"Storm the Heavens": Notes From the Weather Underground on Resistance to Trump

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Former members of the radical resistance group share their perspectives on resisting empire under the Trump regime. [Read the Article]( [Tax Day and the Killer Instinct in Economic Policy]( Dean Baker, Truthout: If upward redistribution is to be reversed, it will be necessary for the left to get into the same policy-writing weeds as the right. We can't afford to let the right wing continue to redistribute before-tax income upward with the hope that we can get a few more dollars in taxes from them. [Read the Article]( [Mitigating Climate Disaster Will Require Both Systemic and Lifestyle Changes]( Joseph Nevins, Truthout: Even before the Trump administration characterized climate change as a "hoax," most of us in the US, including on the left, practiced climate denialism of a different sort. By setting up a false dichotomy between the pursuit of systemic transformations and the adoption of lifestyle changes, we have refused to scrutinize how our own consumption patterns contribute to emissions. [Read the Article]( [Advocates Urge Trump to De-escalate With North Korea, Not Ratchet Up Threats and Military Aggression]( Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now!: Vice President Mike Pence has made an unannounced visit to the Demilitarized Zone separating South and North Korea, following North Korea's attempted missile launch. This comes as China, as well as many advocates around the world, urge the US and North Korea to de-escalate the conflict. [Watch the Video and Read the Transcript]( [The Anarchism of Blackness]( William C. Anderson and Zoé Samudzi, ROAR Magazine: The Black liberation struggle has long provided a blueprint for transformative social change, and it has done so due to its positioning as an inherently radical social formation -- a product of the virulent and foundational nature of anti-Blackness in US society. [Read the Article]( [Trump's War on Urban "Carnage" Was a Ruse]( Ebony Slaughter-Johnson, OtherWords: Under the Obama administration, the federal government played a key role in exposing abuses in scores of local police departments. Yet Attorney General Jeff Sessions has promised to "pull back on" civil rights suits against police departments. He recently ordered a review of all reform arrangements the Department of Justice reached with local police. 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He says the New Jersey bank would "take money out of Wall Street and put it to work for New Jersey." How can state-owned banks serve people in a way that Wall Street can't? [Read the Article]( [Organizing to Learn, Learning to Organize]( Chris Brooks, Labor Notes: For decades the Highlander Center has been at the heart of some of our country’s most important social movements. In this interview, Susan Williams, who has worked as an educator there for 28 years, discusses the importance of popular education. [Read the Interview]( [Support Truthout with a tax-deductible donation ]( Please add messenger@truthout.org to ensure you receive our messages Truthout is a proud member of the Newspaper Guild/CWA, Local 36047 [Subscribe]( | [Unsubscribe]( [Privacy Policy](   [The Newspaper Guild]