Dispatches From the Culture Wars – Resistance Lessons
- The Deportation Machine
- Abortion Rights: Fuck the Middle Ground
- Defying Anti-Trans Actions
- Federal Employees Plan to Stay
- Chicago vs ICE
- How Airline Workers Did It
- Fight Greenwashing of Plastic Pollution
- Lessons from Last Time
- Nazis Get Burned in Ohio
- Sabotage Manual
By Lauren Carasik
Boston Review
Resisting Trump’s immigration regime will require a range of strategies and tactics including legal challenges, labor organizing, mass mobilization, and political pressure, including rapid response teams on the ground to bear witness, document, publicize crackdowns and to provide both humanitarian and legal aid to targeted migrants and their families.
Abortion Rights: Fuck the Middle Ground
By Jessica Valenti
Abortion, Every Day
In the short amount of time Donald Trump has been in office, anti-abortion extremists have been told they can attack clinics without fear of arrest, and the Republican party who once claimed they’d never punish women for abortion now say bills to prosecute patients as murderers “inspire healthy dialogue.” Do these sound like people interested in ‘compromise’?
By Kelly Hayes
Organizing My Thoughts
The message should be clear among all people of conscience: We will not cooperate with the fascist, anti-trans agenda. We will protect trans children. We will not live inside a fascist fantasy or impose it upon others. We will defy, resist and refuse. We will defend each other.
Federal Employees Plan to Stay
By Elizabeth Urban
The Latin Times
A memo titled “A Fork in the Road” offered to pay federal employees who did not wish to work in person for seven months if they agreed to resign from their positions by Feb. 6. As many social media users speculated that this was meant to replace workers who were less aligned with Trump, dozens of proclaimed employees took to Reddit to band together and agree not to take the offer.
By Sarah Lazare and Rebecca Burns
In These Times
When Trump moved to make an example of Chicago, sending federal immigration authorities to the city on Sunday, Chicago’s immigrant rights community was braced for it. The city’s vast networks of workers’ centers, unions, and community organizations have spent months preparing, disbursing flyers and cards, and sending the message to residents: Don’t talk to ICE.
By Maximillian Alvarez and Sara Nelson
The Real News
In 2019, flight attendants organized to end a government shutdown that threw airports around the country into chaos. Sara Nelson, international president of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, AFL-CIO, joins The Real News for a look back at the 2019 shutdown fight and how unions can give workers the tools they need to fight back over the next four years.
Fight Greenwashing of Plastic Pollution
Truthout spoke to several organizations that have spent years taking on the corporate forces behind plastics production, as well as frontline organizers from the Gulf Coast and Appalachia who are resisting fossil fuel and petrochemical interests.
By Brendan Ballou
Politico
People in this White House are largely unmoved by protest, and may even see acting in the face of public outrage as a kind of strength. But the federal government is a big place, and while various forms of demonstration — petitions, marches, discourse both online and off — may not affect political appointees, they can greatly affect those officials who actually implement government policies.
By Felicia Jordan
WCPO 9 Cincinnati
After roughly a dozen people displayed swastika-emblazoned flags on an overpass over I-75 near Lincoln Heights and Evendale, residents who live nearby say hate has no place in their communities. Photos and videos show community members grabbed ahold of one of the flags and burned it.
By Sébastian Siesta
France 24
Since the inauguration of Donald Trump in January, tens of thousands of people have downloaded the “Simple Sabotage Field Manual”, a guide written by a US intelligence agent in 1944 to help the allied resistance during World War II. Its newfound popularity comes amid an emerging grassroots opposition to waves of executive orders from the new president.