Activism

From Alicia Garza to Annie Leonard, nine organizers share their hopes for the new year.

In the short run, the primary objective of a left movement must be to defend the urgent needs for survival of all the so-called 99% of the population. In order to do this, they have to control state institutions at all levels. This means navigating the dangerous shoals of electoral politic.

The Occupy movement is more than five years in the past, and its legacy is mainly one of frustration. But there is still much to be gained from those few tense weeks.

George Orwell’s preference for plain-speaking over artistic experimentation, common sense over high theory, and common decency over fashionable cynicism has made him one of the twentieth-century writers who remains not only readable but worth reading.

More than 70 years after hiding in a Berlin cellar, I’m faced once again with neo-Nazis spewing and spreading their hate and beliefs around white supremacy.

The Trump administration is reviving the threat of nuclear war in a way that no other U.S. presidency has done since the Cold War. It’s easy to feel disempowered in the face of such news, but the history of nuclear weapons since 1945 is one of extensive and frequent interventions by organized people in the United States and other countries to stop nuclear weapons deployments and nuclear war itself.