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“If you want people to do the right thing you have to make it easy, and we’ve made it hard.”

The corporate media never challenge the underlying and pernicious myth that anti-racist struggle is a zero-sum game in which the oppressed gain at the expense of other non-elite sectors of the population.

Wednesday’s victory is the result of five years of mass protest marches by Argentina’s grassroots women’s movement, which began as a Twitter campaign against gender violence.

Reports from the world of tech and mass media, closing out the year from hell

"It would be unconscionable, especially after the House did the right thing, for the Senate to simply leave Washington without voting on this."

These stories ask the hard questions, directly call out root causes, and remind us that we all have a role to play in creating a more just, sustainable, and compassionate world.

Unions should be holding more political discussions with their members—and listening closely to their needs

Progressive Democrats in Rhode Island won victories that could transform the state’s politics.

What is the wellspring of Black feminist theory? It is important to provide a corrective to the misperception that intersection theory has its genesis in the academy, or, worse still, that it can be attributed to a single discipline...or individual.

In order to access the power we need to change our lives, we must work to dismantle power as domination and instead, advance power through interdependence, relationship and cooperation.