Linda Sarsour “will not submit to fear”
In February we reported on the efforts of Linda Sarsour—“working woman, racial justice and civil rights activist, every Islamophobe’s worst nightmare, and mother of three”—to raise money for the Jewish… Read more »
Linda Sarsour is “feeling bolder and braver than ever”
“I want you to keep telling yourself: ‘THIS IS NOT NORMAL. THIS IS NOT NORMAL. THIS IS NOT NORMAL.’ Repeat until it sinks to the deepest of your core.” That’s… Read more »
What we’re doing now
Wow, okay. Complicated weekend. On the negative side, a fascist has seized control of the White House, is ejecting the Joint Chiefs of Staff from the National Security Council and… Read more »
What We Do Now: We keep on rolling
As Dan Rather has recently written, “These are not normal times.” Let’s say this: America’s in crisis. We know this, and, with women as our leaders, we acknowledged it collectively three… Read more »
Inspiring speeches from Women’s Marches across the country
On Saturday, Americans from coast to coast, and everywhere in between, took to the streets in a protest that ended up being larger—by orders of magnitude—than the crowds gathered for… Read more »
Our daughters have their own revolution coming
One in six American women will be the victim of an attempted or completed rape in her lifetime. Said another way, that’s a little over twenty-six million women alive today. But… Read more »
A great start to what we do now
Last night in Brooklyn, a capacity crowd jammed into the powerHouse Arena, with a few hundred more watching from home via Facebook Live, to celebrate the release of What We… Read more »
What we do now: We get started
We’ve said it before: We’re heartbroken. Scared. Energized. Determined. Donald Trump won, it can happen here, and one thing is very clear — we need to act. That’s why we’re publishing What We Do… Read more »
Getting to know people who know what we do now: Anthony D. Romero, Bernie Sanders, Linda Sarsour
As you might have heard, in time for Inauguration Day we’re putting out What We Do Now, a collection of short, powerful essays on what we can do now to cope with Trump’s election, and how, moving… Read more »
Sanders, Warren, Steinem, and Other Leading Progressives Respond to Trump in New Melville House Book Pubbing for Inauguration Day
Melville House has announced it will publish a collection of passionate manifestos by leading progressives—including Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Gloria Steinem, Paul Krugman, Robert B. Reich, and others—and that it… Read more »