After the uprising, what is to be done?
We have to continue to remind each other what we are owed, what we deserve, and what we can build together.
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Black radical imagination helps us transform our relationships to energy, land & economy
For those of us interested in exploring alternative visions for the future of land, economy, and energy, the answers on how best to achieve collective liberation may come in lessons hard-learned from the past.
Martin Luther King’s multiple lanes to multiracial democracy
May we continue to embrace King’s powerful advice that we pursue multiple, connected lanes in order to achieve racial justice and multiracial democracy.
Three Tons of Fascism with a Bull Bar
Like the brave women in Cedar Rapids, we must neither surrender the public square to the extremists nor allow them to bestow rights on vehicles and fossil fuels while revoking rights that belong to us and to the rest of nature.
Confronting “Policy Murder” and the Rising Violence of the Right
At a time when rights hard-won in past struggles are being wrested away from us, we can draw strength from the knowledge that if people-power has prevailed in so many such struggles before, it can prevail again.
Building Black Wealth: Understanding the Limits of Black Capitalism
Can Black liberation be achieved through individual successes within capitalism — through Black capitalism — as Booker T. Washington suggested? Or can true liberation for Black people in the United States only emerge through a collective struggle against racial capitalism?
Why Juneteenth Celebrations Should Acknowledge the 13th Amendment
A military order, the Emancipation Proclamation, did not formally end slavery. Chattel slavery was formally abolished in the United States via democratic process, by the 13th Amendment.
The Right to Remain Silent
It’s just one point of view of one morning of one rebellion, it’s just one drop in the narrative ocean, but my blood ran so cold when I saw the bill recently proposed to further strengthen the police and weaken the people during protests that I had to warm it up again somehow.
Revolutionary Power: Excerpt
We must view the battle for the design of the new, clean energy system through the same lens we use to view broader struggles for economic and civil rights.
The Transformative Power of Water: Flood Survivor/Activist Katherine Egland Fights the Struggle for Human Dignity
Around the world, across cultures and time, water has manifested itself as both life-creating and life-destroying. Never static, it constantly changes and transforms those in its wake. This is profoundly true for Katherine Egland.
Standing Rock Water Protectors Sue Police, Security Forces
Law enforcement and private security agencies that employed attack dogs, pepper spray and water cannons against Standing Rock water protectors will have to stand trial next August — not for use of excessive force, but for closing a road.
We Don’t Farm Because it’s Trendy: Farming is not New to Black People
For more than 150 years, from the rural South to northern cities, Black people have used farming to build self-determined communities and resist oppressive structures that tear them down.