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Hundreds of activists take to the streets uplifting the anti-imperialist women’s movement / credit: Hannah Ballesteros

International Women’s Alliance Uplifts Militant Grassroots Struggles in First U.S.-Based Conference

Julie Varughese March 14, 2023 Julie Varughese

Hundreds of mostly women gathered at Washington, D.C.-based Catholic University's Maloney Hall during the first weekend of March to convene the first U.S.-based conference of an international grassroots women's alliance and help strengthen its U.S. chapter. TF editor Julie Varughese reports.

“Cruelties of slavery" / source: The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1835-05.

The Myth of American Exceptionalism: From the Beginning

Stephen Joseph Scott September 20, 2021 Stephen Joseph Scott

Within U.S. social movements, American Exceptionalism increasingly has been used to explain the ideology that guides U.S. interventions around the world and against domestic colonized populations, such as African and Indigenous peoples. This essay seeks to examine the roots of this ideological framework.