Rahm Emanuel Opposition Comes to DC

Take Action Now By Ryan Black Led by longtime Chicago political consultant and activist Delmarie Cobb, progressives spoke to the media on Monday in front of the Senate steps. They were there to make the case for why Rahm Emanuel must not be confirmed for a high profile ambassadorship to Japan. The news conference focused particularly on Emanuel’s role in covering up the murder of Laquan…

Rahm Emanuel’s 30-Year History of Being Wrong — and Why It Matters

By Ryan Black Rahm Emanuel, an avowed Third Way centrist, has been on the wrong side of the Democratic Party’s worst decisions for the past 30 years. Now, he has been nominated to be Joe Biden’s Ambassador to Japan — a country with constant military tension and pressure from the West to stand in opposition to China. Emanuel is uniquely unfit to handle the responsibilities of navigating these…

Why Pipelines Are Bad, Actually

By Ryan Black Despite a global climate emergency that worsens year after year, multinational corporations continue to invest in fossil fuels and build risky oil pipelines across the country — all for private profit and at the expense of vulnerable communities and tribal lands. Right now, as with Keystone XL and DAPL before, resisters of the Line 3 pipeline in Minnesota are facing the brutal…

Indigenous Line 3 Activists Link Militarism and Climate Crisis

By Olivia DiNucci and Ryan Black In what’s known as northern Minnesota, environmental activists, under Indigenous leadership, are taking action to stop the Line 3 pipeline. But the protests aren’t exclusively about pipelines and tar sands; Line 3 resistors also focus on the link between militarism and the climate crisis. Line 3 is a tar sands pipeline -- currently under construction --…

‘The World Is At Stake’: Defuse Nuclear War Kicks Off Nationwide Week Of Action

Take Action Now "The need for action to curtail the possibility of nuclear conflict could not be more urgent," said the campaign's organizer. By Brett Wilkins, Common Dreams Activists from the Defuse Nuclear War coalition on Sunday launched a week of action to demand the U.S. government take steps to reduce the existential threat of thermonuclear annihilation, including by reinstating arms…

Nina Turner and Cori Bush Reveal Democrats’ Compromised Dynamic

By Sam Rosenthal & Ryan Black, Progressive Hub It was a night of contrasts. While in Ohio’s 11th Congressional District, Nina Turner was conceding to Shontel Brown — whose campaign was propped up by millions of dollars from Republican donors and pro-Israel PACs, first term representative Cori Bush succeeded in saving millions of families from being thrown out onto the streets. On August…

Cop City Taps Atlanta’s Long, Anti-Working Class History

Take Action Now The Stop Cop City movement recalls Atlanta’s 1996 Olympic bid and the city’s long history of prioritizing tourists, business interests, and wealthy white communities over Black and working-class people. by Micah Herskind, Prism On Jan. 18, 2023, a squad of local and state police officers marched into the Weelaunee Forest in southeast Atlanta, where they shot and…

Vigils For Tortuguita: Land Defenders Erupt In Solidarity

Take Action Now Land defenders and justice movements everywhere will not be terrorized into silence. They will not let the story of their sibling's murder be controlled by their killers, nor by the powers who hide behind the killers By Alexandria Shaner, Z Network On the evening of January 21, a couple dozen people came out in the rain and grouped together in a circle outside of Whatcom…

These Midterm Races Could Be Pivotal For U.S. Climate Action

Take Action Now Climate change is on the ballot this week. Here are six races we’re watching. By Zoya Teirstein, Grist The United States midterm elections will take place on Tuesday. Polls, those imperfect barometers of public opinion, show Democrats and Republicans in a dead heat for control of the Senate. Republicans need to pick up just five seats to take back majority power in the House…