Rise Up Times Summary, October 16, 2022
"Power is global and politics is local. That must change. We need a new language for understanding new global power formations as well as new international modes of politics to fight them." Henry Giroux
Chris Hedges Speaks on ‘American Sadism’
"What is taking place is not neglect. It is not ineptitude. It is not policy failure. It is social murder. It is murder because it is premeditated. It is murder because a conscious choice was made by the global ruling classes to extinguish life rather than protect it. It is murder because profit, despite the hard statistics, the growing climate disruptions, and the scientific modeling, is deemed more important than human survival."
8M: Latin American women prepare for record feminist marches
"The streets will be painted green and purple, and the shouts of “Latin America will be all feminist!” will be echoed in the main capitals of the region."
How can allies protect communities threatened with violence? by George Lakey
Violence is a hatchet when a surgeon’s knife is needed.
Why Fight? African Feminists Emphasize Key to Global Peace
Peace is quintessentially a woman’s issue, most clearly when the continuum of male violence against women in its private, social and structural dimensions is grasped.
Women’s March DC Videos: Nina Turner and the March in DC and Elsewhere
The consensus in the comments was Nina Turner for president, or at least a Bernie/Turner ticket. In the Real News video that follows commentator Taya Graham noted that the mainstream corporate media focused on dissent instead of the issues. A major theme of the march was Unity, as Nina Turner emphasizes.
Kavanaugh Hearings: Toxic Masculinity is Endemic to the Far Right, Henry Giroux
An interview of Henry Giroux on the Kavanaugh Hearings: Government run amuck and the ramifications beyond the hearings
A Foreign Policy That Can Change Everything for Everyone
War is the weaponization of discrimination, classism and misogyny. So why are so few women talking about it?
The Fempire Strikes Back | #MeToo by Ann Jones
Time magazine passed over the president as its “person of the year” to name instead the “Silence Breakers” -- the brave, outspoken women who inspired the #MeToo campaign.
The Fempire Strikes Back | #MeToo by Ann Jones
Time magazine passed over the president as its “person of the year” to name instead the “Silence Breakers” -- the brave, outspoken women who inspired the #MeToo campaign.
The Nation's 2017 Progressive Honor Roll
“The moral arc of the universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” Here are some of the progressives who bent the arc in 2017.
The Nation’s 2017 Progressive Honor Roll
“The moral arc of the universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” Here are some of the progressives who bent the arc in 2017.