Jovita Idar, Emma Tenayuca, and Cecilia Rodriguez’s collective-action strategies and activism offer important lessons for today's nonprofit and social movements working to combat authoritarianism, discrimination, violence, and economic inequality.
Jovita Idar, Emma Tenayuca, and Cecilia Rodriguez’s collective-action strategies and activism offer important lessons for today's nonprofit and social movements working to combat authoritarianism, discrimination, violence, and economic inequality.
Juneteenth is about freedom, and the tax system should be built to enact that freedom materially by rewarding care, housing, labor, and public goods, not just wealth. Our taxes should finance a care infrastructure that is reparative of past and present inequalities.
For generations, we have treated racism as though it exists in opposition to the project of American democracy rather than within it. Yet the persistence of racial inequality reveals that American democracy has historically relied upon it to hold the majority white nation together.
As the United States marks 250 years of its founding promises, the Colored Farmers' National Alliance and Cooperative Union deserves to be part of that reckoning as evidence of what becomes possible when people decide to build cooperative power from the ground up.
We unite to oppose the racist hate and violence of the far right. I urge people to come to the Together Against Hate march, starting at the GPO at 2pm to stand in solidarity with those affected by racism and to face down the far right.
"Today, Belfast spoke with one voice. This was the biggest anti-racist demonstration this city has ever seen, and everyone who turned out should be proud. We reclaimed our city from the fascist thugs who tried to take it from us. The people have answered terror with solidarity..." - Gerry Caroll
"Whether the division is sectarian or racist, it turns working-class people against one another while poverty, lack of housing and inequality remain untouched. The answer is not one community against another, but ordinary people organising together for the homes and services we all need."
On behalf of People Before Profit, we urge the trade union movement who represents hundreds of thousands of workers here to use all the power at its disposal to thwart the racist thugs who wish to divide us.
"The speed with which the British far-right has descended... with Nigel Farage, jumping in to use it for their own divisive, nasty ends. These people don’t give a damn about working class people in Belfast. We shouldn’t let them exploit people’s real concern."
"This is the direct the result of weeks of poison pumped online - cowards warning of an 'influx of people' and sneering at 'foreign food.' That bile has now ended in arson... Racism puts food on nobody's table."
Confronting the Trump administration’s expanded counterterrorism policy will require movements to take a long-term approach rooted in building political alignment and scaling infrastructure.
It can be impossible to recite anything—let alone your rights—in the face of authority, chaos, and violence. What we need to do now is plan for action, plan for how we will act and connect with our communities amid fear, confusion, and the breaching of normalcy and of our rights.
Supports Congolese community’s call for an independent inquiry
How appropriate she has black-tinted glasses rather than pink- or rose-tinted ones. 1,737 words Proust had his madeleine. I had my blancmange. Browsing online lately, I came across an infant joke-collection I had once owned as a child. Called The Pink and Wobbly Joke-Book, and sporting a cartoon image of a large strawberry blancmange with […]
“On polling day I have no doubt voters will again keep Dublin Central a Fianna Fáil-free zone and Bertie Ahern can go crawl back under the rock he came from.”
US philanthropy is based on being WEIRD: Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic. Lessons from the philanthropic practices of Global Majority and Indigenous populations are crucial for tackling some of philanthropy’s—and the world’s—most pressing issues.
"We stand over our support for the proposal to remove the name Herzog Park from this public space in Dublin."
Back the basic demands. Defend the right to protest. Oppose the frauds on the far-right and discuss the protest leaders, but let's keep coming back to the real issue of unbearable price increases and where they come from. Workers, unions- let's deepen the movement for a country we can all live in.
Denman Rooke kicks off his campaign as People Before Profit's representative in Galway West on Monday.
Coleraine was a defeat for the ONIV's 'bizarre' would-be campaigners this weekend. Less than 1 in 10 of their projected numbers actually turned out and they were outnumbered by a vibrant counter-protest organised by Causeway Trade Union Council union members and members of People Before Profit.
Together — 500,000 people marched through central London on Saturday to protest the far right and racism, followed by a packed House Against Hate rave taking place in Trafalgar Square.
People Before Profit’s Online Safety (Recommender Algorithms) Bill to be debated and voted on in the Dáil on Wednesday. People Before Profit oppose age verification and social media ban for under-16s.
3,676 words Duncan Smith The Surprising Liberation Sydney: Alfadex Books, 2025 Who ultimately runs the world? That depends on who you ask. But one thing is clear; someone does. Even if we can’t look into the inner chambers of power and see who is working the levers, we can at least agree that there is […]
Warm shoulder — Cycling around London with his cat on his shoulder, balaclava-donning youth worker Mac is challenging society’s perceptions of people who look and dress like him. Molly Lipson chats to him about trauma, fatherhood and using his platform as a feline influencer for good.