Purim is as much a story of collective survival as it is of heroic deeds and last-minute inversions. A tale for our times, it is the story of how vulnerable people find sanctuary, spitting in the eye of their oppressors with the rowdy fact of their rebel endurance.
Symbols and slogans take on meaning precisely because they are charged with the weight of fraught, painful, and contradictory pasts. They mean different things to different people. Respecting the power of these collisions constitutes both political good sense and common decency.
The Crucial Lesson from Sumud Freedom Camp, Day 11 and Raid #3 by Jodi Melamed I have learned how valuable a piece of fabric can
A break from labor, even the labor of social change, may be as radical as the work itself. Shabbat elevates to new importance in the Trump era.
After 9 months of resistance at Standing Rock, a partial win: the Army Corps of Engineers has denied the permit to complete the Dakota Access Pipeline.
In this charged context, any sign of resistance on the part of Indian protectors and their allies is read as dangerous insurgency. That is how the metaphysics of Indian hating works.
With festivities staged in rickety shelters open to the sky, Sukkot seemed to us like an ideal time to honor the situation of the almost 70 million refugees worldwide who sleep every night in these kinds of dwellings. In a state that has refused to accept any refugees from an escalating Syrian civil war, we hoped to use the holiday to jumpstart our solidarity with these displaced people.
Rachel Ida Buff reflects on Unetaneh tokef over a missing family cat.
Nonviolent protest and civil disobedience — including boycotts — were as controversial in the 1960s as they are in our current time.
But maybe that’s a false dichotomy: maybe the kinds of global connections created by popular music, by Prince specifically, can also link us to struggles for justice. Popular music provides an index of sound and memory. It is intensely personal, but also widely shared. And maybe this sharing is revolutionary: bread and roses, Prince and The Revolution.