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No Kings Day, more than 3,000 events across the United States

The third No Kings action day in the United States (following those in June and October 2025) involved over 3,000 locations, from large cities to small rural towns, and nearly 300 organizations. Photo by U.S. Democratic Socialists Opposition to Trump…

Chicago, a Snowplow named Abolish ICE

We take from The Other 98% Facebook page an example of creative resistance to ICE violence. Chicago trolls Trump by naming a city snowplow “Abolish ICE” in the middle of a federal immigration crackdown. Chicago’s annual You Name a Snowplow…

ICE leaves Minnesota but opens offices in other states

On Thursday, February 12, during a press conference, Tom Homan, the Trump administration’s so-called “border czar,” announced the conclusion of Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota after three months of fierce military occupation, which led to over 4,000 arrests, the murders…

Protest banners on California freeways

Several years ago, I read an interesting article about a place where urban planning had favored the periphery over the center; this concept gave rise to modern network cities, a system of nodes where each becomes a center. The idea…

Venezuela and the United States, ‘Enough is enough!’

In less than twelve hours after the kidnapping of Venezuelan Head of State Nicolas Maduro by the Trump-led American government, over a hundred cities across the United States mobilised; on Sunday 4 January, another forty joined the protests. I have…

Gaza: Hope Walks on Our Own Legs

UN Security Council Resolution 2803 represents a victory for American diplomacy, enforcing the law of the jungle. On November 17, 2025, in New York, Russia and China abstained, despite holding the power to block the resolution with their veto—a privilege…

Young protesters force Nepalese prime minister to resign

Nepalese Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli was forced to resign on Tuesday [September 9, 2025] after young protesters defied the curfew and clashed with police. The youth were protesting corruption and the fact that 19 people died on the…

Yona Roseman, 19-year-old: “Israel is committing genocide, and we must resist”

This coming Sunday, August 17, at 10:00 a.m., at the Haifa enlistment camp, Yona Roseman, a 19-year-old from Haifa, will refuse to enlist in protest against the genocide in Gaza, and will probably be tried and sent to prison. Activists…

Yurii Sheliazenko: “The protests are good, but there are still some Ukrainians who believe in the war.”

In Kiev, I met Yurii Sheliazenko, a Quaker conscientious objector and leader of the Ukrainian Pacifist Movement, whom I had met and interviewed during my trip to Ukraine last August, and his friend Artem Denysov, also a Quaker. They took…

Nonviolence is as American as Apple Pie

“The real American tradition isn’t war—it’s the people’s resistance to it.” On June 16, Rolling Stone reported on the recent “No Kings” demonstrations that revealed something profound about American values. In the article they noted that Saturday’s protests drew millions…

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