In the 2024 US general elections, Trump was elected to serve another term as president. Perceiving the looming threat of fascism, many in the US left are asking: what is to be done? The answer is clear: we must realize our common interest, link our hands, and gather into a single revolutionary, anti-fascist movement.
On Monday night there was a council meeting to introduce a ceasefire proposal for the city of Indianapolis. A member took a vote to completely remove it off the agenda for the 5th month in a row, completely ignoring the crowd that gathered for the event and even threatening the audience into silence.
In the troubling times the US is going through, I ask for your time to reflect on our next steps in search of a more egalitarian society under the Trump administration. Hopefully, our community will be able to continue fighting for change through our mobilization and unification. I ask you to engage, study, learn, and teach politics as your civic duty: not because it’s fun, not because we like it, but because we care.
On October 14th, 2022, climate activists from the advocacy group Just Stop Oil threw a can of tomato soup on Vincent Van Gogh's “Sunflowers.” Jerry Saltz declares that this climate action demonstrates an “implied hatred of any other idea of beauty.” What, then, is this “other idea of beauty” that our activists have so outrageously profaned?
This poem takes a golden shovel poetic form, inspired by W.B. Yeats’s 1919 poem, “The Second Coming”. Reading the last word of each line will reveal Yeats’s original poem
Recently, I attended a performance in Tai Kwun Contemporary, an art museum in Hong Kong’s Central. “Cyborg Park” by Taiwanese artist Jun-yu Chen explores “constructed nature”.