Tag: politics
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Introducing the Apocalyptic Optimist Podcast:
Real talk about what’s broken and how to fix it. The Apocalyptic Optimist Podcast is LIVE! In the first episode, I speak with Rachel Carmona and Tamika Middleton from Women’s March about the Free America Walkout and what’s next for Resistance 2.0. For details on how to watch or listen to the conversation, go here.…
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Resistance 2.0 Pushes Back
This weekend, I published a piece in The Guardian that discusses how activists participating in the Resistance to the second Trump Administration are getting more confrontational. In it, I discuss data collected from participants in the Free America Walkout on January 20th that shows how Resisters (yes, most participants in the walkout continued the trend…
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Remaining Awake through this Social Revolution
Lessons from MLK that can help guide us in these precarious times: In honor of Dr. King, I want to talk today about one of his lesser known speeches: a commencement address he delivered at Oberlin College in June 1965 (so over 60 years ago). The title of the address is “Remaining Awake Through a…
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Will Winter 2026 Be Like Summer 2020?
On Wednesday, January 7th, 37-year-old Renee Nicole Macklin Good was shot in the head by an ICE agent less than a mile from where George Floyd was killed by police in 2020. While the details of the shooting are still coming out, videos by bystanders from various angles contradict claims made by members of the…
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What’s on my Radar for 2026:
What apocalyptic optimists need to be thinking about as the new year begins
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NoKings 2.0 Brings Joyful Resistance Across the US
On October 18th, a coalition of left-leaning political groups coordinated a second national day-of-action to declare that the US has No Kings. Almost 3,000 events took place across the US during this second NoKings Day, with early estimates predicting that over 5 million people had joined the day of action in the US (with many…
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What We Learned Studying the #NoKings Day Across the US
One of the challenges of studying protest in this era of distributed activism is that it’s extremely difficult to get a decent sample of who is participating across sites. When my team surveys at a large-scale protest event, like the Women’s March in Washington, DC in January 2017, we are only able to generalize our…
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Will the Resistance Rise Again?
That’s the question that journalists have been asking me since November 5th. We are about to enter the weekend before the inauguration and young people have been causing trouble from Los Angeles to Washington, DC (while the wildfires continue to burn). This weekend, the People’s March will coordinate over 200 marches across the US on…
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Waking Up In Trump’s America 2.0
On the day after the 2016 election, I published a reflection at HuffPost. “Waking Up In Trump’s America And Watching The Ocean Rise” looked at the climate consequences of what candidate Trump had promised. Since I’m still processing the outcome from last night (Trump was just announced as the 47th President of the US 7…
Dana R Fisher 