VIDEO: Chris Hedges Looks at Violence Against Blacks With Revolutionaries Eddie Conway, Ojore Lutalo

Staff / Truthdig Aug 26, 2015 In this week's episode of his TeleSUR show “Days of Revolt,” Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges speaks with former Black Panther Eddie Conway and former Black Liberation Army member Ojore Lutalo about the state's response to the uprisings in the black community during the 1960s and ’70s and how that applies to the Black Lives Matter protests today. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

VIDEO: Chris Hedges on Teaching in Prison and Learning ‘What It Means to Resist’

Staff / Truthdig Jul 8, 2015 In this clip from his June 7 talk in Los Angeles, Truthdig columnist and Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges tells the very personal story of how teaching a class in a maximum security prison gave him deeper insights into what it means to stand up against injustice. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Flipping the Script: Rethinking Working-Class Resistance

By Henry A. Giroux, Truthout Jun 11, 2015 I came alive as a youth when I realized that what the ruling class called my deficits were actually my strengths: a sense of solidarity, compassion, a merging of the mind and the body, a willingness to learn and take risks, embracing passion, connecting knowledge to power, being attentive to the injuries of others and embracing a sense of social justice. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )

Justice for Stanley Cohen

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Oct 12, 2014 Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges speaks out against the possible 18-month prison sentence on tax charges of social justice attorney and activist Stanley Cohen in a short video that features Cohen describing the purpose and meaning of his work. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Gaza to Afghanistan: Killing Machines and the Madness of Militarism

By Henry A. Giroux, Truthout Jul 25, 2014 Incapable of thinking beyond military solutions to social problems, militarism absolves individuals and governments, if not the public, of the horror produced by the weapons it builds. Moreover, just as it erases the memory of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it suggests that the killing of hundreds of children in Gaza is a necessity. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Now You See Me

By Laura Gottesdiener, TomDispatch Jan 24, 2014 Growing up in a well-heeled suburban community, I absorbed our society’s distaste for dissent long before I was old enough to grasp just what was being dismissed, which is why I traveled thousands of miles to a Zapatista “organizing school” in the heart of the Lacandon jungle in southeastern Mexico to try to sort out just what I’d been missing. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

The Tasks of The People-Powered Movement for 2014

By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance Jan 10, 2014 In this stage of America's current social-political movement, which could take many years, our primary task is to build national consensus through broad and deep grass-roots organizing. Dig deeper ( 14 Min. Read )

Martin Luther King and the Two 9/11s

By Ariel Dorfman, TomDispatch Aug 29, 2013 So much has changed since that hot day in August 1963 when Martin Luther King delivered his famous words from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. So much -- and yet so little. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

Independence From Terror

By Subhankar Banerjee, Climate Story Tellers Jul 4, 2013 Do we write words of mourning? Or do we write words of resistance? Those two braids have joined and from now on will flow together -- in our age of the Anthropocene. Dig deeper ( 14 Min. Read )

Recurring Nightmares? Wake Up and Take Action

By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers May 17, 2013 The weekly news is like a recurring bad dream that is becoming an even worse nightmare. While the investor class cheers a rising stock market, the rest of us sink. The headline that jumped out at us this week came from Bloomberg News: "CEO Pay 1,795-to-1 Multiple of Wages Skirts U.S. Law." Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Fearlessness Grows From the Grass Roots

By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers May 10, 2013 As people see that the government represents Wall Street and concentrated wealth instead of their interests, more of them are becoming fearless. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

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