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United We Dream and Allies Demand Permanent Ceasefire and Immigrant Protections
Last week, I joined an action hosted by United We Dream in DC’s Capitol Hill. We demanded a ceasefire now in Gaza and permanent protections for immigrants who have made the United States our home. This...
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Manufacturing Consent: The Border Fiasco and the “Smart Wall”
The disastrous situation at the US-Mexico border is, and has been, intentionally produced. Throughout the last several administrations, regardless of campaign and other public rhetoric, the porous...
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Tribes of the Klamath Basin Show Us How to Heal a River
On January 16th, 2024, demolition experts blew a hole in the John C. Boyle Dam on the Klamath River in southern Oregon. One of four dams marked for demolition, it’s part of the largest dam removal...
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The Concept “Privilege”: Barrier or Bridge to Social Justice
I recently participated in a brief email exchange about “privilege” and it made me think a broader discussion might prove worthwhile. Does using the concept privilege as in “white privilege,” “male...
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Feminist and Mutual Aid in the Wake of Chilean Wildfires
“The most important thing is to take care of the place where you’re from. If you don’t, who else will?” asks Ana Paula Fuentes. She’s sitting in a deck chair surrounded by the ashes of what was her...
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Harold Washington’s Lessons for Taking on a Political Machine
Four decades ago, at the start of 1984, Harold Washington was finishing his historic opening year in office as Chicago’s first Black mayor. An outsider candidate who had been persuaded to run by the...
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Restoring Human Dignity on the U.S. Southern Border
In one of the most violent cities in the Western hemisphere, we meet with immigrants in a shelter trying to make their way to safety in the United States. Reynosa, Mexico is just across the border from...
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Under the Biden Administration, Family Separations and Other Atrocities Continue
President Joe Biden and his predecessor Donald Trump are in Texas today touring different sectors of the Southern border, a spectacle that encapsulates how central immigration is to each of their...
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W.E.B. Du Bois’ Study ‘The Philadelphia Negro’ at 125 Still Explains Roots of...
W.E.B. Du Bois is widely known for his civil rights activism, but many sociologists argue that he has yet to receive due recognition as the founding father of American sociology. His groundbreaking...
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Welcoming Relatives Home: A Ceremony for Salmon
Richard Whitney was raised on the Colville Reservation in north central Washington, and was always in the woods, cutting firewood, hunting, fishing, or just being “out there, on the rez,” especially...
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Europe’s Border Policies Are Sacrificing Migrant Lives for Corporate Profits
This February, France’s Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin unveiled plans for a large-scale military operation against migrants in Mayotte. The island chain hosts a major French naval base in the...
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How The ‘Fight Against Antisemitism’ Became A Shield For Israel’s Genocide
If you read the establishment media, you might conclude that a serious battle is being waged by Israel and its most ardent supporters to tackle an apparent new wave of antisemitism in the West. In...
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To Achieve Black Liberation, Class Independence Is Key
Since Emancipation, the issue of Black political representation has been an important one, especially after the defeat of Radical Reconstruction by the reactionary Jim Crow regime, which took away the...
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The Left Needs a Positive Vision for How Immigration Policy Should Actually Work
Militarized borders — comprising walls, barriers, fences and repressive border policies — have become something of the norm in today’s world, which otherwise is in favor of the free movement of goods...
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Why We Need a World Without Cars
In this Our Changing Climate climate change video essay, I look at the future of transportation. Specifically, I uncover why we need a world without cars. Instead, we need a future of dense...
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‘Opera has never been white’: The Invisible Legacy of Black Women in...
It was 1781 when a 14-year-old girl made her debut as an opera soloist in Saint-Domingue, the former French colony now called Haiti. She was a free person of color, the first person of African descent...
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Keep Eyes on Sudan
In the global discourse on humanitarian crises, the struggle of the Sudanese people is often overshadowed by more widely publicized conflicts. Currently home to over 10 million displaced individuals...
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U.S. Government Seeks “Unified Vision Of Unauthorized Movement”
As the immigration crisis continues and the Biden administration pursues a muscular enforcement strategy with an eye to public opinion and the 2024 presidential election, the Department of Homeland...
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DRC Bleeds Conflict Minerals For Green Growth
“Inside every phone is the blood of a Congolese person.” These words from Pascal Mirindi, a student and activist in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), encapsulate the deadly links between war,...
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U.S. Economy: Saved by Immigrants
In 2023, U.S. real GDP grew by 2.5% after inflation – much better than expected. This has been heralded by the media and mainstream economists as refuting the doomsayers that the U.S. economy was...
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