#AbolishICE: Targeting Prison Profiteers
There are ways, beyond just personal consumer choices, to make your voice heard and say that if these companies are going to be complicit with ICE, they’re going to feel the effect.
Street Movements
Free Humanitarians!
Long term prison-abolitionist strategies are not necessarily the same as those we’ll need to free individual prisoners in the short run. But in Sara and Seán’s case as in any other, it is important that we have critiques of the oppressive nature of prisons in mind while thinking about the specificity of their context.
Black Radicalism: “We need to start again.”
All of the great institutions in the West are built on the original sin of racism and genocide. What’s worse: it’s not like it stopped.
For a Green Revolution from Below
We have to keep struggling for what we think is right and needed, and we may even get some small improvements along the way, but we recognize that those are not enough. As we keep on doing this, it builds up the forces needed to drastically change conditions and the allocation of power in society.
Overcoming Identity Politics Paralysis
If we’re going to criticize identity politics, it must be from a perspective that is itself antiracist and feminist, one that is seeking the most useful way of thinking—and acting—to oppose racism and sexism.
Justice Over Order: Antifa in Depth
There’s a lot of antifa work that people aren’t giving credit to. It has been important in revealing Venn-diagrammatic circles that go all the way to the white house, and how these groups are organizing together.
Universalizing Resistance to Capitalism
As long as all these different movements are segmented into their own silos, they are likely to be contained. But when you bring them together…
Post-G20 Reflections
How long will we let ourselves be intimidated by state violence, all the while shouting, “We won’t be intimidated!”?
We Are More Than Them
Stop! Take the time to think it through. Who’s holding power? Who can give you what you need in the campaign that you’re trying to win? How much power do you have to bring to bear to win the fight?
When the Liberal Gay Agenda Really Is the Problem
Issues of homelessness and low economic opportunity should be front and center for the LGBTQ movement, because they’re hurting the section of our movement that is traditionally the most dynamic, which is young people.