DANIEL HUNTER – General strikes can have a tremendous impact, but to succeed they require an organized majority, networks of solidarity and resources to weather repression.
King’s Dream Was Never Finished. It Continues to Demand Our Attention
GEORGE CASSIDY PAYNE – King’s dream was never meant to become a relic. It was a summons—urgent then, unfinished now. While he confronted segregation and economic exploitation, his vision was never confined to one era, one struggle, or one identity. It was a call for freedom wherever human beings are denied the full measure of their humanity.
Resistance Builds: ICE Out For Good, Iran Demonstrations and Italy’s National Strike
RIVERA SUN – Mass protests are powerful, often leading to the resignation of political leaders, but following up on a moment of breakthrough remains a challenge for many across the globe.
It Could Be a Wonderful World
LAWRENCE WITTNER – Although it’s tragic that powerful forces seem intent on building an unjust, lawless, and violent planet, let’s not forget that another world remains possible. Indeed, with an organized international effort, evidence shows that it could be a wonderful world.
From Minarets to City Hall: Zohran Mamdani, Islam, and the American Conscience Against War
GEORGE CASSIDY PAYNE – America likes to tell its story as a procession of wars won and enemies defeated. But its deeper moral history, the one that actually bends toward justice, has been written by those who resisted domination: slavery, empire, and the dangerous fiction that violence is the engine of progress. On a cold January afternoon outside City Hall, Zohran Mamdani stepped into that unfinished struggle. As he raised his right hand and took the oath of office as mayor of New York City—the first Muslim ever to do so—he embodied a quieter American tradition: the insistence that conscience belongs in public life.
The Next Frontier of Climate Accountability: Making Big Food Pay Its Ecological Bill
ALEX CRISP – The “polluter pays” principle transformed the energy industry half a century ago. Now, as industrial agriculture drives climate breakdown, deforestation, and water scarcity, experts say it’s time to apply the same rule to our food systems—and make corporations, not consumers, bear the cost of the damage.