Minnesota voters face two regressive constitutional amendments this fall. One would prevent future legalization of same-sex marriage and one would suppress voter turnout with cumbersome ID requirements. They are part of a […]
The Marriage Amendment as decoy and how to fight the real danger
An open letter to the One Percent
Dear One Percenters, Hi there. I’m writing you from down here in the 99%. I’m sure you know what I’m talking about. Even though this is a young movement, I’ve been […]
Community art as medicinal practice
I am what’s known as a visual artist. At least that’s the story that’s told about me. I tell a different story about myself. In it I am a healer. What […]
Let’s Not Take America Back!
The Madison worker uprising shook up the US political landscape. State governments that were peacefully going about their business forcing workers and communities to pay for upper class gluttony are facing […]
Big Brother and the Holding Company
Turning repression into resistance The cold winds of political repression have begun to blow a little colder. The widening FBI probe of the anti-war and solidarity movements–launched with coordinated raids in […]
Float Like a Butterfly, Sting Like a Bee: a political ecology of change
Don’t fight the riptide. It’ll wear you down. A riptide occurs when water at high tide gets pooled behind reefs or sand bars so when the sea goes out again, the trapped […]
Revolution in the Time of the Hamsters
“I don’t think we’re in Kansas anymore, Toto,” Dorothy shared her suspicion with her little dog as they peered out onto an unfamiliar landscape. Still reeling from her own climate crisis, […]
The Drinking Gourd: Vision as Strategy
During the Underground Railroad movement of the mid-nineteenth century, people escaping the enslaved South were instructed to follow the Drinking Gourd, the constellation in the northern sky which points to the […]
Remembering Chairman Fred
Note: Every year at this time I like to re-post this memorial piece to Fred Hampton and Mark Clark. Stories get passed on through repetition. It was first published in the Minneapolis […]
The Lizard Strategy or, How to defeat Bush without losing our souls
“Now we get to go out and lie to our members once again,” a union staffer recently complained to me. She was referring to the 2004 presidential election, and her frustration […]
Ricardo Levins Morales