- Free DC
- Beating ICE in LA
- Street Socialism in NYC
- Fighting the Fugitive Slave Act One City at a Time
- Abortion Access in Missouri
- Miccosukee Tribe Closes Alligator Alcatraz
- Roberts Overrules Law
- The Movement Behind Mamdani
- Tide Turns for Israel and the US Right
- How South Asians Fought Fascism
By Abby Vesoulis
Mother Jones
The DC locals who are wrestling with the increased presence of law enforcement say megaphones and mass demonstrations are unlikely to mollify the hazards of a heightened police state—and may bring bigger dispatches of law enforcement, which could target more immigrants and other vulnerable populations.
• Survival is a Strategy and Freedom is a Coin Toss By Erick Galindo, L.A. Taco
• Angelenos Get Prepared By Sonali Kolhatkar, Truthout
By Nicholas Powers
The Indypendent
What could New York be? More importantly, who could we be? Every day is like a drum beat, the Republicans attack: they do ICE raids, they rob the poor to give to the rich, they arrest protesters. New Yorkers are forced to choose. Either turn on each other like snitches, or unite and fight.
Fighting the Fugitive Slave Act One City at a Time
By Waleed Shahid
Waleed’s Substack
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, a cornerstone of the Compromise of 1850, required Northern states to assist in capturing escaped enslaved people and returning them to bondage. The act’s enforcement became a running series of confrontations between federal marshals and abolitionist civil society.
By Robin Fries
Abortion, Every Day
In November of 2024, Missourians voted to overturn the total abortion ban in our state, making abortion legal for some. This was a hard fought win for abortion advocates, who believed Amendment 3 would return abortion access to the state. Missouri politicians didn’t waste a minute before working to undo the will of the voters.
Miccosukee Tribe Closes Alligator Alcatraz
By Amy Green
Inside Climate News
A federal judge has ordered a winding down of operations at Florida’s Alligator Alcatraz, the hastily assembled Everglades detention site for incarcerating thousands of supposed migrants before deporting them. Environmental groups and the Miccosukee Tribe successfully sued to stop the facility.
By Ed Pilkington
The Guardian
The chief justice of the US has emboldened Trump’s drive toward authoritarianism. Roberts is anything but the modest judge he claims to be. Rather, he has used his power as chief justice to promote a rightwing agenda from the moment George W Bush placed him in the court’s central seat in 2005.
By Charlie Heller, Brandon Tizol, Lawrence Wang and Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
Hammer and Hope
Scrappy leftist organizers are learning their political campaigns “can succeed by being creative and speaking the truth in interesting ways.”
Tide Turns for Israel and the US Right
By Ben Lorber
+972
Support for the seemingly ironclad relationship between the U.S. and Israeli right has steadily eroded among the MAGA base and vanguard. And since the Israel-Iran war in June, the cracks on the surface have widened into a chasm — pointing to a seismic shift that stands to remake the American right.
How South Asians Fought Fascism
By Maya Bhardwaj
The Forge
South Asians in both the subcontinent and the diaspora share lessons for fighting fascism on two fronts. South Asian resistance movements offer vital strategies for combating rising fascism globally through transnational solidarity, grassroots organizing, and cultural defiance.
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