BLOCK TILL YOU DROP: Anti-logging activists say their only recourse is to physically block mass destruction of forests. (6/22/22)
LABOR REVIVAL? WELL, NOT YET … The disruptions of COPVID and the Great Resignation have given workers some leverage. But that’s no guarantee of success. (6/17/22)
SHUT UP, HE EXPLAINED: Elon Musk fires workers at SpaceX who dared to speak up against his bid to take control of the nation’s town square at Twitter. (6/17/22)
LOL-TIVISM: In the age of Fake News, why not Fake Activism? Pro-crytpo forces stake fake protest to call attention to their … cause? (6/20/22)
BROWNSHIRTS IN IDAHO: It’s an old formula: one part intimidation, one part violence. The story behind the alt-right plans to attack LGBTQ rallies. (6/20/22) Also: the right-wing media’s provocations.
CALM BEFORE THE STORM: Pro-choice activists ring around the Supreme Court. (6/14/22)
★ A MULTI-FRONT WAR: As Big Oil goes for broke, continuing to drill, baby, drill, the movement on climate crisis has initiated a thousand points of fight. (6/14/22)
BREATHTAKING SWEEP: The anti-LGBTQ forces have launched an all-out war, says Ben Jealous of the People for the American Way. (6/14/22)
DEMONISM DOESN’T WORK: Maureen Dowd, from her pro-Trump days to her present depiction of him as a monster, doesn’t understand. Every monster emerges from a monstrous culture of gritty and indifference. (6/17/22)
★ THE MYTH OF ‘READY MONEY’: Gun-control activists have raised big money and they hold huge majorities on the issue. So what’s mission? Dedicated, street-level, organized, persistent passion. (6/17/22)
THE NEW KING OF TRIANGULATION: Eric Adams is everybody’s fool. The the new mayor of New York City wins when progressives fight each other. (6/16/22)
FATHER’S DAY TALE: David Dennis and his son explore their lives as activists. (5/17/22)
CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE: Climate activists won a great victory with Joe Biden’s election. Or did they? Compromises and gridlock make activism more important than ever. (6/16/22)
★ ‘GOAL PROXIMITY’: The best activist strategy depends on whether you are close to achieving your goal. When the goal is far away, moral and emotional appeals work; when close, problem-solving strategies. (6/17/22)
★ BROAD COALITIONS NEEDED: “If activism is saying, ‘It cannot be business as usual, it cannot be government as usual,’ then surely we must be saying to ourselves, ‘It cannot be activism as usual.’” (6/17/22)
LIKE MOTHER, LIKE DAUGHTER: Miss Erika J picks up the anti-gun cause of her lake mother, who sprung into action after the gun death of her brother. (6/18/22)
WHEN CEOS ARE ACTIVIST: It’s not a comfortable role. But as Delta’s Ed Bastian says, “there come times when what you see happening and the divisiveness in society is impacting your own people, and your people are feeling and carrying the weight of that.” (6/15/22)
BROUGHT DOWN: Anti-abortion activists in OKC scale the city’s tallest building, face arrest. (6/14/22)
THE BIG GRIFT: We’ve got trouble, right here in River City, and it’s spelled like this: T-R-U-M-P. Scamming innocents has always been his go-to play. Why wouldn’t it be now? (6/14/22)
WHAT WOULD HENRY THINK? The Ford Foundation traces its evolution on gender, noting that civilizations have across the world have always experienced fluid identities and practices. (61/4/22)
SUDDEN ENLIGHTENMENT? Exploring why gay rights seems to be embedded into American society and law after centuries of discrimination. (6/13/22)
DISTRACTING OURSELVES TO DEATH: The window is closing to devise an effective strategy on the climate crisis. In a world of hurt, the crisis seems abstract and distant … until it doesn’t. Factoid: Half of humanity is suffering the impacts of manmade warming. (6/11/22)
THE PATSY CLINE PARTY? Crrrrazy? A look into the lives and minds of the foot soldiers of right-wing conspiracy fetishists. (6/11/22)
CONVERGENCE: It makes sense. Latinos suffer more from environmental racism than anyone. So why shouldn’t they take the lead in the climate crisis issue? (6/12/22)
★ WHEN PRISON IS THE ANSWER, WHAT’S THE QUESTION? The inner logic of locking up marginal people and animals. (6/11/22)
★ WHERE’S THE FOLLOWUP? The real of the San Francisco DA suggests a major challenge for activists and reformers. It’s not enough to win some policy victories. Backlash prevention is key. “Winning issue campaigns should be funded for two years afterwards to defend and implement the policies.” (6/10/22)
★ THE TIANANMEN LEGACY: 33 years after the brutal suppression of the democracy movement in China, the government has worked to prevent a new movement from ever developing. (6/3/22)
ATTITUDE TEST: The link between narcissism and opposition to immigration. (6/1/22)
★ POWER FROM BELOW: Political scientist LaGina Gause says the disadvantage have a distinct advantage in setting new agendas … if they mobilize. (6/1/22)
TIP SHEET: Forbes provides strategies to oppose employee activism. (6/3/22)
INFLECTION POINT? A majority of workers say they want to be in a union, a new survey finds. (6/2/22)
BA DA DA DA DA: McDonalds rejects a bid to place two food activists on its board. (6/8/22)
WAR OF WORDS: Judge approves labeling climate crisis activists terrorists (6/7/22)
NO NUKES: Looking back on the 1982 rally.
‘CARE NOT CAGES’: Rhode Island activists protest abusive conditions at the Adult Correctional Institutions and demand an end to mass incarceration. (6/8/22)
POLITICAL FOOTBALL: After Louisiana governor refuses to take executive action against trans athletes, the state legislature passes a law. (6/6/22)
THE FEDERALIST RESPONSE TO MASS SLAUGHTER: Buy more guns. Seriously. (6/6/22)
★ DIASPORA ACTIVISM: How U.S.-based activists participated in the movement against the shah–and paid the consequences after the 1979 revolution. (6/6/22)
★ POUND AWAY RELENTLESSLY: Using big money and a constant drumbeat of misinformation, the gun industry’s movement to promote unlimited sales of firearms (NRA, 2A, call it what you will) has remade American politics. (6/3/22)
★ URGENCY YES, HOPE NO: Gun reform activists after Uvalde. (6/3/22) Also: Hannah Arendt’s rejection of hope in meaningful political action.
BACK STORY: Before the slaughter at Robb Elementary, Uvalde had a legacy of activism by Mexican-Americans. (5/31/22)
A TORCH HAS BEEN PASSED: To a new generation of leadership. Social movements have been front and center, says a Harvard scholar. (5/31/22)
THE ONLY GUN REFORM STRATEGY? “The children and parents of our country need to take the summer to organize locally, build a set of national demands, and then refuse to go back to school in the fall until Congress does something.” (5/31/22)
THIS IS WHAT PRO-LIFE LOOKS LIKE: Activists behind the movement for gun safety. (5/29/22)
CORPORATIONS OF THE WORLD, UNITE: Shareholder activists have pushed for withdrawing from carbon-based fuels. Why not also withdraw from companies invested in gun madness? (5/28/22)
POLITICS AND SPORTS: Should sports figures give a damn about gun slaughters? Dare they speak up? Gabe Kapler says yes. (5/29/22)
AFFINITY CEREMONIES: Harvard and other universities host special graduation events for minorities and LGBTQ+. (5/27/22)
HOW QUICKLY THE WINDOW CLOSES: After a mass slaughter, most Americans are angry and determined for … about four days. Activists need to organize, not just ride the waves of emotion. (5/26/22)
THE LIMITS OF DISABILITY ACTIVISM: Handicapped people are as diverse a group as any you’ll find. That can make it hard to mobilize. (5/25/22)
MORE SLAUGHTER: A Parkland father and activists knows where to lay the blame. But will anything change? (5/24/22)
CONFEDERATES YES, BLM NO: Students at Coosa High School in Georgia sue over restrictions over their protests against the Confederate flag. Meanwhile, the dress code bans BLM shirts. (5/17/22)
★ TIME FOR A PUBLIC INTERNET? Yes, says Ben Tarnoff. The problem is that giants like Facebook and Twitter are too easy. The problem is that we need Musk-free alternative to engage in independent politics. (5/23/22)
★ A WAR ON YOUTH? If young people are the world-changers, then of course they would be targeted by authoritarians. But they’re ready. (5/22/22)
GET OFF MY LAWN: Calls for civility are often calls to shut up. It was ever thus with protests and demonstrations. (5/12/22) By the way, experts say the protests in front of the homes of SCOTUS justices and Nancy Pelosi are legal.
★ QUICKSILVER: Corporate interests are skilled at coopting and trivializing select parts of reform agendas, to the exclusion of the rest of those agendas. case in point: Woke companies in the wake of George Floyd protests. To combat such neutering, foster links between material justice and language. (5/9/22)
TARGETING THE FILIBUSTER TWINS: Activists play a day of protests and direct against West Virginia Senator Manchin and Arizona Senator Sinema. (5/8/22)
WHERE THERE ARE GUNS … there will be violence, as the killings at a Portland demonstration show. (2/20/22)
THE PANOPTICON: Machine learning has helped identify some of the bad eggs in QAnon. Is that a good thing … or does it pose dangers of an all-seeing state? (2/20/22)
THE POWER OF WITNESS: Activism begins with first-hand understanding of repressed or dormant issues. (2/16/22)
DEEP DIVISIONS: The COVID shutdown deepened divisions in American society…leading to more intense activism. (3/2/11)