The pre-existing crisis of legitimacy for the rulers is compounded by the government’s inept response to the pandemic.
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Racial & Gender Justice
Working to combat economic inequality, achieve climate justice, and build peace requires solutions designed to dismantle systemic racism and patriarchy. That’s why all of our projects seek to intersect and achieve justice across gender, diversity, and race, in addition to class.
Latest Work
Cruel Immigration Policies Make the Pandemic Worse
Warehousing people in unsanitary conditions and then deporting them to poor countries is a recipe for contagion.
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International Solidarity in a Time of Crisis
“I think this moment global pandemic is showing us very clearly that all human life is interrelated, which means that none of us is safe until all of us are safe.”
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Anti-Defamation League Report on White Supremacy Ignores Trump’s Role in Racism
A new ADL report highlights a 120% increase in white supremacist incidents over the last year, but ignores the roots of this rise and doesn’t tackle racism.
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Will 2020 Be Another Victory Year for Trump and Brexit?
Donald Trump and Boris Johnson claim victories in early 2020, but Brexit and impeachment may come back to haunt them and the far right later in the year.
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How Cruelty at the Mexican Border Became an American Export
The southward expansion of US border enforcement has been happening for years. Now we’re exporting Trump-era cruelty too.
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Learning From King’s Last Campaign
Before he died, Martin Luther King, Jr. joined a campaign to unify working people of all races. Today, nothing could be more powerful.
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Support Native Businesses This Holiday Season
Native American products enrich many corporations — but often not Natives themselves. We can change that.
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Trump’s Judaism Order Has Nothing to Do with Fighting Anti-Semitism
The man who called neo-Nazis “very fine people” has no business defining anti-Semitism for the rest of us.
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The Real Shadow Policy of the Trump Administration Is Racist Extremism
Throughout Trump’s presidency, his racist actions and rhetoric have harmed millions. But they threaten even more insidious shifts in the future.
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Reports
White Supremacy is the Preexisting Condition: Eight Solutions to Ensure Economic Recovery Reduces the Racial Wealth Divide
Eight Solutions to Ensure Economic Recovery Reduces the Racial Wealth Divide.
Black Immigrant Domestic Workers in the Time of COVID-19
Black immigrant domestic workers are at the epicenter of three converging storms—the pandemic, the resulting economic depression, and structural racism.
Report: The Battle For Another World
The Progressive Response to the New Right
