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How to Expand Resistance and Build Solidarity?
As Trump’s second term continues (we are currently only 1 year and 4 months into his 4-year term), we are seeing continued resistance to the administration and its policies. There have been a series of days of action that have turned out millions of Americans to march and chant in peaceful protest (most recently in…
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Americans Flex their Economic Muscles at May Day Strong
Yesterday, on May 1st, a broad coalition of progressive groups and unions participated in May Day Strong to show their strength “with many refusing business as usual through No School. No Work. No Shopping.” Working with the organizing coalition, my team surveyed hosts who were coordinating events and participants who registered to participate through a…
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How to Build Power through a General Strike
This coming Friday, the May Day Strong coalition (which includes over two hundred progressive groups and unions) is calling for “workers, students, and families [to] rally, march, and take action across the country to demand a nation that puts workers over billionaires, with many refusing business as usual through No School. No Work. No Shopping.”…
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Dispatches from TED2026
I was invited to TED2026 as part of their ‘Democracy Delegation’ this past week. Even though I gave a TEDTalk in 2024 at TED Countdown in Brussels, I was not prepared for the abundance of ideas and absolute overwhelm that are the hallmarks of a week-long TED conference. In contrast to the climate-focused Countdown, talks on…
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What Every Activist Should Know
On Monday, I participated in a conversation about the efforts by the Trump Administration to label peaceful activists as domestic terrorists at the New York Society for Ethical Culture. The conversation included a number of activists who have experienced repression from the Administration first hand along with civil rights lawyer Ronald L. Kuby and Senior…
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Anti-War Sentiment Surges at No Kings 3
Yesterday, millions of people across the US participated in over 3000 events as part of the third No Kings Day. My team and I collected surveys from 198 people who were randomly selected from the thousands who assembled for the No Kings 3 event in Washington, DC, which was organized by the local group FreeDC.…
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Are We Expecting Too Much of No Kings 3?
Obsessing over magic numbers won’t save us; we have to save ourselves. Next weekend–on March 28th–the third No Kings Day will take place across the US. Organizers have been sharing this amazing map of the more-than-3000 planned events that have been scheduled for the day (the image below is from their website on 3/19). Like…
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What I learned studying the social consequences of the LA Wildfires
This week, my paper on wildfire displacement (co-authored with Julie Gonzalez) was published at Environmental Research Climate. The paper summarizes our efforts to understand the social consequences of wildfires after the LA Wildfires in January 2025. Our goal was to study the ways that people personally and collectively experience the effects of wildfire and what…
Dana R Fisher 