How We’ve Resisted ICE: Street Lessons From Chicago

“I cannot imagine doing anything else in this moment,” says community defense organizer Gabe Gonzalez.

Must-Reads and Some Notes on Taking Action and Staying Whole in 2026

As we close out a year of crisis and courage, I’m thinking about what sustains us — and what comes next.

You Can’t Fight Fascism While Defunding Libraries

“Libraries embody everything that we need right now to fight back against fascism," says Sara Heymann.

Fascism at the Door, Neighbors in the Street: Abolition in Practice

“I think a lot of us could level up our skills,” says researcher Tamara Nopper.

What Now, Chicago? Regrouping After Midway Blitz

Let’s make this a winter of fortification, of learning, and bonding together like the winter snow that federal agents are so afraid of.

Burnout Is Not Inevitable: Building Movements That Can Hold Us

“Care really should be at the center of our strategy, of our analysis, and of our practice,” says Aaron Goggans.

In Chicago, We Run Toward Danger Together

"Faced with unrelenting state violence, Chicagoans have refused to be cowed," says Mariame Kaba.

Resisting ICE, Building Worlds: Care and Survival in Fascistic Times

“It’s all hands on deck and we have to fight. This is the only way,” says Leanne Betasamosake Simpson.

We Have to Move

"There are living, breathing people all around you who need your sense of decency to be made material. Don’t give up on them, or on you."

Making Things Together: Zines, Strategy, and Survival

“We're going to need a lot more in-person opportunities for us to expand our humanity,” says organizer Mariame Kaba.

They Came for Our Neighbors. We Showed Up.

Before long, there were dozens, and then hundreds of people in the streets, watching and responding. 

The Emergency Is the Atmosphere

“It’s meant to exhaust us. It’s meant to destroy us."