Jovita Idar, Emma Tenayuca, and Cecilia Rodriguez’s collective-action strategies and activism offer important lessons for today’s nonprofit and social movements working to combat authoritarianism, discrimination, violence, and economic inequality.
Kansas was the first. Now dozens of states are advancing restrictive laws that affect the daily lives of transgender people.
With the denial of accessible, dignified care, disabled Americans continue to be written out of this country’s story.
As anti-LGBTQ+ legislation surges across the country, queer soccer leagues in New York City are building the kind of community and belonging that laws can’t legislate away.
“Without belonging, there can be no true democracy. This moment requires us to affirm that commitment. It is in this spirit that I offer a new declaration.”
The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition is working to document the histories of US boarding school survivors and push for passage of the Truth and Healing Commission bill.
Juneteenth is about freedom, and the tax system should be built to enact that freedom materially by rewarding care, housing, labor, and public goods, not just wealth. Our taxes should finance a care infrastructure that is reparative of past and present inequalities.
For generations, we have treated racism as though it exists in opposition to the project of American democracy rather than within it. Yet the persistence of racial inequality reveals that American democracy has historically relied upon it to hold the majority white nation together.
The Endangered Species Act, one of the strongest laws protecting biodiversity, has been weakened by the Trump Administration. But advocates are raising awareness about what’s at stake.
As the United States marks 250 years of its founding promises, the Colored Farmers’ National Alliance and Cooperative Union deserves to be part of that reckoning as evidence of what becomes possible when people decide to build cooperative power from the ground up.
Community benefit agreements create enforceable commitments on labor standards, local hiring, and environmental issues remediation, shifting economic development from a zero-sum conflict into a genuine negotiation.
A letter of gratitude for pathbreaking fundraisers Kim Klein and Stephanie Roth.