After more than two weeks of protests by truckers and others in Ottawa, Canada (the capital city), as well as in other parts of the country, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau declared a national public order emergency on Feb. 14 to put an end to the protest. This allows...
Across the country, Democrats, Republicans and the media are all hurrying to declare that the pandemic is ending, and that it’s time to return to normal. They’ve decided that it is time to take all the masks off, get the profits flowing again, and accept that...
The Kaepernick Effect: How Taking a Knee Sparked a Movement Online Townhall with Dave Zirin In 2016, amid an epidemic of police shootings of Black people, NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick began a series of protests on the field, refusing to stand during the U.S....
The Oakland School Board’s proposal to shut down or merge 16 schools in Oakland over the next two years was met with a quick and angry mobilization by the Oakland community. The schools threatened are disproportionately in the “flat lands” of Oakland that serve poor...
This article was written by Jules Boycoff and originally published at jacobinmag.com on February 4, 2022. It has been republished here with permission from the author. On the cusp of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, activists are ramping up their opposition to the...
