What Happens to the Bernie Sanders Movement If He Loses?
You may have heard the story of the woman who was walking her dog one night and found a…
The Indypendent
George Lakey
All of us hold an idea about how progressive change might happen, whether or not we spell it out…
Lessons From the LGBT Equality Movement
As the U.S. Supreme Court wrestles with the question of whether to grant marriage equality, many people have been…
I Pledge Allegiance, To Resist the Pipeline
One of the hardest things in the world is, if I may borrow a biblical phrase, to read the…
The mistake people in all sorts of situations make is to invite only their friends to a party, and…
Coming Out As a Working Class Man
I came out as someone brought up working class in a statewide Freeze convention in the early 1980s. As…
Riddles of Working Class Politics
“Why do working class people vote against their own interests?” I’ve heard that question dozens of times from middle…
Do we Mean what the Politicians Mean by “Class?”
For most of my life, mainstream U.S. politicians have carefully avoided the term social class. It is inconvenient. If…
Opening Ourselves to the Realities of Class
How can a small group make a difference with genocide-level violence happening half a world away? When some of…
Usually, direct action training is what it sounds like: training in preparation for a direct action. Sometimes, however, the…