How Black Parents Got Cops Out of Oakland Schools
After adopting the George Floyd Resolution for Police-Free Schools, Oakland-area schools saw significant reductions in racist criminalization of Black and Brown kids.
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In Defense of Butch Bodies
There鈥檚 power in a viral clapback. But what of the already-marginalized people whose identities again become a public punchline?
The Immigrants鈥� Rights Movement Must Be Multiracial
To reach its full potential, the immigrants鈥� rights movement needs to reject anti-Blackness and build a coalition as diverse as the people who comprise it.
Students for Gaza Are Undeterred
Beaten, doxxed, threatened, arrested, and suspended, college students learned from past movements to put their bodies on the line for Gaza.
Why So Many Young Asian Americans Stand With Palestine
This Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, let鈥檚 celebrate anti-war organizers.
Breaking Up With Capitalism
A paradigm shift for our economy begins when we name and see the anti-democratic bias that lies at the heart of our capital-centric system.
Union-Busting Is Rampant. Here鈥檚 How to Fight Back.
A two-step card check process is efficient, making it easier for workers to unionize with a simple majority.
Photo Essay: The Healing Power of Matriarchs
A photographer鈥檚 connections with eight Indigenous women have helped her come to terms with her own Native ancestry and colonial trauma.
Rethinking Arab American Heritage Month
Cultural heritage months are most useful when they鈥檙e leveraged as an opportunity to demand justice.
Murmurations: Wisdom From Women Changemakers
It鈥檚 more important than ever to commit to collective practices that generate hope, love, care, and community.
Murmurations: Flying Into the Spring Equinox
Like moths emerging from a cocoon, the spring equinox beckons us to embrace our re-imagined selves.
Murmurations: The Healing Power of Film
Centering healing justice in the filmmaking process offered this creator鈥攁nd everyone involved in the film鈥攁 powerful way to begin to heal core wounds.
The Equal Rights Issue Facing Straight Couples (in Bed)
Data shows that straight, cisgender women are much less likely to have orgasms during sex than their cis male partners. Is it possible to remedy this erotic inequality?
Murmurations: Making Space for Intentional Adaptation
Moving at the speed of trust has allowed this cooperative to create new visions of abundance鈥攆ar beyond what white supremacist patriarchal hegemony deemed possible.
Don鈥檛 Let Zionists Weaponize Jewish Suffering
Ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day, it鈥檚 essential to remember that 鈥渘ever again鈥� means for anyone.
Learning to Love What Nourishes My Son
For this California mom, supporting her medically complex son鈥檚 relationship with food meant relinquishing control and embracing what worked.
Murmurations: Balancing Duality on Winter Solstice
Alexis Pauline Gumbs offers a Winter Solstice spell to help us embrace the darkness and light of this moment.
The Palestine Exception to Campus Free Speech
Writing under a pseudonym to protect herself, a high school student details the intimidation she and her peers have faced from schools for protesting the Gaza genocide.
Murmurations: There Will Be Living, After All
If we do not turn away from our grief, we can use it to craft armor, building a new demographic that will rise from the rubble to dance like dust.
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All I Want for Christmas Is a Ceasefire
Instead of cancelling Christmas in the face of the genocide in Gaza, this observant Christian Arab American author shares proactive steps to press for peace.
A Jewish American Says 鈥淣ot in My Name!鈥�
Many Jewish Americans鈥攊ncluding the thousands who have been arrested protesting Israel鈥檚 war on Gaza鈥攃onsider solidarity with Palestinians to be a moral imperative.
There鈥檚 No Justification for Destroying Gaza鈥檚 Health Infrastructure
In this op-ed鈥攚hich the Journal of the American Medical Association rejected鈥攖hree doctors say the medical establishment should be morally unambiguous on bombing hospitals.
Murmurations: Moving from Punishment to Accountability
How can we hold accountable systems that are designed only to understand punishment?
California Shouldn鈥檛 Ration Care for Disabled Kids
What good is a waiver program intended to help families access in-home care for medically fragile children if the program is full?
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