Resistance Strategies

We would do well to remember that our good news first came as an act of divine protest in the body of a poor, brown baby born in a barn.

The political Right currently runs the country. That’s very annoying, but pretending it isn’t true is foolhardy.

The Right’s many groups organize on a wide variety of specific issues, from education, the environment, civil and human rights, immigration, and criminal justice to developing new constituencies such as fathers and conservative people of color.

We are not fleeing to Canada or retreating to a safe space. There is no safe space aside from the ones we build together, that protect us all.

No one organization “controls” the Right. No single funder is “behind” the Right. Some large organizations are important, but many others appear to be more influential than they really are. Recognize that there are multiple networks of organizations and funders with differing and sometimes competing agendas. Find out as much as you can about the groups you see.

Responding to Patriot Movement claims on militias and gun rights, rural economics, the Constitution, public lands, and conspiracy theories.

On September 15, hip-hop artist Jay Z and author and illustrator Molly Crabapple collaborated (along with dream hampton, Jim Batt, and Kim Boekbinder) on a short, animated video, “A History of the War on Drugs, from Prohibition to Gold Rush,” for The NYT.

A woman’s bare head in France is no more “neutral” than white skin in the U.S.

These activists have made headlines—and, in many cases, served prison sentences.

The moment I entered the Black Woman is God exhibit in San Francisco’s SOMArts gallery, I knew I was on sacred ground. I found myself treading gingerly, trying not to disturb the spirits of ancestors…