Z Friends & Staff Posts
On May 8, 2024, as Israel escalated its brutal assault on Rafah, President Biden announced that he had “paused” a delivery of 1,700 500-pound…
Consider everybody in society. Some eat meat, others don’t. Some live in Spain, others in Japan. Some are rural, others urban. Countless…
Identity is fluid, because concepts such as culture, history and collective self-perceptions are never fixed. They are in a constant state of…
Persisting in his support for an unpopular war, the Democrat in the White House has helped spark a rebellion close to home.…
A sobering article published in The Guardian yesterday has gotten me thinking, not for the first time, about why, despite difficult odds and repeated…
I recently turned 77. That is old. I got many congratulatory messages. I found them a bit sad but not because I…
On April 30, when Columbia University student protesters took over Hamilton Hall, they renamed it “Hind’s Hall,” dropping a large banner out…
What is taking place in occupied Palestine is not a conflict, but a straightforward case of illegal military occupation, apartheid, ethnic cleansing…
When Barn Raiser first reached Zach Shrewsbury to interview the former Marine about his U.S. Senate campaign in West Virginia, he was trying to…
Three weeks ago, I was banned from entering Germany. When I asked the German authorities who decided this, when, and under what rationale, I…
I read an article in 2008. It recounted miraculous events and dynamics from four decades earlier. It asked, what happened to all…
United Nations World Food Program Executive Director Cindy McCain said Friday that Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip are experiencing “full-blown famine” after nearly…
House lawmakers voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to approve legislation directing the U.S. Department of Education to consider a dubious definition of antisemitism, despite…
The mass protests at dozens of US universities cannot be reduced to a stifling and misleading conversation about antisemitism. Thousands of American…
April 30 is a day I remember because it is my mom’s birthday. She died in 2005. But it’s also a day…
Mr. or Ms. President of any and every college. The facts over there, in Gaza, are on display to see. The facts…
May 1st is International Workers’ Day and was established as such in celebration of the struggle for the introduction of the eight-hour…
The Green New Deal from Below represents a unique formation which therefore requires – and has developed — a unique strategy. It…
Throughout history, fringe religious Zionist parties have had limited success in achieving the kind of electoral victories that would allow them an…
The events now happening on campuses are profoundly uplifting, ethically inspiring, and strategically wise. As I write, thirty-eight U.S. College campuses have…
The outcome of the Palestine vote and the American veto at the United Nations Security Council on April 18 was predictable. Though…
What to do. What to do. Consider our times. Do you feel, like I feel, massive confusion at what is happening out…
Throughout history, fringe religious Zionist parties have had limited success in achieving the kind of electoral victories that would allow them an…
In late October, 2018, East Bay DSA members and other progressives organized a pre-election rally at a Berkeley High School auditorium. A…
The non-violence training to join the Freedom Flotilla Coalition’s ships to Gaza has been intense. As hundreds of us from 32 countries…
Earth Day 2024, Washington, DC | The red carpet had been rolled out from the high doors and down the polished steps…
One of South Korea’s two highest courts on Tuesday began hearing Asia’s first-ever youth-led climate lawsuit, which accuses the country’s government of…
“Tin soldiers and Nixon’s coming, We’re finally on our own. This summer, I hear the drummin’ Four dead in O-hi-o . . .” —“Ohio,”…
I went to MIT, class of 1969. It is now 2024 not the late sixties, but rebellion for change is again in…
The western discourse on the circumstances behind the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 75 years ago, is hardly convincing. …
The distance between Gaza and Namibia is measured in the thousands of kilometers. But the historical distance is much closer. This is…
The New York Times coverage of the Israeli carnage in Gaza, like that of other mainstream US media, is a disgrace to…
The distance between Gaza and Namibia is measured in the thousands of kilometers. But the historical distance is much closer. This is…
As Germany intensifies its crackdown on pro-Palestinian voices, we speak with Greek economist and politician Yanis Varoufakis, one of the planned speakers…
The Israeli online magazine +972 has published a detailed report on Israel’s use of an artificial intelligence (AI) system called “Lavender” to target thousands…
“We are a married couple of 45 years. We are taking action together as elders deeply concerned about the future facing our…
Teargas for mega-mines Corporations and their government enablers prefer to keep the ecocidal and ethnocidal reality of extractivism hidden, but activists in…
Friends, Congratulations, and heartfelt thanks, for being here, despite the threats, despite the ironclad police outside this venue, despite the panoply of…
Israel described its clearly deliberate killing of seven humanitarian aid workers on April 1 as a “grave mistake”, a “tragic event” that “happens in…
If there is a single false claim to “nonviolent” struggle that has most powerfully captured the imagination of the world, it is…
The original Green New Deal resolution took as its models not only the original New Deal but also the home front mobilization…
Patricia Evangelista’s Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country is not an easy read. An account of genocide is never an…
Human activity in a profit-driven world divided by nation-states and those who have rights and those who don’t is the primary driver…
The Berlin-based Lawyers’ Collective on Friday sued the German government in an effort to stop weapons transfers to Israel, whose government and…
Mexico on Friday night announced the suspension of diplomatic relations with Ecuador after police stormed the Mexican Embassy in Quito and kidnapped…
The three most critical heat-trapping gases in Earth’s atmosphere again reached record levels last year, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Friday,…
A doctor at an Israeli field hospital inside a notorious detention center where hundreds of Palestinian prisoners are temporarily held is sounding the alarm…
Historically, wars unite Israelis. Not anymore. Not that Israelis do not agree with Benjamin Netanyahu’s war; they simply do not believe that…
When the Washington Post revealed Friday afternoon that “the Biden administration in recent days quietly authorized the transfer of billions of dollars in bombs…
Those who admonish Palestinian Resistance, armed or otherwise, have little understanding of the psychological ramifications of resistance, such as a sense of…