When a security company set dogs on people challenging bulldozers in North Dakota on Sept. 3, the scalding images recalled similar violence against civil rights protesters in Birmingham, Ala., in… Read more »
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Standing Rock: Report from the front lines
The cold is settling in but the mood of Standing Rock is warm with solidarity. On Friday, Nov. 18, the International Indigenous Youth Council led a ceremony of 500 water… Read more »
Standing fast at Standing Rock: Water defenders throw a wrench into pipeline process
Indian-led encampments on Standing Rock Sioux territory are digging in for the North Dakota winter. They are determined to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline. And they are not alone, as… Read more »
Voices from Standing Rock: Interviews with water protectors on the front lines
Gina Petry of Radical Women and Patrick Burns of the Freedom Socialist Party traveled to Oceti Sakowin camp in November 2016 to cook, carpenter, and interview water protectors. On December… Read more »
Solving climate crisis requires revolution
Warming oceans contribute to the ferocity of hurricanes like Dorian, now approaching Florida. But humanity is not helpless in the face of climate change.
Ecuador: Indigenous Shuar resist corporate mining
The echo of helicopters, enormous trucks removing tons of rock (with gold), military vehicles 24 hours a day, and periodic gunshots — all this has become common to the indigenous… Read more »
As Sahara grows, Africa’s land and people suffer
Planet Earth is changing in many perilous ways. One of the most damaging shifts is desertification, which is essentially the expansion of barren desert climates. Nowhere is this desolation a… Read more »
Solidarity with Standing Rock Sioux Warriors
To the Standing Rock Sioux Warriors, The Freedom Socialist Party (FSP) and Radical Women (RW) send you this statement of unwavering solidarity for your battle against corporate America that wants… Read more »
Freedom Socialist editorial — Trump’s dangerous energy adviser
He loves coal and denies climate change.
Bring the assassins of Honduran leader Berta Cáceres to justice!
End U.S. complicity in crimes against the indigenous peoples of Latin America! The Freedom Socialist Party joins with activists around the world to protest the assassination of Berta Cáceres, the… Read more »