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A UE Guide to Democratic Practice

When “resistance grows, but the killing does not stop,” it’s time to become more strategic, methodical, innovative, collaborative and dedicated to justice regardless of the whims of corporate power, institutional oppression, or societal approval.

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Bernie Sanders and his apparent heir, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, have drawn enormous crowds on their “Fighting Oligarchy” tour. Sanders expresses confidence that anti-establishment anger could turn into something substantive for the left.

Trump's plan for Ukraine seems to be reaching a tipping point. European states may soon be confronted with an entirely different war. They will either have to decisively support Ukraine or we could see an end to democratic Europe.

The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

New research reveals how, by following different rules in the process of learning, neurons can perform multiple functions in parallel. This may have implications for human health and society, including new ways to design artificial neural networks.

Organized labor has taken a leading role in challenging the Trump administration’s downsizing agenda in court. A new service will offer more individualized representation.

It looks like potential contempt proceedings in the Alien Enemies Act case and the Abrego Garcia case will be running in parallel, leapfrogging each other for the right to be the Supreme Court’s biggest test so far of the Trump II presidency.

He is widely known in the upper Connecticut River Valley of Vermont, where he has been based since moving to the United States more than a decade ago, as a spiritual man who grew up Muslim, a practicing Buddhist, and whose closest friends are Jewish.