I was having a conversation with a few friends the other day about how bad things were likely to get economically speaking and what a post-coronavirus recovery could look like. Specifically wha...
https://holdfastblog.com/2020/04/15/preserving-the-economy-without-a-restructure/
Amidst the fear and pain of the Coronavirus pandemic, the one thing that has given me hope is how people have come together in response – meeting the needs of the moment with togetherness inste...
https://holdfastblog.com/2020/03/24/solidarity-against-trumps-austerity-death-trap/
“Are you willing to fight for that person who you don’t even know as much as you’re willing to fight for yourself?” – B. Sanders I’ve spent a lot of time over this prolonged president...
https://holdfastblog.com/2020/03/12/fatherhood-bernie-sanders-humanism/
Eric Liu has a piece in The Atlantic that looks at the civic upswell that’s happened in response to Trump. It’s overall encouraging, celebrating that “people are exercising both power and c...
In Jacobin, Alex Gourevitch has an interesting article challenging the resistance movements that are emerging in response to Trump to be sure to include a positive vision for the world we want t...
It’s terrifying to think that the Trump era has only been going on for two weeks and two days. It feels like it’s been months already. A huge part of this has been due to the breakneck speed ...
I’ve been an activist for half my life at this point. When I was in high school and college, going to marches and protests really fired me up. It was the realization of grassroots, campus-based...
This is probably the most moving and powerful presidential web video I can ever recall seeing. It’s from the Sanders campaign and is the story of Erica Garner, Eric Garner’s daughter. We have...
Michelle Alexander’s much-discussed piece in The Nation on Clinton, Sanders and African-Americans is worth reading. I want to pull out one line from it, though, that isn’t about race but inst...
https://holdfastblog.com/2016/02/10/arriving-in-power-the-establishment/
In case you haven’t been paying close attention, the Democratic presidential primary has dramatically heated up in recent weeks. Bernie Sanders has closed the gap in polling in Iowa and nationa...
https://holdfastblog.com/2016/01/24/self-identification-primary-hostilities/