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No to Hate!

Rallying Against Global Trumpism in Berlin, Germany

February 6, 2017 • by Sabine Hark

On January 20, 2017, a practicing representative of rape culture took his place in the White House. With him came racism and sexism; came hatred for women*, lesbians and gays, trans*, inter*, and queers; came marginalization and debasement, insult and contempt. This can revive the age of men who beat and ...

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Turkey’s State of Emergency

An Open Letter

February 4, 2017 • by Zeynep Gambetti

We are going through very, very hard times all over the world. The rate of catastrophe is perhaps higher in Turkey, due to the State of Emergency that accelerates the already present state of exception. This past year in Turkey, it dawned on me that I was witnessing what Hannah ...

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A Citizen’s Appeal to Barack Obama

Defending our democracy from authoritarianism

February 2, 2017 • by Jeffrey C. Isaac

This can't wait. Every day brings us one day closer to authoritarianism, to war, to disaster. Unless you have closed your eyes and ears, you can see and hear this. You know this. What canon of "civility" and "respect for the constitutional transfer of authority" can require you now, as a ...

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If They Take You in the Morning, They Will be Coming for us That Night

Protesting Trump’s Executive Order

February 1, 2017 • by Josh Guild

If we know, then we must fight for your life as though it were our own -- which it is -- and render impassable with our bodies the corridor to the gas chamber. For, if they take you in the morning, they will be coming for us that night. I have ...

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Say It Loud:

Iowa Rallies for Refugees

February 1, 2017 • by Lauren Louise Anderson

Then a car drove past and something shot out of the window: my artist mind took a snapshot. After I went home I felt the need to turn the snapshot into a drawing. Part of the words from the car are obscured because I felt more than heard the first ...

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Love, Solidarity & the #MuslimBan

In Providence, Rhode Island

January 30, 2017 • by Michael D. Kennedy

Some 2,000 people from Providence, Rhode Island and environs assembled in the same place the #WomensMarch had gathered 8 days prior, this time to denounce Donald Trump’s Executive Order on immigration, effectively known in this community, and across the US and the world, as the #MuslimBan. The assembly reflected so ...

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The Political Psychology of the President

Freud Not Orwell on Trump and his Lying

January 30, 2017 • by Sanford Schram

Throughout it all, Trump has acted in his grand style as the head of his yet-to-be-relinquished business where he did not report to any board of directors. Alternatively, he followed suit as that celebrity television personality who played himself as that sole decision-maker of his private business. He has been ...

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Size Matters

The Political Implications of Crowding Out the Facts with Trump’s Alternative Universe

January 27, 2017 • by Sanford Schram

At the end of his first full day as President, Trump dispatched his press secretary Sean Spicer to make a statement in the White House press room claiming that the press was being dishonest, even manipulating photos, in order to deny Trump’s claims that the day before on the Washington ...

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Today There Was Joy

Marching in Center City, Philadelphia

January 27, 2017 • by Abby Schrader

What a contrast today’s mood was to yesterday’s. Yesterday, I dusted off my “I am With Her” button and wore it proudly, but the atmosphere was one of mourning. Today there was joy: women and men, young and old, white and black and brown and all of the above, queer ...

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Rise Up

Chicago Says No to Trump

January 27, 2017 • by Karen Graubart

By 11am, organizers announced what was already clear: the protestors were “flooding” the route, paralyzing the march itself. They cancelled the formal march, but the crowd in Grant Park slowly inched back to Michigan Avenue, now emptied of cars and filled with celebrants. We lined the massive boulevard and stood ...