We’re watching racists and xenophobes march in record numbers. We’re watching our planet get sold out for corporate gain. We’re watching our rights disappear. We tell ourselves the solution is to #votethemout, vote with our dollar, “make our voices heard” on social media or in the streets, and punch Nazis. But should we be [...]
This past month, subMedia released a short documentary on Vieques, Puerto Rico and the ongoing struggle against the imperial and neoliberal forces that dominate it. Also, a member of One Struggle shares her experience from co-producing the documentary below: […]
On Monday, October 9, 2017, the FIU chapter of Turning Point USA (TPUSA) hosted the organization’s founder, Charlie Kirk. Turning Point USA is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization founded on June 5, 2012 with a mission to identify, educate, train, and organize students to promote the principles of freedom, free markets, and limited government. According to [...]
** UPDATE, 12.21.15: Since posting this announcement, we were able to interview a spokesperson for Batay Ouvriye who participated in the days’ events with garment workers from Port au Prince and representatives of the Union de Trabajadores Cañeros from the DR. Audio to come… In the meantime, here’s a video of one of the demonstrations [...]
We’re re-posting this 2014 OS piece on elections. It’s dated, so it doesn’t address the current election cycle/ring & circus, but is still relevant as it focuses on the re-cycled general arguments, used over and over, to validate bourgeois elections. A “corrupted” system? There’s a misconception by Americans that the problem with elected representatives today [...]
By Jorge Quintana Wednesday, November 14th – climate activists and organizers marched in cities around the country, demanding ‘real’ action on climate change under the banner of “The People’s Climate March.” These marches were primarily organized by big environmental NGOs like 350.org and the Sierra Club. In Miami, a rally and march was held in [...]
The following is an excerpt from a document written by a veteran of several paid organizing campaigns. He's worked for SIEU (he did not work on the Fight for 15 campaign, but several of his friends did) as well as a living wage campaign. "I got into it because it was what I was good [...]