17 Lawmakers Arrested Outside Supreme Court Amid Abortion Rights Protest, by Nina Golgowski
“There is no democracy if women do not have control over their own bodies and decisions about their own health, including reproductive care.”
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz: Not “A Nation of Immigrants”
"Not 'A Nation of Immigrants'” charges that it’s time to stop perpetuating simplistic and ahistorical fantasies and embrace the true, complex and often sobering history of these United States.
Ilhan Omar is under attack, what do we do? Stand up, fight back!
"And it isn’t just Ilhan they are going after. For too long, AIPAC has had a stranglehold on American foreign policy."
Support the Philippine Human Rights Act
"On July 3, Philippine President Duterte signed the Anti-Terrorism Act—a law that Amnesty International has called “yet another setback for human rights.” The law appears to be a pretext to target perceived political opponents."
Ilhan, Antone and the Price of Inclusion, by Ricardo Levins Morales
"Inclusionists demand equal participation at all levels of the empire and its institutions while transformationists call for fundamental change."
Ilhan Omar Has a Plan to Revolutionize U.S. Foreign Policy
"They would also have to reckon with the humanitarian impact of sanctions, which Congress largely ignores at this point, and it has led to some of the world’s worst humanitarian crises as we’re seeing in Venezuela, and North Korea, and Iran."
DN!: “Our Very Existence Is the Resistance”: An Hour w/ AOC, Ayanna Pressley, Rashida Tlaib & Ilhan Omar
REP. ILHAN OMAR: I think, to the point that Rashida was talking about, about us not being divided, but disconnected, is truly how I think about the thing that is wrong with the formation of our foreign policy, is that when we engage in the creation of our foreign policy, we are truly disconnected from the foreign nations that it will impact and the humans who are going to be impacted by our foreign policy.
Trump Attacked the Women of Color Who Led the Push for Impeachment. Then CNN Erased Them
Taken together, the picture speaks to an even more grim dynamic: While Trump demonizes Congress’s progressive women of color, CNN erases their work.
To Defeat Fascism, We Must Dismantle Capitalism
“The Terror of the Unforeseen” A book by Henry A. Giroux
The Antiwar Movement No One Can See: Will It Put a Crimp in the War on Terror? By Allegra Harpootlian
What if there’s an antiwar movement growing right under our noses and we just haven’t noticed?
Is Trump a Fascist? On Deconstructed, The Intercept
Donald J. Trump: Nobody disobeys my orders.
Debate Over Labeling Omar Obscures Vital Debate on Israel/Palestine
Chait has a clear double standard for cultural sensitivity and respect: He requires a young Muslim woman to be conversant in and circumspect of even antiquated stereotypes about Jews, while his own remark makes use of the much more current stereotype of the sneaky, shady Arab or Muslim who is not to be trusted. By More