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US military archbishop says Iran conflict does not meet ‘just war’ standard Catholic Timothy Broglio says ‘hard to cast this war as something that would be sponsored by the Lord’

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No Cheers For Anarchism - Dissent Magazine Anarchists are better dreamers than doers. A successful movement requires compromise, organization, and leadership to actually get things done.

“if you care deeply about an issue and are engaged in group activity on its behalf that is fun and inspiring and heightens your sense of solidarity with others . . . you are most certainly not doing your cause any good.”
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The radical practice of solidarity - Daily Emerald Violence. Destruction. Absolute chaos. That’s what many people think of when they hear the word “anarchy.” But Zack, co-founder of the Neighborhood Anarchist Collective, believes that while rage certa...

Anarchist organizing in Anarres' orbit.
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The reckoning over Cesar Chavez signals the perils of building a movement around a single leader The conflation of Chavez’s image with the fight for farm worker rights is partly because most books on the movement have been written by white people

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The Good Liars @thegoodliars.bsky.social handed out Epstein Files at CPAC

always good, always insightful

Long live the new flesh!

Reclaiming radical democracy in times of a civilizatory crisis - Undisciplined Environments by Carlos Tornel In Ancestral Future, the Brazilian Indigenous leader and philosopher Ailton Krenak recounts the story of the Maxakali community, an Indigenous group from...

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The Chicana grassroots theater troupe that fought the patriarchy during the farmworker movement Teatro Chicana told the experiences of women who were often left out.

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How to View Protests Like an Organizer An organizer looks at a mass protest and sees something completely different than the cynic does.

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Live Updates: Hundreds protest outside ICE building in Portland The demonstration comes just after the third “No Kings” protest concluded. At least two people have been arrested outside the facility.

Hundreds of protesters have gathered outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Portland, a frequent landing spot for anti-Trump demonstrations in the past year.

Chicano Studies program pioneer Rudy Acuña dies at 93 Acuña’s landmark 1972 textbook “Occupied America: A History of Chicanos” continues to be taught in schools.

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Preorder page for my kids book, FIGHT TO WIN!

Did you know that the paperback version of my labor history book for young readers, ‘Fight to Win!’ is coming out in paperback soon, at a very low price point, right in time for summer reading lists?

Now you do, and you can preorder it for 25% off here!

www.barnesandnoble.com/w/fight-to-w...

Time to organize

“So y’all hate Black people who are ICE agents?”

You know what to do…

Death cult

Workers who fall for ‘corporate bullshit’ may be worse at their jobs, study finds New study finds that employees impressed by corporate speak may be least equipped to make effective decisions

Bullshit talk for bullshit jobs
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Cesar Chavez abuse allegations spur a movement to disavow the man — without erasing Latino history Chavez became the face of Latino civil and labor rights in the media and in history books. But scholars and activists are asking why "a community is only allowed to have one figure."

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'I do believe I'll have the honor of taking Cuba': Trump says President Donald Trump said Monday he believes he will soon have “the honor of taking Cuba,” but declined to say what that would involve.

Why must everything sound so rapey with him?
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Spain’s king acknowledges ‘much abuse’ in the conquest of the Americas Spain’s King Felipe says Spain’s conquest of the Americas involved abuse and ethical controversy, as Spain and Mexico remain at odds over calls for an apology.

"Much abuse"? How about 90% of the continent's population within a few decades?
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This bears endless repeating

The thing of it is, it doesn't have to be be like this.

The Lonesome Death of Daphy Michel Watch now | Haitian Woman, 31, Dies Alone at Pittsburgh Bus Stop Days After ICE Released Her Far From Home to Die.

We have been raising the alarm about detainees dying in DHS custody, but there must also be accountability for these release related deaths.

Justice for Daphy, for Nurul and every disabled person caught in this deadly machinery of ethnic cleansing.
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Is the "No Kings" Movement Effective Against Authoritarianism? YouTube video by Anarres Project for Alternative Futures

New No Kings protest at the end of this month. What organizing possibility does it offer?
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Hulu's Dystopian Masterpiece Continues With Shocking New Spin-Off Series Trailer Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale continues in shocking new spin-off series trailer for The Testaments.

We gave up a long time ago on this dytopian fest over at Hulu. Now there is more?
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If… if… what is so unbelievable? Nineteen children died in Uvalde.

Museum of Sex exhibit showcases 300 objects from American cults and communes Curator Jodi Wille spent years inside commune archives. The result: 300 objects from 20 groups at the Museum of Sex.

Utopias of pleasure. #utopia
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The greatest danger of bombs is in the explosion of stupidity that they provoke.
- Octave Mirbeau