Resist!
Stories from the front lines
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Wesley Fryer
From Oklahoma Teachers, Lessons for Progressives
Teachers are challenging a decades-long nationwide conservative campaign to shrink government. more
Apr 18, 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.
Peter Tkac
Uproar Over a Journalist’s Murder Brings Down Slovakia’s Prime Minister
The shooting of journalist Ján Kuciak sparked massive protests. more
Mar 27, 2018
Rick Reinhard
Across the Country, Students Led the Way to Say ‘Enough is Enough’
A remarkable groundswell against the status quo on guns in America. more
Mar 25, 2018
YouTube
Ady Barkan is Fed Up and Fired Up
Ady Barkan became a household name for speaking out during the fight for the Affordable Care Act and then against the GOP tax cut bill, which threatens healthcare programs. He's got a lot more things to say. more
Mar 14, 2018
Alexandra Tempus
#NationalSchoolWalkout in the Heartland
High schoolers in Madison join tens of thousands across the nation in a massive show of unity, walking out of class together to protest gun violence and advocate for gun control. more
Mar 13, 2018
Movimiento Cosecha
DREAMers Walk to Stay Home
Sarah Jaffe speaks with Maria Duarte and Omar Cisneros from the Seed Project of Movimiento Cosecha fighting for their right to stay in America and to preserve DACA. more
Mar 7, 2018
Fabrice Florin
To All the Young Folks Fighting the Gun Lobby: Follow the Money
Young people in Florida and elsewhere—articulate and thoughtful, media savvy and politically astute—are taking action against policies that are killing them in the classroom. They have a wealth of data to back them up. more
Feb 22, 2018
Darwinek
Honduran Activists Need Our Support
The Honduran government has brought at least 179 criminal cases against activists for simply protesting what they believe to be electoral fraud. The people of Honduras desperately need support to defend their democracy. more
Feb 19, 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
