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The past four years have birthed a progressive movement so extraordinary it just might survive the forces that threaten its extinction.

Workers ages 16–24 face high unemployment and an uncertain future

Between COVID-19, structural racism, police brutality, climate change, plutocratic politics, and threats to democratic governance, it is time—past time—to say ENOUGH. The future is not a fact foretold: it is what people shape by our actions...

In this time of heightening crisis, we must be brave enough to use our full imaginations — and listen to those who have been dreaming of and fighting for just cities and communities for years.

Parties and movement groups, Cuba and Vietnam, and African scholar activists face the Corona crisis

"Why would we want a return to normalcy? We need a vision for the future, not a return to the past."

In the 2016 general election a full three out of four of Americans between the age of 18 and 29 said they were interested in politics.

It’s been more than two months since New York City students began boycotts at a different school campus each week. They’ve walked out of class to demand Mayor Bill de Blasio integrate one of the country’s most segregated school systems.

When schools introduce these technologies, they open the to door to labeling students’ normal thoughts, words, and movements as dangerous — and potentially involving law enforcement.

A look back on how multiracial Chicago-style coalition building has influenced organizing to this day. The trajectory of fearless grassroots, youth-driven, intersectional organizing set in motion by the 1969 Rainbow Coalition still resonates today.