Movements Rising

(NOTE: this page has not been updated since 2019)
We understand the 1999 Seattle shutdown as one link in an intergenerational chain of struggles for liberation. Today, we take heart from many movements rising, including:

• • Idle No More, the fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline, and many other manifestations of Indigenous sovereignty 

  • the Movement for Black Lives, carrying on the visionary long Black freedom struggle

  • the migrant justice movement, challenging detention centers and borders

  • the Southern Movement Assembly, organizing for community and movement governance in the U.S. South

  • the climate justice movement with its growing strikes and mass direct action

  • struggles for gender self-determination, including trans and intersex organizing

  • bottom-up labor organizing, catalyzing strike waves and a renewed culture of solidarity

  • disability justice formations, building structures for mutual aid and transforming culture

  • feminism of the 99%, propelling a new cycle of struggle against hetero-patriarchy

  • the movement against the prison industrial complex, challenging carceral institutions and building alternatives for community safety

  • movements exploding across the globe, from Chile to Lebanon

(This list of course is not comprehensive and offers only a sample of people's movements rising around the globe.)