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What Is a Country For?

Fighting for the Good Life in Trumplandia. The post What Is a Country For? appeared first on Peninsula Peace and Justice Center.

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Standing Rock Is a Model of the Right of Peaceful Assembly

What practices lead a peaceful assembly to achieve its stated social, political or economic goals? [In] America, we might look to Standing Rock for clues. The post Standing Rock Is a Model of the Right...

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Five Ways Trump’s “News Conference” Wasn’t a News Conference

Tyrants don’t allow open questioning, and they hate the free press. They want total control. That’s why Trump’s so-called “news conference” on December 11 – the first he’s held in six months – wasn’t...

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Donald Trump Is Trying to Whitewash Mass Protest of His Inauguration,...

Major media outlets have reportedly been told they will not be permitted access to a site of a major protest during the inaugural parade of President-elect Donald Trump. The post Donald Trump Is Trying...

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Five Points of Defiance and Moral Courage From Fired AG Sally Yates’ Letter...

With the firing of Acting Attorney General Sally Yates late Monday, President Trump has made it clear there is no room for dissent nor a moral compass in his increasingly authoritarian regime. The post...

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How Do We Stop Trump and Win Gains in Justice and Equality?

Last week, Lakey wrote A 10-point Plan to Stop Trump and Make Gains in Justice and Equality. The piece went wildly viral as people respond, "In short, there’s good reason to see the Trump era as an...

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Frederick Douglass: Power Concedes Nothing Without a Demand

The spirit of resistance for which Frederick Douglass is best remembered is alive and well, and is directed squarely against the Trump administration. The post Frederick Douglass: Power Concedes...

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Welcome to the Police State of America for Immigrants

The bottom line of his orders is to give permission to ICE and local cops around the country to use their own judgment in enforcing this vague law. Latinos, immigrants and citizens alike, will be...

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Congress Is Trying to Use the Spending Bill to Criminalize Boycotts of Israel...

Congressional leaders from both sides of the aisle are planning to sneak a bill criminalizing politically motivated boycotts of Israel into the end-of-the-year omnibus spending bill. The bill would...

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The Real Wall Isn’t at the Border

In the end, what are borders supposed to protect us from? The answer used to be other states, empires or sovereigns. But today, relatively few land borders exist to physically fend off a neighboring...

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