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Protest & Resistance


Clinic Defense in the Era of Operation Rescue

Suzy Subways

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In the early ’90s, anarchists and other feminists defended clinics with our bodies and taught each other how to do abortion techniques such as menstrual extraction safely. As the Christian Right bombed hundreds of clinics, killed ...

Rebellion, Routinized

Vivian Kelke

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When the Kenosha verdict dropped in November 2021, the 2020 uprising in my city was still limping along. The actions were led by the same thirty or so people and attended by the same hundredish. The ...

What is Happening in South Africa?

Abahlali baseMjondolo

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We are reprinting a statement from the group Abahlali baseMojondolo dated July 13, 2021.  Abahlali is a grassroots organization that represents shack dwellers, squatters and poor people in and around the east coast port of eThekwini ...

Thankful for President Trump: Thanksgiving with Stop the Steal

Jarrod Shanahan

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On Thanksgiving morning supporters of President Trump’s doomed reelection effort descended on the Loop neighborhood of Chicago to raise the battle cry “Stop the Steal!” The “steal” in this tortured locution is the purported Democratic Party ...

Direction

Mike Morgan

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I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth, The north side of my town faced east, and the east was facing south “Substitute” by The Who (1966) Most thinking people on the side of ...

COVID, protest, and now fire: Portland at a tipping point

Peter Little

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The past four months in Portland have felt like nature doling out warning slaps, demonstrating the fragility of all of our systems. In the midst of years of far right groups mobilizing and marching in the ...

In the Eye of the Storm: A Report from Kenosha

Fran, JF and Lane

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What’s so simple in the moonlight by the morning never is.  -Bright Eyes The night of the shooting, bands of armed white men dotted the landscape before we even arrived in Kenosha. Police roadblocks along I-94 ...

Roundtable Discussion II on the Anti-Police Brutality Insurgency

Hard Crackers Editors

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Can a movement be built that relies upon different forms of action without being substantially limited by the political views that perhaps inform the least militant of the protestors?  Importantly, young people, frequently including teenagers, have ...

Am I Allowed to Breathe?

Eric King

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Am I allowed to breathe? Is that a punishable offense? Am I allowed to feel Is that a shot? Are my thoughts read like my letters scanned and stored to be used against me later My ...

Killing Time

Tim Bruno

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You can hear a sulking refrain from some corners of the internet lately, usually from armchair revolutionaries, celebrity leftists, or just the “extremely online”: the militant phase of the 2020 uprising against police terror is over—liberal ...