Resist!
Stories from the front lines
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What Does Jeff Bezos have to Offer Health Care?
A new team of billionaires, led by a prominent surgeon and storyteller, has plans for our health care system. more
Jul 8, 2018
About RESIST!
People are standing up for democracy every day, in living rooms, meeting rooms, courthouses, and in the streets. Here's where we share images, stories and what you can do.
Brian Alberth
The Tyranny of Politeness
The proper time and place to protest, they say, is always the time and place where they feel they can most easily ignore us. When we show up at their churches, homes, and country clubs, we are no longer constrained by their rigged rules. more
Jul 1, 2018
Takvr
The Janus Decision Is Wrong, But Teachers Know How to Organize Around It
Union supporters say Janus is a big blow, but for many educators like me, it will be nothing new. The question is, what are the practical effects? more
Jun 27, 2018
Law enforcement photo / The Intercept
A Dakota Access Pipeline Water Protector Is Sentenced to Prison in North Dakota
Michael “Little Feather” Giron is the first person to face serious prison time for his role in the struggle against the Dakota Access Pipeline. more
Jun 6, 2018
Frances Madeson
Poor People’s Campaign Takes Root in Pennsylvania
Jill Bartoli of Carlisle was handcuffed and carted off through the hallways of the Pennsylvania state capitol. “I’m seventy-three years old,” she said of her arrest. “It’s time.” more
May 29, 2018
David Helvarg
Marching for the Ocean to Save What We Can
We want to shift the burden of single-use plastics from the consumer to the perpetrators of a throwaway culture. #The Ocean is Rising #And So Are We. more
May 29, 2018
Rick Christofferson
Oh, the Humanities! Wisconsinites Fight Efforts to Kill Off University Majors
Just how far can the politics of resentment go in dismantling public education? more
May 18, 2018
Joeff Davis
Five Questions For: Counter-Protesters Arrested at a Neo-Nazi Rally
“Unfortunately, it’s not at all unexpected that police side with white supremacists.” more
May 15, 2018
Celebrating International Women’s Day—From Our Archives
The All-Nite Images / Otto Yamamoto
Erica Garner: A Life and Loss that Demands an Inclusive Progressive Agenda
Erica’s death occurs in the midst of a growing maternal mortality crisis that hits mothers of color particularly hard. The drivers of the crisis are complex—but we know what they are—and we can do something. more
Jan 12, 2018
Kheel Center
More than a Hundred Young Women Went to Work One Day, and Never Came Home. Their Story Changed the Country Forever.
The anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire marks the deadliest workplace disaster in New York City up until September 11, 2001. more
Mar 23, 2017
Evil Erin
Feminism for the 99 Percent
An organizer of the international women’s strike set for March 8, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor talks about a feminist politics that focuses on women’s labor, and how to wake up the world to the power of women’s work—by doing nothing. more
Mar 1, 2017
Mary Duschene
Pink Versus Red: Women March on an Edgy Washington
Welcome to clearly divided America. It’s pink versus red. Us versus them. The good news is: There seem to be a lot more of us. more
Jan 22, 2017
Viva Graffiti: Women in Mexico Are Protesting Violence—Creatively
A gallery of images from a surge of creative protest on the walls of San Cristobal. more
Nov 28, 2016
Trans Women: Live and in Color
What does a feminist and human rights agenda for trans women look like? The answer will reveal whether we are feminists in name only, or truly committed to the liberation of all women. more
Mar 7, 2015
Caitlin Kuhwald
Why Feminism Should Focus Less on Culture
These days, feminism is everywhere, but there’s a fundamental issue that gets a lot less attention than it deserves. more
Mar 7, 2015
Wisdom From the Kitchen Table
I come from a long line of strong women. Women who left home and made a new life in a foreign land. These women’s blood flows in mine. I know their stories because they were revealed to me at the kitchen table. more
Mar 9, 2015
Roxanna Bikadoroff
Awesome Women in Sports
My own experience as an athlete has been so rewarding, and so central to who I am now, that it pains me to think of all the girls in school who might never discover the pride and confidence that come from challenging themselves in a sport. more
May 1, 1993
Carl T. Thorner
Women's Wages in Government
The fight for equal pay has been a long battle. Mary Anderson, chief of the Women's Bureau at the Department of Labor in 1926, had this to say. more
Apr 20, 1926
May the Women of the United States Vote In 1920?
A look back at the path to women's suffrage more
Feb 1, 1920
If Things Were Reversed
What would be the state of the masculine mind if the voting women should present to them only the following half dozen objections which are unhappily so familiar to many of us? more
Apr 6, 1912
My Baby Girl
I had above all else a new sense of a sacredness of life. All that day and the next, however, I was compelled to draw on my resources of patience and humor. more
Feb 10, 1912
