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The Partisans in the Forest

A. C. Corey / n+1 Jan 25, 2024 Stop Cop City, movement building, and the history of post-uprising fragmentation. Dig deeper ( 14 Min. Read )

Chris Hedges and Mr. Fish / Truthdig Jul 1, 2019 His contrasting roles as revolutionary tactician and dictator offer lessons for a U.S. society under the heel of capitalist greed. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )

The Cult of Violence Always Kills the Left

Chris Hedges and Mr. Fish / Truthdig Apr 16, 2018 In an interview, Mark Rudd looks back with regret on his advocacy of violence as a young radical, and he offers up some advice for today’s activists: “The thing about nonviolence is that it works.” Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )

How to Build a Progressive Movement in a Polarized Country

George Lakey / Waging Nonviolence Mar 16, 2018 From coast to coast, activists in the United States wonder: Does this condition leave us stuck? No. We have a roadmap to progress. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

Bill Ayers, Public Enemy

Sonali Kolhatkar / Truthdig Oct 18, 2013 I asked Ayers, the man many Americans know as the “unrepentant domestic terrorist,” to share his advice for young Americans today. He had three basic tenets. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Bill Ayers: Try Obama, Bush for War Crimes

Staff / Truthdig Jun 19, 2013 “Every president in this century should be put on trial,” the professor and former Weather Underground member said. “Every one of them goes into an office dripping with blood and then adds to it. And, yes, I think that these are war crimes. I think that they’re acts of terror.” Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Deadly Weather: ‘This Is Just the Beginning’

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jul 3, 2012 Recent weeks have seen the worst wildfires in Colorado history, the breaking of 2,000 temperature records, a mid-Atlantic storm that killed 23 and left millions without power, and a heat wave that sent the East Coast and the Midwest back to the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. But few mainstream meteorologists are talking about climate change. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Team McCain Launches Ayers-Themed ‘Robocall’ Campaign

Staff / Truthdig Oct 17, 2008 During Wednesday night's debate, Barack Obama told John McCain that the McCain campaign's intense focus on Obama's ties to former Weatherman Bill Ayers "says more about your campaign than it does about me." Updated Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )