ANDREW MOSS – If coalition members are serious about protecting democracy as a whole – not just their own institutional turf – they’ll be willing to leave their familiar silos. If, for example, an M.L. King or a U.S. President can walk a picket line, so can the president of your alma mater, or the head of that prominent law firm in your town. Or, for that matter, so can the rest of us.
This campaign against deportation flights shows how to target companies enabling Trump
ANDREW WILLIS GARCES and CHRISTI CLARK – Winning high-stakes fights against powerful opponents like Avelo, an airline working with ICE, requires undermining their key pillars of support.
Why Trump, the “Peacemaker,” Can’t Secure Peace
LAWRENCE WITTNER – The people of the world have a great deal to gain by strengthening international organizations that are genuinely committed to fostering peace.
How Bad Does It Have to Get Before the DNC Declares an Emergency?
NORMAN SOLOMON – Right now, the Democratic Party appears to be stuck in a never-ending logjam. The only real possibilities for major improvement will come from progressives who make demands and organize to back them up with grassroots power.
Touching Insight into the Reality of the Gaza War
ROBERT C. KOEHLER – The slaughter goes on, usually in the name of war, which reduces human life to, at best, a strategic abstraction. Dead civilians – dead children – are collateral damage, which means they’re nothing at all.
In Trump’s America, Which Side Are You On?
BRAD WOLF – In 1958, legendary peace activist Philip Berrigan asked a youth retreat group the following question: “What’s it going to be with you? Are you going to go through life playing both ends against the middle, playing cozy, not committing yourself, sitting on the fence?” That question is as potent, and as dangerous, today as it was then. For us, and for the victims in the breach.