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Reading the Signs in the Streets with Marshall Berman

Michael Walzer ▪ April 12, 2017

As Marshall Berman wrote, reading Capital won’t help us if we don’t also know how to read the signs in the streets.

Belabored Podcast #125: Striking to Live in the Age of Trump

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen ▪ April 7, 2017

Organizers and participants in three recent strikes—the Yemeni bodega strike, the taxi workers’ strike at JFK airport, and last year’s Verizon strike—discuss labor under Trump.

Belabored Podcast #122: Immigrants Strike Back at the White House

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen ▪ February 24, 2017

Following last week’s Day Without Immigrants, organizers share their insights about how to fight Trump at work and in the streets.

Hot & Bothered Podcast #11: A Just Transition for New York State? With Franchelle Hart

Daniel Aldana Cohen and Kate Aronoff ▪ February 15, 2017

From the Rust Belt to the Big Apple, a coalition of grassroots groups across New York state is showing what local climate policy can do in the age of Trump.

At the Women’s Marches

Editors ▪ January 24, 2017

Dissent editors reflect on the weekend’s marches.

Inaugurating a New Movement

Michelle Chen ▪ January 24, 2017

At Saturday’s marches, countless first-time protesters joined veteran activists championing often ignored struggles, with a camaraderie to match the grim nihilism of the day before.

New York’s Homegrown Women’s March

Nicolaus Mills ▪ January 24, 2017

The 53 percent of white women who voted for Trump represent a major political constituency; but if Saturday was any indication, they may before long be outnumbered by the likes of the marchers I saw holding signs that said, “Women are not up for grabs.”

Belabored Podcast #118: Fighting for Sanctuary and Solidarity

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen ▪ December 16, 2016

Rosanna Aran and Christina Fox of #SomosVisibles join us to talk about immigrant organizing in New York under Trump.

On Blueness: A Conversation with Joshua Bennett

Jesse McCarthy ▪ October 20, 2016

Joshua Bennett talks about writing poetry after Ferguson.

[EVENT | October 6] Fall Issue Reading Party

Editors ▪ September 30, 2016

Join us on Thursday, October 6 for an evening of short readings from our Fall issue.

Drone Art

Colin Vanderburg ▪ Summer 2016

Drones offer the most compact, iconic representation of the new image of warfare: sanitary, sleek, almost post-human.

A Tour of the American Left

Sarah Jaffe ▪ February 9, 2016

An interview with Daniel Oppenheimer about his new book Exit Right, a survey of the twentieth-century American left, seen through the eyes of six men who left it behind and turned to the right.