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The Golden Rule boat / credit: Screenshot from video

‘Golden Rule’ Boat Sails ‘Great Loop’ in U.S. & Canada to Raise Awareness About Global Nuclear Disaster

Gina Miranda Ajkin November 3, 2022 Gina Miranda Ajkin

Gina Miranda Ajkin provides a first-person account of setting sail on the Golden Rule, a boat that is traveling along the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico, the Saint Lawrence Seaway and the Great Lakes to raise public awareness about the increasing possibility of a global nuclear disaster.

Bringing Together Activism and Journalism: Q&A with Jacqueline Luqman, New Toward Freedom Board Member

Julie Varughese March 29, 2022 Julie Varughese

Toward Freedom welcomed Jacqueline Luqman onto the board of directors on March 17. Jacqueline brings a background in activism and in journalism, and describes herself as a "Pan-Africanist, anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist revolutionary." She recently told TF Editor Julie Varughese why she joined the board.

Dan Kovalik's book, Cancel This Book: The Progressive Case Against Cancel Culture (2021)

Book Review: ‘Cancel This Book’ Asks for a Return to Revolutionary Class Analysis

Danny Shaw February 4, 2022 Danny Shaw

Academic and activist Dan Kovalik’s new book, "Cancel This Book: The Progressive Case Against Cancel Culture," was written on the frontlines of the twin struggles of our time, the class struggle and the fight for Black liberation, writes Danny Shaw.

Cover of "The Radical Book Store: Counterspace for Social Movements"

Book Review: ‘The Radical Bookstore: Counterspace for Social Movements’

Matt Dineen August 13, 2021 Matt Dineen

In her new book, "The Radical Bookstore," University of Michigan professor Kimberley Kinder studies spaces and the role they continue to play in movements for social justice and transformation. She highlights the importance of brick-and-mortar “counterspaces” that help sustain organizing and movement building in between bursts of protest activity in the streets.

Protest at Plaza Baquedano in Santiago, Chile, on October 22 / credit: Carlos Figueroa

Meet the Communists Who Now Govern Chile

Vijay Prashad and Taroa Zúñiga Silva June 16, 2021 Vijay Prashad and Taroa Zúñiga Silva

A communist's victory and the gains made by the left alliance to shape the new Chilean constitution suggest Allende’s legacy—not Pinochet's—will shape the future.

Book Cover: The Water Defenders

Book Review: ‘The Water Defenders: How Ordinary People Saved a Country from Corporate Greed’

Charlotte Dennett May 31, 2021 Charlotte Dennett

This book is based on a struggle in a small section of a small country—El Salvador—beginning in 2002, when a group of “white men in suits” entered the province of Cabañas and tried to convince poor farmers that gold mining would be good for them.

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