Movements Rising

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.)