Activism

It’s Time To Take On The Capitalist Class

November 11, 2018 Maria Svart, Truthout.org. Organize! Activism, Democrats, Elections

Neoliberal House Democrats will collaborate with Trump unless grassroots pressure prevents them. Now that the midterm election is over, what can we do to preempt that collaboration? We need to shift from a short-term electoral to a long-term community and union focus, and shift from preaching to the choir to expanding our base. To build the multiracial working class coalition it will take to win in the face of climate crisis and neofascism, we must make a real commitment to solidarity and lift up a vision of a transformed society with democracy and dignity for all. Only we ourselves can save us.

No Food For 2 Weeks: These Protestors Are Fasting Over Climate Change

November 9, 2018 By Michael Sol Warren, Nj.com Resist! Activism, Climate Change, Fasting

A coalition of environmental groups gathered outside of the State House on Wednesday to announce the start of Climate Fast NJ, a two-week-long protest fast aimed at pressuring Murphy to take more immediate action on climate change. The press conference was capped off with coalition members walking to Murphy's office to hand-deliver their demands. Their specific goals are lofty: Climate Fast NJ is calling for Murphy to back a moratorium on new fossil fuel infrastructure projects like power plants and pipelines. Murphy's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The impetus for Climate Fast NJ, according to organizers, was the release of a dire new report from the International Panel of Climate Change.

How Yemeni Immigrant Activists In NYC Are Changing A Whole Community’s Mindset

November 6, 2018 Michael Nigro, Lawatthemargins.com Create! Activism, Immigration, Yemen

Riyadh Alhirdi is trying not to cry. He’s sitting in the Yemeni American Merchants Association’s (YAMA) new offices in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, explaining the convoluted process of procuring asylum for his wife and five children. Alhirdi, who is 43-year-old and was born in Yemen, has been dealing with opaque immigration procedures regarding his family for over four years. They have been stuck in Egypt since 2015 because the American Consulate in war-torn Yemen is closed. Although he talks on video chats with them daily, over the past eight years, he has been with his family only once.

To Change The World, Treat Your Rebels Well

November 5, 2018 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Clearing the FOG. Podcast Activism, Dissent, Psychology

Throughout history, there has been tension between those who desire obedience to authority and those who question authority. It is those who question authority that contribute to social change, but our culture does not treat them well. We speak with psychologist Bruce E. Levine about his latest book, "Resisting Illegitimate Authority: A Thinking Person's Guide to being an Anti-Authoritarian - Strategies, Tools and Models" and the lessons it teaches for the political moment in which we find ourselves, how anti-authoritarianism is being suppressed and what we must do.

Voting Matters, But Staying Engaged Matters More

October 14, 2018 Jill Richardson, Other Words. Strategize! Activism, Elections, Voting

After Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed, my Facebook feed filled up with people telling one another to vote in the midterms. “If you don’t like what’s happening in America, vote!” they said. And yes, I’ll vote. I always vote. As a believer in democracy, I’m in favor of everyone voting. And if the Democrats take either house of Congress, there will be real change — to a point. However, there are larger changes that voting won’t bring. Not this time, anyway. For left-leaning Americans, voting for Democrats has its limits. Here are some of them. First, most of the Democratic Party leadership is beholden to their wealthy donor base.

Decolonizing Society: The Legacy Of 1968

October 8, 2018 By Mehmet Döşemeci and Jennifer Thomson, Roarmag.org Educate! Activism, Class Struggle, History

Fifty years on, we need a return to the anti-imperialist ethos that enabled the activists of ’68 to engage in a shared struggle against a common enemy. Members of the Weather Underground, a radical direct-action splinter group of the SDS. In 1964, students at the University of California at Berkeley staged a sit-in at Sproul Hall to protest campus restrictions on political activism. Shouting through his bullhorn, Mario Savio, the leader of the Free Speech Movement, likened modern society to an unhearing, unfeeling, oiled machine that needed to be stopped.

Disobedient Art Can Win The Fight Against Artwashing

September 19, 2018 Staff, Gofossilfree.org Resist! Activism, Art, Fossil Fuels

As artists and cultural workers we’ve chosen to undermine the power of the fossil fuel industry in our own backyard directly. We’ve put our focus on confronting artwashing, which is basically greenwashing, using art. When companies like Shell sponsor museums and cultural institutions, it’s not because they care about art, it’s to paint their faces with a veneer of goodwill and distract the public from the disastrous reality of their business practices. To make themselves look like generous contributors to society, when they are in fact the diametric opposite. Art and activism can be applied together to bring fossil-sponsored cultural institutions to their senses. It can flip outcomes for unethical sponsors on their heads – turning decoration into disgrace.

Fighting Absolutism With Activism

September 12, 2018 Eleanor Goldfield, Artkillingapathy.com Create! Activism, Climate Change

It’s not perfect. It’s not what I recall seeing in the Utopian slideshows at sustainability workshops and green living festivals: where impossibly white towers laced with ivy and peppered with balcony trees rise high above a shimmering green pedestrian footpath, where watercolor people wave to passersby on the bicycle highway next to them. And you just know that somewhere in that picture there’s a cafe serving delicious meat made in a sparkling laboratory powered by solar energy, garnished with freshly picked local sprouts, served by robots because humans don’t work in the service industry anymore. They spend their days playing music, having sex and frolicking. No, it wasn’t like that at all. And don’t get me wrong. That picture of what could be could actually be. But it lies not only on the other side of capitalism.

Gun Control Activists Marching 50 Miles To Smith & Wesson HQ

August 25, 2018 Phillip Marcelo, AP.org Resist! Activism, Gun Control, March

WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — Gun control advocates, including one of the survivors of the Parkland, Florida, school shooting and the parents of one of the victims, are marching 50 miles (80 kilometers) across Massachusetts this week to the headquarters of gun manufacturer Smith & Wesson as part of a youth-led push for stricter gun laws. About 40 students and supporters set off from downtown Worcester in central Massachusetts on Thursday morning holding signs denouncing gun violence and chanting slogans criticizing gun makers and the National Rifle Association. They're destined for Smith & Wesson's headquarters in Springfield, where they'll hold a large demonstration Sunday. As he set off with marchers, David Hogg, a survivor of the February massacre at a Parkland high school who has since become a prominent gun control advocate...

The Landmark Monsanto Verdict May Not Have Been Possible Without Activism And Alternative Media

August 13, 2018 By Matt Agorist, Activistpost.com Resist! Activism, Alternative media, Courts, Monsanto

On Friday, a landmark case against Monsanto’s Roundup weedkiller concluded in San Francisco in which a jury awarded $289 million in damages to a former school groundskeeper, Dewayne Johnson, concluding that Roundup gave him terminal cancer. Naturally, Monsanto announced that they are going to appeal this case. However, what this case illustrates is a massive shift in the tide against the chemical behemoth. Had Johnson attempted this lawsuit just three years ago, he would’ve likely been laughed out of the courtroom. Thanks to the relentless independent investigations and independent media, however, this is all changing. If you get all of your news from mainstream media and cable TV infotainment, then you’re probably unaware that glyphosate (the active ingredient in Roundup herbicide) has been linked to cancer.

Berkeley Police Under Fire For Publishing Anti-Fascist Activists’ Names And Photos

August 10, 2018 Sam Levin, Theguardian.com Resist! Activism, Berkeley, Fascism, Police

Unusual release of arrested demonstrators’ identities could fuel harassment and abuse, experts and activists say. Berkeley police have arrested more than a dozen anti-fascist activists and posted their names and photos on Twitter, raising concerns that the department was encouraging harassment and abuse. Law enforcement’s unusual decision to immediately publicize the personal information and faces of arrested leftwing demonstrators on social media has sparked intense backlash. Critics have accused police of aiding the far right and endangering counter-protesters with “public shaming” and targeted arrests for alleged minor offenses. The California police agency said it had arrested 20 people on Sunday at an “alt-right” rally, citing many of them for “possession of a banned weapon” or “working with others to commit a crime”.

[Act Out! 172] – Joyful Militancy Or Building Thriving Resistance In Toxic Times

August 10, 2018 Eleanor Goldfield, Occupy.com Resistance Report Activism, militarism

Activism so often gets the bad rep of being all about sacrificing – all about pain and struggle – never about joy. And yet as we find ourselves in a culture that preaches escapism, demands smiles, a Stepford Wife happiness that defies reality and central nervous systems, what does joy mean? Furthermore, what does activism mean – militancy, rigid radicalism, the toxicity of movement spaces and more? Well – let's dive in.

Community Museum Showcases Washington, DC’s Long History Of Activism

August 10, 2018 Sarah Freeman-Woolpert, Wagingnonviolence.org Educate! Activism, History, Washington DC

One of the most unique and vital museums in the Smithsonian network can be found in the heart of Washington, D.C.’s Anacostia neighborhood, a place long-neglected by government funds and all but forgotten by the city’s tourist crowds. Since its founding 50 years ago — when it became both the first Smithsonian museum located off the National Mall and the first federally-funded community museum in the country — the Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum has served as an interactive space, engaging local residents in the power of neighborhood storytelling. In April, the museum launched a landmark exhibit called “A Right to the City,” which uses artifacts, photographs and oral histories to explore the history of activism and community organizing in six Washington, D.C. neighborhoods.

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