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Fighting for Bodily Autonomy Is a Texas Tradition

As the state shuts down services for abortion and transgender kids, grassroots activists call on their history to fight back

June 27, 2022 • by Lauren Gutterman

All historical moments may be unique, but our current struggle is not new, and Texans are not unprepared. Recognizing the enduring nature of these battles, and acknowledging that activists fighting for our rights in Texas today are part of an ongoing struggle, has provided me with some strength and comfort ...

Fighting for Bodily Autonomy Is a Texas Tradition

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Continuous Protest outside the Supreme Court

A photo essay

June 27, 2022 • by Jo Freeman

Thousands of people congregated outside the Supreme Court on June 24, shortly after the Court announced that it was overturning Roe v. Wade. That 1973 decision had held that states could not regulate women’s right to an abortion prior to the viability of the fetus. People came and went throughout the ...

Continuous Protest outside the Supreme Court

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Poor People’s Campaign Rallies on Capitol Hill

A photo essay

June 21, 2022 • by Jo Freeman

Demographically, there were more oldsters than youngsters. Children were few and far between. They were about evenly split between Black and white, with a heavy sprinkling of Hispanics. ...

Poor People’s Campaign Rallies on Capitol Hill

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March for Our Lives Rallies on DC Mall

A photo essay

June 13, 2022 • by Jo Freeman

Twenty thousand people rallied on the DC Mall on June 12 to denounce gun violence. Organized by March for Our Lives, there were major rallies all over the country, in contrast to one very large national rally by this group in 2018. DC Mayor Muriel Bowser was one of many speakers in ...

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Black Women Take Action for Voting Rights and Reproductive Justice

A photo essay

May 29, 2022 • by Jo Freeman

Black Women Take Action took to the streets in front of the Supreme Court on May 25, 2022. Its primary focus is on Voting Rights. BWTA wants Congress to pass H.R. 1, which would expand voting rights and change campaign finance laws. The House passed the bill. The Senate blocked ...

Black Women Take Action for Voting Rights and Reproductive Justice

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Breaking Through for LGBTQI Rights

Movements fighting homophobia and transphobia in Venezuela offer an example of organizing that successfully joins forces across ideological and partisan lines

May 16, 2022 • by Daniel Fermín, Richelle Briceño and Yendri Velásquez

We have to understand that the ones who are in these spaces are the ones who can create change, be it positive or negative....

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Bans Off Our Bodies All Over the Country

The March in DC was one of the Largest

May 16, 2022 • by Jo Freeman

Roughly 20,000 people rallied and marched in Washington, D.C. for abortion rights. It was one of five hundred rallies of varying sizes around the country. Covid has discouraged travel, so people protest at home, which makes numbers harder to add up. Before the march, there was a rally on the ...

Bans Off Our Bodies All Over the Country

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Young Women Rally for Abortion outside Supreme Court

A photo essay

May 9, 2022 • by Jo Freeman

Roughly a hundred young women gathered outside the Supreme Court on May 6 to rally for abortion rights. This was one of several pro-choice demonstrations during the first week of May. In abortion demonstrations last fall, young women were mostly on the pro-life side. Those on the pro-choice side were ...

Young Women Rally for Abortion outside Supreme Court

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Water Belongs to the People, Not Corporations

Protecting our water is a sacred commitment to all life on earth

April 19, 2022 • by Simona Perry

Is water sacred? In the Roman Catholic tradition, it is through a rite of minor-exorcism: prayers that both breaks the influence of evil and sin in a person's life and sanctifies water as “holy.” In this ancient rite, a priest blesses the living “creature of water” to cast out devils, put sickness to flight, ...

Water Belongs to the People, Not Corporations

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Why Activists Matter to Constitutional Change

Beyond textual loopholes: the case of the Thirteenth Amendment

February 2, 2022 • by Sam Klug

n the immediate aftermath of the Thirteenth Amendment’s passage, African American activists, Reconstruction legislators, and the formerly enslaved initially hoped it would be broadly applied. ...

Why Activists Matter to Constitutional Change

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The Power of Black Feminist Pragmatism

Why the Black Lives Matter movement is the best alternative to the anti-democratic, white supremacist, authoritarian capture of the United States

January 20, 2022 • by Deva Woodly

The Black Lives Matter movement is not a “new social movement” that focuses on cultural transformation while eschewing policy intervention, nor is it fashioned after “old style,” “traditional” social movements that attempt to move policy while deemphasizing the need for deep changes in public understandings of the problems facing polities ...

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On Coming to Terms

What form should a “post #BlackLivesMatter” movement take?

January 19, 2022 • by Christopher Paul Harris

BlackLivesMatter” world, it won’t be one where the current constellation of movement organizations simply disappear or become ineffective in their attempts to bring Black people closer to liberation....