- Resistance is Everywhere
- Diego Rivera is Still Radicalizing
- National Guardsmen Question Deployments
- Why the Cave?
- The Great Examples of LA and Chicago
- ADL’s Campaign Against Mamdani
- Clues from the Business World
- Texas A&M Bans Discussion of Racism and Sexism
- Maine Leans to Progressive Populist
- Alice Wong 1974-2025
By Rebecca Solnit
The Guardian
Though activists and organizations are defending everything from renewable energy to reproductive rights, the heart of active resistance is now solidarity with those under attack by the border patrol, ICE and the other agencies assigned to terrorize, brutalize, kidnap and violate rights across the country. This manifests in myriad ways.
Diego Rivera is Still Radicalizing
By Lee DeVito
Detroit Metro Times
Mexican artist Diego Rivera’s Detroit Industry Murals stand tall and proud inside the Detroit Institute of Arts, a monument to the power of workers and a city long associated with organized labor. Those murals, in part, have inspired DIA workers to move to form a union. The DIA Workers United is asking for voluntary recognition from the museum.
National Guardsmen Question Deployments
The administration started sending troops into several Democratic-led cities this summer. In recent weeks, more than 100 active military members have reached out to About Face, a nonpartisan nonprofit made up of current service members and post-9/11 veterans to be a resource for those who might be questioning their deployments, according to the organization.
By Igor Bobic, Jennifer Bendery and Arthur Delaney
Huffpost
Conversations between rank-and-file Democrats and Republicans, particularly among senior appropriators, got more serious about a week before the Nov. 4 elections in Virginia, New York and New Jersey. Democrats’ sweeping victories in these elections delayed the eventual deal — caving immediately after the results would have looked terrible for the party — but the writing was on the wall before they took place.
The Great Examples of LA and Chicago
By Martín Macías, Jr. and Francia Garcia Hernandez
Los Angeles Public Press
With Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) set to receive a $75 billion budget increase, LA and Chicago are offering a blueprint to residents of other cities for the fight to come. Neighbors are protecting those around them, providing food, recording potential constitutional violations and sharing resistance strategies for others to replicate.
ADL’s Campaign Against Mamdani
By Alice Speri
The Guardian
The head of an antisemitism watchdog has come out against the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and other groups for their “divisive, hyperbolic and aggressive response” to Zohran Mamdani’s election, warning that a combative stance towards the New York City mayor-elect is a gift to the far right. Nexus criticized the ADL for announcing an initiative to “monitor” the incoming Mamdani administration for antisemitic bias.
By Paul Engler
Waging Nonviolence
In order to meet the dire challenges that face us, social movements are going to need new and creative strategies. In considering where such innovation might come from, there is a concept that is much discussed in the business world that I think offers a useful provocation for social movements. It is called the “innovator’s dilemma.”
Texas A and M Bans Discussion of Racism and Sexism
By Emma Whitford
Inside Higher Ed
Courses that “advocate race or gender ideology, sexual orientation, or gender identity” now require presidential approval at Texas A and M system campuses. The policy changes fit a pattern of censorship that escalated after a video of a student challenging an instructor about a lesson on gender identity went viral, leading to the instructor’s firing and the resignation of then-president Mark Welsh.
Maine Leans to Progressive Populist
By Nicholas Jacobs
The Conversation
While Graham Platner’s senatorial campaign is fueled by national money, its local base extends beyond the usual Portland orbit. The economic populism he’s advancing speaks directly to the material frustrations many rural residents express – frustration with corporate consolidation, rising costs and the feeling that prosperity never reaches their communities.
By Miles W. Griffis
The Sick Times
Alice Wong, a fierce disability activist and advocate for people with Long COVID died on November 14. She was 51. Wong, born with spinal muscular atrophy, believed deeply in the importance of disabled storytelling throughout her life. She wrote bravely about her life, uplifted community, and significantly changed the landscape for people with disabilities.
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