By KIERSTEN SCHMIDT and SARAH ALMUKHTAR UPDATED Jan. 18, 2017 CLICK IMAGE for link to story Hundreds of demonstrations around the world are being planned for Jan. 21 in conjunction with the Women’s March on Washington, which is expected to be the largest inauguration-related demonstration in United States history. An estimated 200,000 people could join […]
By David Weigel January 15, 2017 7:05 pm Democrats and labor organizers spent Sunday at dozens of rallies across the country, pledging to fight in Congress against the repeal of the Affordable Care Act and any attempt to change Medicare or Medicaid. The party’s leaders faced crowds ranging in size from dozens to thousands of […]
By Charles Bethea December 16, 2016 On Wednesday, around 7 P.M., a Google document entitled “Indivisible: A Practical Guide for Resisting the Trump Agenda” began making the rounds online. Its origin was the Twitter account of Ezra Levin, a thirty-one-year-old associate director at a national anti-poverty nonprofit, and self-described “Twitter novice,” who lives in D.C. and, until a […]
CLICK THE IMAGE for the pdf. Anti-GOP Uprising Grows as “Indivisible Guide’ to Resisting Trump Goes Viral. By Nadia Prupis Jan. 5th, 2017 Former congressional staffers are publicizing their newly released “Indivisible Guide,” a manual for people, groups, and organizations who want to resist the incoming rightwing administration through grassroots action. President-elect Donald Trump rose […]
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 1/4/17 Resistance to Donald Trump begins to grow with local roots Rachel Maddow looks at examples of a burgeoning anti-Trump movement taking shape with local, grassroots organizing, in some ways mirroring the tea party’s anti-Obama movement. What is the ‘Indivisible’ guide? Rachel explains the online organizing guide, written by former congressional staffers, […]
BY CASSADY FENDLAY, HEAD OF COMMUNICATIONS WOMEN’S MARCH ON WASHINGTON RELEASES MISSION AND VISION FOR JANUARY CONVENING IN WASHINGTON, DC National grassroots movement addresses the choice to use the historical name, honors the legacy of defending equity and human rights November 21, 2016 (New York, NY)–The organizers of the Women’s March on Washington released a […]
By John Cassidy December 16, 2016 Over the past few weeks, a number of anguished friends and acquaintances, and even some strangers, have got in touch with me to ask what they might do to oppose Donald Trump. Being a fellow sufferer from oats—Obsessing About Trump Syndrome—my first instinct has been to tell people to […]