KEVIN FOSTER – With the Trump administration’s aggressive anti-immigrant policies, community is more important than ever among migrant rights advocates. Portland’s Asylum Seeker Solidarity Collective is building trust and community through mutual aid.
Resistance to Trump is everywhere — inside the first 50 days of mass protest
RIVERA SUN – From mass refusals to boycotts to walkouts, regular Americans are bravely pushing back against the administration. Their actions are diverse and multiplying — and already having an impact.
Are We Fine with Empty Seats? The Policy of Othering
PATRICK T. HILLER – Resisting the Trump administration’s agenda is not about partisanship. And no, it is not about being “sore losers,” as someone called us during the protest. It is about humanity. If we ignore the signs, we may one day see more empty chairs in our schools, workplaces, and communities—not because of a protest, but because a government decided certain people do not belong. I refuse to stay silent. When my son comes home from school, asking why his classmates’ seats are empty, I want to tell him I resisted.
There’s a new silent majority — and they need to be activated
NATHAN STOCK – Most Americans still support democracy and oppose political violence. The task before us then is to build a vocal majority, planning and organizing across the political divide to stand up for the values that so many of us share.
Mahmoud Khalil, David Bohm and the Fight for America
KARY LOVE – Your fathers and mothers, your long-gone ancestors, fought and won against monstrous evil in the past to win your rights; surely you can stand now against the trembling bone-spur weakling purporting to be authorized to chainsaw away the nation’s principles. Rise, join the innumerable ranks of the ghosts of patriots and brothers and sisters in arms, and those who march today, who refuse Kings and Empires and march together, invincible in their right, to succor “freedom and justice for all.”
Propaganda About AI and Nuclear Power Continues, but Does Not Hold Up
M.V. RAMANA – Lewis Mumford once despaired: “our technocrats are so committed to the worship of the sacred cow of technology that they say in effect: Let the machine prevail, though the earth be poisoned, the air be polluted, the food and water be contaminated, and mankind itself be condemned to a dreary and useless life, on a planet no more fit to support life than the sterile surface of the moon”.