March 13, 2018

Voter Registration

March 13, 2018

By Ben Shahn (1898-1969). For All These Rights We've Just Begun to Fight, CIO Political Action Committee, 1946. Courtesy of the HUC Skirball Cultural Center Museum Collection, Los Angeles, Library of Congress (164)hh0164s.jpg via https://www.loc.gov… — By Ben Shahn (1898-1969). For All These Rights We've Just Begun to Fight, CIO Political Action Committee, 1946. Courtesy of the HUC Skirball Cultural Center Museum Collection, Los Angeles, Library of Congress (164)hh0164s.jpg via https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/haventohome/haven-home.html#obj8, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6426482

We are in an election year! All of the House of Representatives, 33 US Senators, 36 Governors, and numerous state and local offices are up for the vote in November, with many primary elections coming up before then, starting this month. This issue will focus on voter registration, the first step in turning resistance into electoral change.

Schools as Sites of Resistance

March 9, 2018

Kristina Jeffers

Photo by Jon Tyson on Unsplash — Photo by Jon Tyson on Unsplash

In the United States, there is a long tradition of schools as sites of resistance. Today’s three workouts help you take action to support student and teacher activists.

The DACA Cliffhanger

March 7, 2018

Kristina Jeffers

Photo by Alice Donovan Rouse on Unsplash — Photo by Alice Donovan Rouse on Unsplash

Monday was a significant day for recipients of DACA status: it was the day the Trump administration originally said the program would end. DACA status isn’t going away for everybody all at once (more on that in our 30-minute workout), and recent court cases have lightened the blow by allowing people who already had DACA status to continue renewing it. What doesn’t change is that we’ve made life unnecessarily hard for DACA recipients and their families. Let’s take care of our communities today.