Global Left Midweek – March 13, 2024
Portside
Women rock the world
Women rock the world
Women rock the world
books
Answering the Call: Strategy and Power-Building From the Bottom Up
Reviews 4 Radicals
The role of strategy in making social movements and organizations more effective, and who creates it, are the urgent questions four authors explore in three new books. Their answers will surprise you, as they surprised me.
Global Left Midweek – December 6, 2023
Portside
La Via Campesina on the global political context
books
When the Welfare Rights Movement Was a Powerful Force for Uplifting the Poor
The Indypendent
The War on Poverty comes to life in this newly updated edition of a book that explores how welfare mothers in Las Vegas built an organizing juggernaut that transformed lives.
music
Singing With Us, and for Us – An Interview With Musician and Activist Holly Near
The Progressive Magazine
An interview with musician and activist Holly Near. The arc of her professional life has spanned more than five decades in a most unique fashion, singing for a more peaceful, equitable, just, and feminist world.
Changing the ‘World as It Is’ Into the ‘World As It Should Be’
Waging Nonviolence
Resolving the conflict between being visionary and being pragmatic is critical for those who want to transform society. Can we be both visionary and strategic?
Global Left Midweek – December 14, 2022
Portside
Rage in Peru and Iran, and new takes on socialism
Green Tide Rising in Latin America
The Indypendent
U.S. has much to learn from new feminist movements that spurred Argentina, Colombia and Mexico to dump traditional abortion laws. Now powerful women’s movements in Mexico, Argentina and Colombia have won access to the right to choose
Global Left Midweek – June 29, 2022
Portside
The worldwide fight for abortion rights, Die Linke party congress, and a power shift in... Grenada!
Tidbits – June 23, 2022 – Reader Comments: Sheroes! Ruby Freeman and Shaye Freeman Ross; Medical Debt; Rent (and Profits) Driving Inflation; Afl-CIO Convention; HBO Documentary – The Janes; New U.S. Postage Stamp Honors Pete Seeger; More
Portside
Reader Comments: Sheroes! Ruby Freeman and Shaye Freeman Ross; Medical Debt; Rent (and Profits) Driving Inflation; AFL-CIO Convention; HBO Documentary - The Janes; New U.S. Postage Stamp Honors Pete Seeger; more ...
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