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Organizing & Resistance

Nurses at HCA's Mission Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina. Photo from the National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United.
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Asheville nurses reflect on the largest labor victory at a Southern nonunion hospital since 1975

by Zaina Alsous September 25, 2020November 16, 2022
Posted inARTS & SOUL

In conversation with People4USPS, crafting a creative blueprint for solidarity through the mail

by Zaina Alsous September 11, 2020November 21, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Q&A: Ajamu Dillahunt, long-time civil rights organizer and former USPS union president

by Jonathan Michels September 7, 2020October 1, 2020
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Black New Orleans City Waste workers build power against a crisis

by Mindy Isser June 17, 2020September 16, 2020
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

How COVID-19 has changed the game for Black community organizers

by Courtney Napier June 12, 2020September 16, 2020
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

When Black voters matter as much as Black votes

by Courtney Napier June 12, 2020September 16, 2020
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Young Black Missisippians join May Day protests for workers rights, COVID-19 protections

by Frances Madeson May 6, 2020November 14, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

COVID-19: Strategies for workers from organizers and experts

by Lovey Cooper March 31, 2020August 2, 2021
Posted inRACE & PLACE

In pandemic times, radical imagination matters more than ever.

by Lewis Raven Wallace March 30, 2020February 10, 2021
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE, SCALAWAG UPDATES

Neighbors helping neighbors: a list of coronavirus mutual aid efforts in the South

by Carly Berlin March 20, 2020October 1, 2020
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Social justice in a time of social distancing

by Kenneth Bailey & Lori Lobenstine March 13, 2020October 1, 2020
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Who was Oliver Harvey?

by Alicia Sun and Isabella Arbelaez February 24, 2020November 13, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

'Starve the Beast': No New Cops

by Zaina Alsous November 4, 2019July 5, 2021
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Video: In their own words, why Kentucky miners are blocking a coal train

by Shaylan Clark & Oakley Fugate August 12, 2019September 16, 2020
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

"We fight for what's right and we fix what's wrong": Voices from Kentucky's Poor People's Campaign

by Austyn Gaffney July 2, 2018September 16, 2020
Posted inARTS & SOUL

New Year's Revolution

by E Martinez June 20, 2018September 16, 2020
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Learning from the leadership of West Virginia's striking teachers

by R. Garringer March 7, 2018November 13, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

I pledge allegiance to the Always Not Yet

by Zaina Alsous February 8, 2018October 1, 2020
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

The Trillbilly Workers' Party

by Lia Russell January 23, 2018October 4, 2021
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

There's a Mass Movement for Freedom Growing in the South

by Elizabeth Wright, James Perry, Kelanii Jones and Hope Hart December 28, 2017September 16, 2020
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

The Lady and the land: Esther Calhoun leads The Black Belt Citizens in the fight against environmental racism in rural Alabama

by Salaam Green December 26, 2017September 16, 2020
Posted inARTS & SOUL

The Master's Tools

by Xandria Phillips November 29, 2017September 16, 2020

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