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South Koreans helped stop a coup through mass, rapid nonviolent resistance.
Paul Rogat Loeb and Jungmin Choi draw lessons for confronting Trump: elections matter, but so does organizing to prevent power grabs.
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Who gets protected—and who gets policed?
Lisa Armstrong examines Memphis’s militarized task force, fatal shootings, and dropped charges. Residents are organizing against a system that expands enforcement while leaving families seeking answers.
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Why frame France’s youth revolt as “violence” while ignoring the inequality and failing public services fueling it?
Diane De Vignemont shows how solidarity challenges a system that divides grievances to preserve power.
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Who profits when workers pay more for unsafe homes?
Dominick Conidi exposes a system that puts landlords’ returns before tenants’ needs. Rent strikes challenge who holds power over housing.
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Who controls what voters see?
Brazilian watchdogs allege Meta’s tools favor Bolsonaro and frame Lula negatively. Opaque algorithms can shape political reality without public scrutiny.
Democracy can’t depend on corporate systems no one can inspect.
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Who gets called “illegal” on land held under U.S. colonial rule?
Emily Mitchell-Eaton connects ICE raids in Puerto Rico to racialized policing and colonial control—and shows how grassroots sanctuary challenges the state’s power to decide who belongs.
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When African users generate the data but Big Tech captures the value, is this digital progress—or colonial extraction in a new form?
Caleb Oppong and Samuel Ayisi Nuamah examine how foreign control of digital infrastructure threatens Africa’s sovereignty.
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Walmart’s anti-union power isn’t invincible.
Benjamin Y. Fong shows how 800 Canadian warehouse workers used collective organization, strategic union support, and labor-law leverage to win a contract.
What can workers elsewhere learn from their fight?
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For Palestinians, grief cannot heal while the violence continues.
M. Reza Behnam writes on generations of loss, the struggle against erasure, and sumud—steadfastness in the fight for dignity and freedom.
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Workers pay taxes on wages. Billionaires can borrow against untaxed wealth.
Nancy Folbre makes the case for taxing the rich to fund public services, confront inequality, and help protect a livable planet.
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Mohammed Altaj’s second chance at life came through an Indian family’s organ donation—and a mother who never left his side.
His story moves from Palestinian imprisonment and illness to fatherhood, writing, and a commitment to human dignity.
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AI's future is a question of power, not just technology. Strong unions, shorter hours and public services are essential. But dismissing UBI as a billionaire's fix misses its potential to give workers the security to say no. UBI + UBS + unions. 🧵
Who benefits from the AI boom—and who pays?
Ashley Smith interviews tech workers on profit, job insecurity, surveillance, and AI warfare—and why workers need power over how this technology is used.
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ZNet retweeted
The answer to AI isn't UBI instead of unions, or unions instead of UBI. Workers need both: collective power to shape technology and individual income security to resist exploitation. Add universal services and shorter hours. Share the gains, not just the risks.
Who benefits from the AI boom—and who pays?
Ashley Smith interviews tech workers on profit, job insecurity, surveillance, and AI warfare—and why workers need power over how this technology is used.
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Protest can win concessions.
Revolution requires more: lasting organization, broader demands, and a vision of what comes next.
Michael Albert asks whether today’s global uprisings can go beyond resistance to transform society.
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“Self-defense” for Israel. “Terrorism” for Palestinians.
The words aren’t neutral when they’re applied by a double standard.
Norman Solomon decodes the rhetoric used to discredit Israel’s critics and obscure Palestinian rights.
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Who benefits from the AI boom—and who pays?
Ashley Smith interviews tech workers on profit, job insecurity, surveillance, and AI warfare—and why workers need power over how this technology is used.
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Who gets to claim democracy’s legacy?
Dimitris Eleas challenges Rubio’s use of ancient Greece to legitimize U.S. power. Democracy wasn’t handed down by elites—it was won through popular struggle.
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Long, terrifying piece from Arundhati Roy.
"Perhaps our unused brains will atrophy, our heads will shrink and our fingers will turn into undulating prompt tentacles."
What if the AI debate is asking the wrong question?
Arundhati Roy asks who profits when capitalism turns human knowledge, labor, and nature into private assets—and who pays the price.
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What if the AI debate is asking the wrong question?
Arundhati Roy asks who profits when capitalism turns human knowledge, labor, and nature into private assets—and who pays the price.
znetwork.org/znetarticle/apo…