Poverty Policing Pandemic
An urgent poem for these times of rebellion.
Antiracism
Rebellions Get Results: A List So Far
Five weeks of open rebellion in the streets have yielded swift, unprecedented results. This is the definitive, updated list of the movement’s victories so far.
Rebellion is the Gateway to Our Future
If police brutality, the pandemic, and impending economic depression robbed us all of a future, this rebellion is the beginning of our collective struggle to take it back.
The Struggle for Clean Air in Chicago’s Southwest Neighborhoods
The recent demolition of a smokestack in Little Village has exposed vast disparities in city environmental priorities. The demolition is only the latest explosion in a long history of environmental racism and private-sector handouts in Chicago.
De Blasio’s Pivot to Antisemitism
De Blasio’s crackdown on the Jewish community in New York has stoked antisemitism at a dangerous moment. He draws from a long playbook of state violence against Black and brown New Yorkers.
What Does the Far Right Want From the COVID-19 Crisis?
A researcher of far-right activity talks about the real threat posed by the recent right-wing rallies—not just in worsening the spread of the virus but in an advance of their toxic politics.
Black Lives Matter and COVID-19
Antiracist activists and organizers from around the country describe what Black Lives Matter means in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Empty the Prisons
The pandemic has exposed the depth of racism embedded in US society. The Left should center the struggle against mass incarceration as a strategic priority in our efforts to #FreeThemAll.
Turning Pain into Action
Dorothy Holmes recounts her fight just to learn the basic facts of her son’s murder and how she has fueled her long struggle toward justice with generosity.
The Heartless Alliance
Immigrant kids don’t need gentler jails. They need us to end detention as a response to migration.
What’s at Stake at Unist’ot’en
Wet’suwet’en land is under constant invasion by the colonial Canadian government. The struggle for Indigenous sovereignty is currently reaching a height unseen in years.
Who Runs Chicago?
Once controlled by manufacturers, city hall is now dominated by finance and real estate capital. The new bosses are building a racist business climate at the expense of working Chicagoans.
What is Owed
Slavery was torture. Reparations for police torture in Chicago are a key part of building the larger reparations movement.
Life After Death
In 2014, Chicago police murdered Ronnieman. In the first installment of a multi-part series, his mother Dorothy Holmes tells her story of growing up in Chicago and her courageous fight for justice for her son.