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The health emergency of the coronavirus is inseparable from the health emergency of extinction, biodiversity loss and climate change.

Repression, resistance and political organizing in five continents, and two inspiring leaders remembered

It will take sustained progressive political pressure now and into the future to dismantle the powerful fascist forces that threaten our democracy.

“...electoral power alone will not get us free. Protests alone are insufficient. We need to vote. We need to protest. We need to organize. We need to study. We need to strike. And then we need to protest again.”

While keeping people focused on a strong, robust election process is a must, we also need to prepare for a coup.

Reject the lie...that judges are impartial and the courts are apolitical. Shaping the law of the land is within the grasp of ordinary people, and it’s time for us to close that hand into a fist.

The...pressing matter is why there are conditions for such extreme fires in the first place. Climate change is one of the culprits. Western colonization of the state resulted in the wiping out of Indigenous knowledge of fire management.

Can you explain “peaceful transition"? Where is the “Red Menace”? Is there a “Latin vote”? Why does “crazy” = “evil”? Another week, harder questions

How Dana DeBeauvoir set off the biggest, weirdest, and most promising revolution in election technology since the 1800s.

The Lightfoot administration intercepted at least $27 million in 2020 from residents’ state tax refunds to collect on debt, disproportionately hitting lower income neighborhoods and communities of color.