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The 14th Amendment states: “No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any state legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any state, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may, by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.”
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Call your US senators and demand they oppose the Trump regime’s warrantless mass surveillance. FISA — the War-on-Terror era legislation that authorized mass surveillance and is now under threat of being supercharged by AI — expired on June 12. Now, our Members of Congress have a choice to make: Uphold the Constitution and protect freedom of speech, or greenlight more of Trump’s authoritarian power grabs.
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The case for having the government take co-ownership of AI—make that the cases for having the government take co-ownership of AI—grow louder. I had to pluralize “case” since President Trump’s perspective on the virtues of government co-ownership are distinct from Bernie Sanders’s and those of his fellow democratic socialists (like, e.g., me).
Last week, Trump returned to the topic, saying the White House would soon host a meeting with a dozen or so top AI executives to discuss the industry’s future. For Trump, this isn’t breaking new ground. He’s already made deals to take partial government ownership of a host of corporations: U.S. Steel, Intel, Westinghouse, and roughly 15 companies (where some deals are still in progress) in the fields of rare earth mining or quantum computing.
As my mentor, DSA founder Michael Harrington, used to say, “any idiot can nationalize a company. The question is, can he socialize a company?”
Trump’s distinctive brand of idiocy was not what Harrington was focused on. In Trump’s case, the narcissism that fuels his need to control everything around him, to appear the winner in dealmaking, and to have his name stamped on a product to presumably enhance his stature has driven him to champion government co-ownership. He has taken the right-wing belief in a unitary executive one huge step further, governing by the creed of L’état c’est moi as far as Congress and the courts will let him. His is neither democratic socialism nor the socialism claimed by various authoritarians; it’s self-magnifying socialism. The model is neither Karl Marx, Gene Debs, nor Lenin; it’s Louis XIV.
Then there’s Bernie Sanders’s proposal, which is to create a sovereign wealth fund that can take major shares in fundamentally important private enterprises. Such funds exist in nations that sit atop oil fields, like Norway or Saudi Arabia, as well as in one decidedly un-Marxist U.S. state, Alaska, whose residents get an annual dividend of roughly $1,000 to $3,000 from a specified share of the revenues of oil companies drilling on lands that the state has leased or otherwise permitted them to drill on.
There’s no reason, of course, why sovereign wealth funds should restrict their investments to fossil fuels; any industry that generates massive revenues and is essential to public life should logically qualify for government co-ownership. A host of enterprises that meet that second criterion (essential to public life) are often wholly owned by governments, of course: chiefly utilities and transportation, often with the additional goal of reducing costs to consumers.
For Sanders and his allies, the move for co-ownership of the emerging AI industry stems from concerns about both income distribution and oversight in the public interest. As to that latter concern, there’s a reasonable fear that mere regulation won’t be up to the task of ensuring the public good, given both the transformational potential of AI and the speed with which it innovates. Needless to say, this concern for adequate regulation is not something that Trump has raised.
The concern about income distribution, sad to say, is rooted in a current reality in which wages for most Americans either stagnate or grow only incrementally, while income from investment increases much more rapidly and substantially, as last week’s SpaceX IPO that made Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire illustrates. AI’s potential to reward its investors while eliminating jobs could push that reality to a societal breaking point.
Both of Sanders’s concerns also inform the religious left. As Pope Leo XIV put it in his recent encyclical on artificial intelligence, “When it comes to decisions regarding economic flows and digital platforms, as well as the governance of data and algorithms, we cannot allow a handful of actors to dictate these processes on their own; instead, we must build forms of cooperation that respect the various levels of the global community and make them jointly responsible for the common good.” Co-ownership is a good way to ensure that.
Most of the leaders of the tech behemoths, as well as the largest investors in those companies (e.g., Andreessen Horowitz), paint a rosy future for the economy as AI advances into ever more spheres of life. The revenues and savings it will generate, they say, will flow to all. Last week, in an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who is forming a new AI company, insisted that AI will generate such huge productivity gains that everyone will benefit.
“There’s going to be two-earner income households where one earner drops out of the labor pool, because there’s going to be so much productivity,” Bezos said.
In that statement, he assumed that productivity gains are shared with workers, though that hasn’t been the case since the 1970s, as the Economic Policy Institute has been demonstrating for the past three decades. From the end of World War II through the ’70s, the rate of productivity gains and workers’ wage increases were virtually identical. Since then, as corporate attacks on unions all but eliminated collective bargaining in the private sector, productivity continued to rise while wages did only slightly better than flatlining. As a study by the RAND Corporation, commissioned by businessman Nick Hanauer, has demonstrated, if the share of corporate revenues going to employees had retained the levels it had in the three postwar decades, every American worker’s yearly income would be roughly $28,000 higher than it currently is.
Besides, Bezos himself has done everything in his considerable power to make sure that the immense revenues that Amazon earns are not shared with its workers. The company he founded, in which he remains both its executive chairman and largest single shareholder, will not bargain with its workers who’ve voted to unionize: Those at its Staten Island warehouse so voted four years ago, yet Amazon has consistently refused to sit down with them. It has shuttered all seven of its warehouses in the Canadian province of Quebec after the workers in one of those warehouses opted to go union. It has contested in U.S. courts the constitutionality of the National Labor Relations Board—a settled question for the past 90 years—for fear that the Board, during the Biden administration, might rule that the law requires the company to bargain when its workers have opted to do so (which, incidentally, happens to be exactly what the law requires).
Like most of his peers who control Big Tech, then, Bezos’s promises that AI’s immense revenues will surely trickle down to workers and the public should generate even more immense levels of skepticism. And that, I suppose, is one more reason to insist on public ownership, as American CEOs are maniacally devoted to suppressing labor income, but rely on capital income for such life’s necessities as bigger and sleeker yachts.
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Reporting in The New York Times reveals Vance wanted to use the military “to crush the unrest in Minnesota.”
A Monday report in The New York Times revealed what it described as the “alarm” felt by some White House lawyers at proposals made earlier this year by Vice President JD Vance and Trump adviser Stephen Miller as the administration was forced to contend with widespread anger over its anti-immigration agenda.
Among other things, the Times reported that Vance pushed for President Donald Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act, which would allow for the US military to be deployed on American streets, in an effort to shut down mass protests in Minnesota against federal immigration enforcement operations in the state.
A few days after US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers fatally shot demonstrator Alex Pretti in the streets of Minneapolis, the Times reported that Vance—who had also elevated a baseless claim by Miller that Pretti had been a “would-be assassin”—said invoking the Insurrection Act was necessary “to crush the unrest in Minnesota.”
Vance also believed invoking the law would send a “message” that “paid agitators could not get away with disrupting ICE operations”—even though, as the Times noted, there is no evidence that Pretti; demonstrator Renee Good, who was also killed by federal agents; or any other organizers in Minnesota or elsewhere received any money in exchange for protesting.
However, right-wing attorney Will Scharf quickly shot down Vance’s suggestion, noting that the Insurrection Act is an instrument aimed at putting down armed rebellions rather than groups of citizens blowing whistles at ICE officers.
Former White House Deputy Chief of Staff James Blair then made the political case against invoking the Insurrection Act.
“The scenes of federal agents in Minnesota already looked chaotic, he said, and the public was recoiling,” reported the Times. “He put three questions to the room: What does the Insurrection Act give us that we don’t already have? What changes on the ground would be worth the heat? What else could they win that would justify the public relations cost?”
“The room was quiet,” the Times added. “Nobody had a good answer.”
The Times report also revealed that Trump adviser Stephen Miller, Trump’s homeland security adviser and deputy chief of staff, repeatedly pushed the president to suspend the writ of habeas corpus for undocumented immigrants, which would give the administration the power to carry out mass deportations without being subjected to judicial oversight.
As in the case of Vance’s proposal, Scharf pushed back against Miller’s suggestion, noting that courts have long held that habeas corpus cannot be suspended unilaterally by the president and must be done by an act of Congress.
“Even where Congress has explicitly suspended habeas corpus rights,” Scharf wrote in a legal memo obtained by the Times, “the Supreme Court has held that some alternative process must be provided to defendants, with procedural safeguards akin to a habeas corpus action.”
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, senior fellow at the American Immigration Council, said the Times’ reporting showed Miller “would happily shred the Constitution into little pieces if he could,” before hopefully noting that “even he wasn’t powerful enough to do it” in this instance.
University of Michigan Law School Professor Leah Litman argued that the Times report showed some in the administration were at least still somewhat conscious of public opinion when making decisions.
“In the story about the administration weighing suspending habeas corpus and invoking the Insurrection Act, what moved the needle against the Insurrection Act was concern about ‘public relations,’” Litman wrote. “Public pushback, agitation, and outcry can work. Even now. Keep it up.”
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Climate scientists are sounding the alarm after an unprecedented heatwave hit Antarctica this month and delivered temperatures 20°C higher than normal.
According to a Friday report in The Guardian, temperatures at Antarctica’s Trinity Peninsula this month hit peaks of over 15°C, even though it is the start of winter when ice typically expands on the continent. The prior record June temperature at the peninsula, 13.3°C, was set in 1998.
After weeks of above-average temperatures, scientists noticed that an area of sea ice that typically forms in the region—one roughly the size of France—was missing.
“It’s depressing,” Will Hobbs, an Antarctic sea ice expert at the University of Tasmania, told The Guardian. “It is remarkable that we are in June and there is no sea ice there.”
Hobbs also predicted that the loss of sea ice is likely permanent at this point given the trajectory of global temperature changes.
Peter Fretwell, a scientist at the British Antarctic Survey, explained to the newspaper that the loss of sea ice poses a serious threat to penguin populations.
“Sea ice is forming too late and breaking up too early,” Fretwell explained. “It leads to reduced breeding success and longer trips to moulting grounds.”
In a separate interview with The Guardian last week, Raúl Cordero, a climate professor at the University of Groningen, expressed astonishment at the record-breaking Antarctic heat.
“This is absolutely crazy,” Cordero said. “That is a huge anomaly.”
Luis Muñoz, a Chilean glaciologist, told the newspaper he was shocked to step outside at King George’s Island, located just north of Trinity Peninsula, and seeing the ground uncovered by snow.
“The temperatures here went very high so everything outside melted,” Muñoz explained. “Usually there is 20 centimeters of snow and a lot of ice on the ground at this time.”
Taking stock of the bigger picture, the newspaper reported that scientists are now fearful that some of the biggest glaciers in the region of the peninsula have now “past a tipping point” that could “push up global sea levels by four meters.”
Such a rise in global sea levels would be unprecedented. Scientists estimate that global sea levels have risen by between 21 and 24 centimeters since 1880.
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As Sundar Pichai began his commencement address at Stanford University Sunday, more than 100 graduates staged a walkout, blowing whistles and chanting in protest of Google’s Project Nimbus contract with the Israeli government.
Over 100 graduates walked out as Pichai took the stage at Stanford University Sunday, while others in the audience waved Palestinian flags, held banners, blew whistles, and wore keffiyehs in support of Palestine, as SFGate reports. In video footage of the protest, Pichai can be heard continuing on with his speech as a steady stream of graduates head toward the exit.
Stanford grads walk out as Google CEO Sundar Pichai takes the stage as commencement speaker. No mention of AI, unlike other uni speakers getting booed down this year. Story for @sfgate shortly pic.twitter.com/qvS2rJ91Ip
Some students reportedly joined a separate “People’s Commencement” event featuring activist Mahmoud Khalil, the former Columbia University student who was detained by federal immigration authorities for more than 100 days over his pro-Palestinian activism.
The protest was in response to Google’s involvement in Project Nimbus, the company’s $1.2 billion cloud-computing contract with the Israeli government that it shares with Amazon.
As SFist reported in 2024, Google fired roughly 28 employees following a sit-in protest at company offices over Project Nimbus. Critics of the contract have long argued that Google has provided little transparency about how its technology is being used by the Israeli government, while the company maintains the project is not intended for weapons, intelligence, or other highly sensitive military applications.
According to a 2022 report by The Intercept examining leaked training materials, the contract gives Israeli government agencies access to Google’s cloud-based AI and machine-learning tools, including image analysis, facial detection, object tracking, and other data-processing capabilities. Some Google employees and outside researchers raised concerns that such tools could be used for surveillance or military purposes. Critics were especially concerned about Google’s claims that its software can detect emotions, intent, or deception — technology that has been debunked by experts.
Gizmodo reports that earlier this year, hundreds of Google employees signed a letter seeking greater transparency about the company’s government contracts and concerns that its technology could be used to support federal immigration enforcement.
The protest also comes just months after Google completed its $32 billion acquisition of Israeli cybersecurity company Wiz, the largest purchase in the company’s history, as TechCrunch reported in March.
Despite the disruptions, SFGate reports that Pichai’s speech was otherwise well received after the protesters left. Unlike several commencement speakers who faced backlash this graduation season over comments about artificial intelligence, Pichai largely avoided the topic altogether.
According to NBC News, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed during his address at the University of Arizona last month, with some audience members objecting to his comments about artificial intelligence and others reportedly shouting references to his alleged ties to Jeffrey Epstein.
Image: Google CEO Sundar Pichai attends a dinner with U.S. President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi in the State Dining Room at the White House on March 19, 2026 in Washington, DC. This is Takaichi’s first official visit to Washington as Prime Minster. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
California Sen. Scott Wiener greets attendees at his election night party on June 2, 2026. Photo by Eleni Balakrishnan/
Right-wing grievance culture has not yet mounted a case that we should all be watching “Song of the South,” even if the U.S. Supreme Court seems intent that we should all be living “Song of the South.”
Disney essentially locked away the 1946 animated/live-action hybrid 40 years ago like the man in the iron mask; even by the mid-1980s, its treacly depictions of Lost Cause plantation stereotypes were offensive and archaic.
But if the right-wingers calling the nation’s political shots had sat down and watched this film, they might have learned something: It’s true! It’s actual! Everything is satisfactual.
In the abstract: They might have noticed that Br’er Fox and Br’er Bear, hoping to harm Br’er Rabbit, foolishly threw him into the Briar Patch, which is the biggest favor they could’ve given him.
In the concrete: Right-wing loons keep throwing Scott Wiener into the Briar Patch.
In the most recent instance of a high-profile reactionary zealot targeting San Francisco’s state senator and aspirational congressman, the incredibly lifelike Laura Loomer described Wiener on her podcast earlier this month as a “degenerate … BDSM-wearing freak” who has worked to “legalize murder.”
The chyron across the screen read “Democrats Nominate Al-Qaeda Linked Jihadist and Pedophile Protector.” She also tweeted this to her 1.9 million followers.
There is danger here. Unhinged individuals preaching unhinged messages to fellow unhinged individuals can lead to dire consequences in both the real and virtual worlds.
Wiener’s office affirms that, for years, “not a week goes by” without the police being notified because of a salient online threat. Multiple people have been prosecuted for making threats to Wiener’s life.
Being Scott Wiener, or even working for him, entails getting your “fair share of abuse,” as Mick Jagger might have put it.
But there is also a silver lining. You couldn’t procure more effective advertising in San Francisco than being targeted as the bête noire of increasingly deranged and outlandish right-wing commenters — who, chillingly, no longer represent a fringe outlook.
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Wiener, in more ways than one, has always been a big target.
In 2015, when Fox News sent then-Bill O’Reilly minion Jesse Watters and others to buttonhole city officials and put them on the spot about the killing of Kate Steinle, Supervisor Wiener went viral with his monotone brushoff: “Fox News is not real news, and you’re not a reporter.”
He delivered this line, repeatedly, like Marshawn Lynch answering every media question by reciting “I’m just here so I won’t get fined.” Except Wiener did it while traipsing down a hallway; you could call it an Aaron Sorkin walk-and-don’t-talk.
After O’Reilly called Wiener a “pinhead” on national television, the Castro supervisor subsequently received thousands of threats and a cottage industry was born.
Since that time, Watters has oozed up his corporate ladder and Wiener, the politician who told him to stick it, has advanced up his political ladder.
The relationship between right-wing media and Wiener is toxic. But it’s also symbiotic.
In life, politics and news infotainment, crass stupidity can explain a lot. But it doesn’t explain the ongoing right-wing obsession with Scott Wiener.
One needn’t be a political Einstein to realize that right-wing extremists attacking a San Francisco centrist plays about as well here as vegan Maoists targeting the institution of Texas barbecue.
Put another way, even stupid people like to win, and clearly the people going after Wiener know they’re not doing that when it comes to San Francisco voters.
Perhaps the best analog here is professional wrestling. The former Worldwide Wrestling Federation is now known as Worldwide Wrestling Entertainment. This is show business. So is right-wing infotainment.
Wiener, for their audience, serves the role of wrestling heel, whether he likes it or not. Think of him as a much taller Andy Kaufman with a law degree.
If the state senator’s right-wing infotainment critics were truly aghast at the prospects of his political matriculation, you’d think they’d have come up with a strategy over the past decade and change that doesn’t symbiotically benefit him with the actual people who vote for him. They haven’t.
And that’s because Scott Wiener is good for the rage-bating business. If he didn’t exist, they’d have to make him up.
“Honestly, keep in mind, these people are scam artists,” says Wiener. “It’s all about the clicks and the engagement. I am red meat for their base.”
Incidentally, San Francisco center-left Democrat Scott Wiener does eat red meat as well as portray it on TV.
Congressional candidates Saikat, Chakrabarti, Connie Chan, Marie Hurabiell and Scott Wiener participate in a forum at Chinatown’s Victory Hall on March 14, 2026. Photo by Yujie Zhou.
There are many downsides to the reduction of politics to entertainment — and wrestling-like entertainment at that. It’s all fun and games until someone gets hit with a folding chair, and the continuing debasement of political discourse by bad actors looking to score some clout is making us all dumber — and that right soon.
It is startling, when you take a moment to come up for air, how dumb it’s all gotten. There is, as we speak, a UFC cage on the White House lawn. The East Wing previously resembled wreckage from Dresden.
But, if you’re hoping to find a pony beneath the mounds of horse manure, there is this: The reactionary culture war issues perpetually enraging the online right remain a nonfactor here in San Francisco.
Former Trump appointee and Republican-turned-Democrat Marie Hurabiell, who felt the best route to replace Rep. Nancy Pelosi as San Francisco’s congresswoman was to run on transgender bathroom issues, is polling about 4 percent in the most recent returns.
Hurabiell also traveled to Sacramento last week to inveigh against a Wiener bill to ease lawsuits against LGBTQ-conversion-therapy practitioners. While Hurabiell seems to have received outsize support among angry people on Twitter, actual voters behaved differently.
San Franciscans, for all our superficialities, are not getting worked up about transgender people locking themselves in bathroom stalls and using the facilities. Hurabiell is running neck and neck for fourth place in the congressional primary with a Republican challenger who does not appear to have mounted a campaign.
So, whatever issues Wiener and Supervisor Connie Chan run on in November’s general election, they will, by default, be more substantive and relevant than that.
But, in show business, everyone loves a sequel. Expect more performative right-wing vitriol directed Wiener’s way, and expect the state senator to suffer. But also prosper.
It’s the truth. It’s actual. But everything isn’t satisfactual.
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Saikat Chakrabarti riding the N-Judah on election day June 2, 2026. Photo by Zoe Malen.
Eliminated congressional candidate Saikat Chakrabarti is redirecting his campaign to canvas for Supervisor Connie Chan, according to an email obtained by Mission Local.
“We are currently transitioning campaigning operations into a new entity that will continue field work in support of the Connie Chan campaign,” read the email, which was sent to campaign workers on June 9.
Chakrabarti had a well-staffed field team: The candidate hired more than 250 canvassers, including many well-paid Chinese-speaking ones, to create what he called the “the largest field campaign in U.S. congressional race history.”
Some of that team will now be knocking doors and flyering the city in support of Chan.
On June 11, Chakrabarti converted his campaign committee into the “SF Solidarity PAC,” which can spend freely in support of other candidates. His new effort in support of Chan appears to be the PAC’s first act.
The move comes after Chakrabarti’s primary loss, where he came in third with 18 percent of the vote. Chan and State Sen. Scott Wiener advanced to the general election, earning 30 percent and 41 percent of the vote, respectively.
It is unclear whether Chakrabarti will be putting more funds into the PAC or just spending down whatever remains in his campaign account. The candidate, who became a centimillionaire from his early days at Stripe, had put $10 million of his own money into his campaign, some of which may remain after his loss.
In the email, staffers were told that the “new initiative” would end on July 10.
“If you wish to continue, you will remain in your current field role and you will continue working through Friday, July 10, 2026, when this initiative to support Connie Chan is expected to end,” the email says.
Connie Chan, District 1 Supervisor running for Congress, campaigns on 24th and Mission St on election day, June 2, 2026. Photo by Zoe Malen.
Chakrabarti’s decision to back Chan over Wiener is not a surprise; she is running in the progressive lane against Wiener. On the campaign trail, he frequently criticized Wiener, but avoided directly attacking Chan.
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“If Connie wins the primary, Saikat and his entire team will support her. If Saikat wins the primary, he hopes she will do the same,” spokesperson Tiffaney Bradley told the San Francisco Standard in April.
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Author Yotam Marom (experienced organizer and leader in movements like Occupy Wall Street)
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For Louder Days: Reaching Beyond a Politics of Powerlessness by Yotam Marom is a non-fiction book that challenges progressive and left-wing movements to overcome their ambivalence toward power, insularity, and comfortable defeat, offering strategies for more effective, strategic, and loving political activism. [1]
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Author: Yotam Marom (experienced organizer and leader in movements like Occupy Wall Street)
Publisher: The New Press
Core Theme: A critique of the Left’s tendency to prioritize moral purity over actually winning, a trap the author defines as the “politics of powerlessness”. [1, 2]
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Action-Oriented: Marom provides practical tools and stories drawn from his decades of organizing experience to help activists transition from feeling powerless to building enduring, collective strength. [1]
Raw & Tender Tone: It is noted for its unguarded honesty, blending fierce critique with a deep compassion for the movement and a hopeful vision for the future. [1, 2]
You can track reviews, read community ratings, or add it to your reading list on Goodreads. To explore purchasing options or read more about the book’s premise, check out The New Press or Amazon. [1]
The essential guide to establishing an effective opposition movement in the age of Trump, from the leading activist and organizer
“I consider [Marom] one of the most generous and important thinkers for the activist left, for anyone who cares about where we are and how to get to where we should be.” —Rebecca Solnit
There is no way to stop the descent into authoritarianism, nor win a world in which all people can thrive, without massive numbers of people organizing for social, political, and economic change.
Yet experienced movement leader Yotam Marom delivers a hard truth: progressive and left movements too often get in their own way. They can be ambivalent about power, choosing insularity and purity over winning. This amounts to what Marom calls the “politics of powerlessness,” which has kept movements small, weak, and defeated.
In For Louder Days: Reaching Beyond a Politics of Powerlessness, Marom offers a brilliant, lyrical clarion cry for a more honest, more strategic, more loving approach to progressive activism and movement building. Grounded in decades of experience in movements, from leading at Occupy Wall Street and other movement moments to supporting some of the most important climate, racial justice, and democracy movements of our time, Marom dives deep into the challenges that hold movements back, and offers stories, tools, and paths toward real power and enduring change.
Published at the most perilous time in our modern political history, For Louder Days comes not a moment too soon. It is essential reading for committed activists as well as the wider public concerned about the state of our world and hoping to change it for the better.
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One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism Virtual Event · Hosted by No Kings Time Wednesdays 8 – 9:30pm EDT Location Virtual event Join from anywhere About this event Across the country, authoritarian forces are getting bolder and more dangerous. Trump and his allies are not hiding their agenda: mass deportations,... Continue reading →
THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 2023 AT 2 AM – 4 AM PDT How to create trust in a group? Details Event by Extinction Rebellion Empathy Circles online EMPATHY CAFE Duration: 2 hr Public · Anyone on or off Facebook How to create trust in a group? This is the question that arose in our... Continue reading →
Trump Regime Takedown: Every Saturday Saturday, March 7, 2026 12:00 PM 2:00 PM Tesla San Francisco999 Van Ness AvenueSan Francisco, CA, 94109United States (map) Google Calendar ICS Keep democracy alive every Saturday by showing up, taking a stand, and sticking together for the long haul. Standing together is better than standing alone. Let’s get together... Continue reading →
Milk/Alice Pride Happy Hour and Dance Party Date: Saturday, June 20 Time: 4-9 PM Location: Lookout, 3600 16th Street, SF. Details: Join us at Lookout for the queerest Happy Hour Dance Party- curated by Milk’s very own ✨Marie ✨, the genius behind some of San Francisco’s most unforgettable dance floors. Expect hot beats, cute... Continue reading →
This Sunday’s Town Hall: Announcing This Week’s Progressive Town Hall: Every Sunday at 4pm ET/1pm PT RSVP HERE Join PDA activists online from across the country to discuss the importance of progressives reclaiming the American story from the MAGA right, an issue of heightened importance as we’re now within one... Continue reading →
This event is on Sunday June 21st from 4pm-6pm. You’re invited to join us in person as we break down last week’s Election results. Join the League of Pissed Off Voters for a panel on Sunday, June 21st, from 4pm – 6pm. We’ll look at some maps and try to answer questions... Continue reading →
We protest Heritage Foundation EVERY MONDAY (Join us!!!!) By admin | September 2, 2025 | Uncategorized Cliff Cash Comedy Premiered Jul 26, 2025 Every Monday at The Heritage Foundation 214 Massachusetts Ave. Washington D.C. 4pm protest 6pm pizza Every Friday at Fox News D.C. 400 N. Capitol St. Washington D.C. 4pm protest 6pm pizza We are... Continue reading →
Milk Club Trans Caucus Meeting Date: Tuesday, June 23 Time: 5-7 PM Location and Zoom Link: Meeting info available to members of the Milk Club Trans Caucus. Please reach out to trans@milkclub.org if you would like to join the Milk Club Trans Caucus.
Milk Club BIPOC Caucus Meeting Date: Tuesday, June 23 Time: 7-8:30 PM Location and Zoom Link: Meeting info here! Open to Black, Indigenous, People of Color with room for allies to lift up BIPOC voices and discuss BIPOC democratic issues. Please reach out to BIPOC@milkclub.org if you would like to join us or get invited to... Continue reading →
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