To counter the march toward militarism at home and abroad, we need a winning message and broad coalition engaged in ...

Like many during this pandemic, Hayk Makhmuryan, an Armenian-American tenant organizer and interpreter in Glendale, California, has re-thought the way they work and organize. However, thanks to the ...

In today’s media world — especially if you live inside the U.S. media bubble — if you hear news about foreign countries, it tends to be about business, political leaders, wars or disasters. Overall, ...

This is part of a series of interviews with experienced organizers and movement thinkers on ways to defend and expand democracy amidst the rising authoritarian tide globally. Recently, a resurgence of ...

This article is adapted from a Choose Democracy newsletter email. The news is moving so fast that it’s hard to make meaning out of each twist and turn. In a 24-hour span, Border Patrol turned tail and ...

As I read Jeremy Varon’s new book “Our Grief is Not a Cry for War: The Movement to Stop the War on Terror,”I wanted to scream: We were right! The peace movement predicted and forewarned the cataclysm ...

“Who will own the forests? Who will own the sky?” sang dozens of umbrella-wielding protesters as rain drizzled outside the World Forestry Center in Portland, Oregon on Sept. 25. Inside the building, ...

This article was first published by TomDispatch. Groton and New London, Connecticut, are home to about 65,000 people, three colleges, the Coast Guard Academy, 15 nuclear-powered, nuclear-armed ...

At a rally near the White House, 40 white nationalist National Justice Party, or NJP, members demanded a ceasefire in Gaza on Oct. 28. “[In] a country as broke as ours … why the hell are they dragging ...

Since the presidential elections in autocratic Mozambique last October that were marred by corruption, according to the opposition and international watchdogs, a nationwide pro-democracy grassroots ...

This article was written as a talk for Upaya Zen Center and first published on Meditations in an Emergency. Twenty years ago, on August 29, 2005, a huge hurricane hit the Gulf Coast. New Orleans’s ...

This story was first published by YES! Magazine. Native comedy has been around since, well, the beginning. The roots of Native humor are deep and structurally meaningful—and well-known in Native ...