foreign embassies in Moscow were reportedly shadowed by researchers who used commercially available software as part of a Pentagon-funded study. According to the Wall Street Journal, a research team based in Starkville, Mississippi deployed a little-known spying tool called Locate X to snoop on as many as 48 mobile phones that were going online back on August 9, 2019 – a day after a powerful blast rocked the Russian Navy’s secretive testing ground near the northern city of Severodvinsk. The tracking experiment, carried out for the Mississippi State University, […]
Despite Joe Biden’s support for the Black Lives Matter movement, he remains opposed to some of its key ideas, especially those related to defunding the police. In an interview with Time Magazine earlier this week, Alicia Garza, co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement, accused the campaign of Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden of failing to be in sync with the movement’s proposals. “Frankly, I think [the Biden campaign is] well aware that they are pretty far from the concerns that this movement has put forward—and that is not acceptable. We need to push him to be a better candidate if […]
There’s No Predicting When Movements Will Erupt By Arnie Alpert, Waging Nonviolence. June 24, 2020 There’s No Predicting When Movements Will Erupt2020-06-242020-06-24https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/wh.jpg200px200px Above photo: Jacquelyn Martin/AP/Shutterstock. Demonstrators protest, near the White House in Washington, over the death of George Floyd. NOTE: The Popular Resistance School, which is online and free here, teaches about the Movement Action Plan and more. This classic activist resource maps their path to success. With Black Lives Matter in the midst of an unprecedented moment, now is the perfect time to read “The Movement Action Plan” — a model for understanding the long arc of movements. When Claudette […]
Black Activists Expose The FBI Targeting Their Movements By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Clearing the FOG. June 22, 2020 Black Activists Expose The FBI Targeting Their Movements2020-06-222020-06-22https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/facial-recognition-software-one-year.jpg200px200px In 2017, a leak from the FBI revealed they were targeting black activists organizing to end racist policies and practices calling them “Black Identity Extremists.” This is consistent with the FBI’s long history of investigating and harassing black and brown activists. Organizations like Media Justice and the ACLU have been working to get information from the FBI about what they are doing and who they are targeting but the FBI has been putting […]
Agents Provocateurs Are Still A Real Threat To Our Movements By Jacqueline Luqman, The Real News. June 9, 2020 Agents Provocateurs Are Still A Real Threat To Our Movements2020-06-092020-06-09https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/store-window-being-broken-image-by-rex-from-shutterstock-e1591668579197.jpg200px200px Above photo: Store window being broken, Image by REX from SHUTTERSTOCK. ‘Outside agitators’ aren’t the cause of last week’s protests, but they are one of the forces that threaten to derail movements. Earlier this week, Saint Paul, Minnesota mayor Melvin Carter had to walk back his earlier claims that, quote, every single person who was arrested Friday night from protests over the killing of George Floyd was from out of state. The state’s governor, […]