April 2020

People are dying and Congress is on vacation by Sophie Guthier, photo by Josh Yoder I’m 19 years old and I dropped out of college to organize. I’m wondering why Congress doesn’t share my sense of urgency. Shifting to full-time organizing was a natural choice for me. In high school, I was totally preoccupied with organizing.…

Earth Day: 50 Years and Nothing’s Changed by Mattias Lehman Fifty years ago, twenty million Americans poured into the streets for the first Earth Day with a radical statement: we only have one planet and we can’t render it uninhabitable. Fifty years ago was the time for incremental action on climate change. We have not…

Bernie’s Out: Where we go from here by Mattias Lehman If you haven’t heard the news yet, it’s official: Bernie Sanders has suspended his campaign for President. So many of us are feeling the heartbreak that accompanies those words, a pain compounded by the fear and uncertainty we are already experiencing over the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s…