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..Let the past teach you. Past customs, struggles, leaders and thinkers. Let these help you. Let them inspire you, warn you, give you strength. But beware...What was cannot come again. To survive, know the past, let it touch you, then let the past go. - Octavia Butler , Earthseed Dear Resister, A half-century ago Resist came into being. On the heel of the Call to...

Amid turbulent times marked by instances of violence and racist rhetoric, Ignacio Acevedo sees positive change occurring. Acevedo, the lead organizer with Nobody Leaves Mid-Hudson, a Poughkeepsie organization that advocates for working-class people of color, said the Hudson Valley is experiencing a surge in activism among its minority groups. "After living here for 27 years, I don't think I've ever seen people of my community...

Dear Co-Conspirator, Co-conspirator - That's what we were branded as founders of Resist 50 years ago, when we wrote to our first supporters endorsing resistance to the Vietnam military draft. Today, I invite you to wear that brand with me by donating to Resist as we continue to resist immoral authority in all its shameful forms. Together through the years, we have demonstrated to the...

Areas that are changing economically often draw more police—creating conditions for more surveillance and more potential misconduct. In the early hours of Labor Day, Brooklynites woke up to the sound of steel-pan bands drumming along Flatbush Avenue, as hundreds of thousands of people gathered to celebrate J’ouvert, a roisterous Caribbean festival that commemorates emancipation from slavery. But having been marred by gang violence in recent...