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The Wind Cries Freedom, the new book from Z co-founder Michael Albert, is a sweeping oral history of a future American revolution. Through thirty interconnected chapters, it draws out the strategies, failures, turning points, and hard-won wisdom of a movement that called itself the Revolutionary Participatory Society.

Climate activists engaged in nonviolent direct action are used to the rinse and repeat of arrest: handcuffs, short trip to jail, a misdemeanor charge and then release to friends for a post-action pizza dinner. Show up at court a few weeks later for a brief arraignment and wait for the case to be dismissed. Low drama. That’s changed under Trump.

With Germany’s export capitalism in deep crisis, German capital has gone on the attack, seeking to destroy the eight-hour workday, lower wages, and push workers ever deeper into job insecurity. German trade unions like IG Metall have vowed to resist this. Most expect a big showdown between labor and capital this coming fall and winter.

When the executive branch summarily stripped MS NOW, CNN, and Politico of their White House journalistic credentials, it enacted far more than a bureaucratic adjustment. It launched a direct assault on the institutional free press, transforming democratic infrastructure into a closed theater of unilateral power. This unprecedented purge stands in stark, dangerous opposition to the foundational framework established by Justice William J. Brennan Jr. in the landmark 1964 case New York Times Co. v.

I first visited New York back in the early 1970s. A native Californian, I was astonished at the extremes of wealth and poverty in the Big Apple. Rich people flaunted their wealth in a way that would be considered bad taste on the Pacific coast: women in mink being helped out of limousines by uniformed chauffeurs and escorted into lavish apartment buildings by uniformed doormen. Half a block away, people were getting their meals out of dumpsters.

The Wind Cries Freedom, the new book from Z co-founder Michael Albert, is a sweeping oral history of a future American revolution. Through thirty interconnected chapters, it draws out the strategies, failures, turning points, and hard-won wisdom of a movement that called itself the Revolutionary Participatory Society.

The Wind Cries Freedom, the new book from Z co-founder Michael Albert, is a sweeping oral history of a future American revolution. Through thirty interconnected chapters, it draws out the strategies, failures, turning points, and hard-won wisdom of a movement that called itself the Revolutionary Participatory Society.

The Wind Cries Freedom, the new book from Z co-founder Michael Albert, is a sweeping oral history of a future American revolution. Through thirty interconnected chapters, it draws out the strategies, failures, turning points, and hard-won wisdom of a movement that called itself the Revolutionary Participatory Society.

The Wind Cries Freedom, the new book from Z co-founder Michael Albert, is a sweeping oral history of a future American revolution. Through thirty interconnected chapters, it draws out the strategies, failures, turning points, and hard-won wisdom of a movement that called itself the Revolutionary Participatory Society.

The Wind Cries Freedom, the new book from Z co-founder Michael Albert, is a sweeping oral history of a future American revolution. Through thirty interconnected chapters, it draws out the strategies, failures, turning points, and hard-won wisdom of a movement that called itself the Revolutionary Participatory Society.