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Alexandria Shaner is a writer, organizer, and educator.
She is an editor of ZNetwork.org, a writer for Extinction Rebellion's global newsletter team, and is active with DSA and Food Not Bombs.

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DRC Bleeds Conflict Minerals for Green Growth - FPIF

DRC Bleeds Conflict Minerals for Green Growth - FPIF

Congolese activists, facing violence and colonial exploitation, call for a green transition that puts justice…

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The Real Story Behind Immigration, Work, and Power

The Real Story Behind Immigration, Work, and Power

Why people migrate, who profits from division, and how working people can build power together

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Social strikes are emerging as a defense against ICE and authoritarianism

Social strikes are emerging as a defense against ICE and authoritarianism

Alexandria Shaner interviews labor historian Jeremy Brecher on the strategy, potential and challenges of mass…

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Blood Carbon: Kenyans are Being Erased so the UAE can Greenwash

Blood Carbon: Kenyans are Being Erased so the UAE can Greenwash

Sasimwani, Kenya | We face a pivotal moment where carbon land grabs could sweep the Global South. If the carb…

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20 Years Later: Confessions of a Conscientious Quitter - Antiwar.com Original

20 Years Later: Confessions of a Conscientious Quitter - Antiwar.com Original

It's been 20 years since the lies and obfuscation that led to the US invasion of Iraq in 2003. I'm about to t…

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How Congolese students are taking on Big Oil

How Congolese students are taking on Big Oil

A new campaign is mobilizing communities across the Democratic Republic of Congo to stop the fossil fuel indu…

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Black Power, White Heat, and the Work of Solidarity

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By Alexandria Shaner, Ryan Black
| Progressive Hub
Echols tells the story of interracial and cross-racial organizing within the Black freedom movement through two organizations that bookend the decade: the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, or SNCC, and the Black Panther Party. The Panthers’ commitment to armed self-defense, and later debates over militancy and guerrilla warfare, form part of that history.
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Black Power, White Heat and the Work of Solidarity

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By Alexandria Shaner
| Truthdig Verified
There is a particular kind of political amnesia that can overtake movements in difficult times. We remember the victories but forget the arguments that preceded them. We remember the marches but forget the years of patient organizing that made them possible. We remember solidarity as a feeling rather than a political practice. Alice Echols’ “Black Power, White Heat: From Solidarity Politics to Radical Chic” is a useful antidote to that amnesia.
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What The 1960s Can Teach Us About Cross-Racial Solidarity

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By Alexandria Shaner
| Popular Resistance
Above photo: Civil rights demonstrators stage a protest at the 1964 Democratic National Convention in New Jersey. Getty Images. Alice Echols’ new history of the Panthers and SNCC, “Black Power, White Heat,” emphasizes the possibility — and power — of solidarity across real differences. There is a particular kind of political amnesia that can overtake movements in difficult times. We remember the victories but forget the arguments that preceded them.
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