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FEATURING RT SAMUEL - South Asian literature has a long and prestigious reputation in the global literary world, bringing audiences the words of authors like Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh, and Arundhati Roy. But, rarely do we see literature tackling South Asia and India’s biggest social issue: caste, and particularly anti-caste justice. Even rarer, for global audiences, is the prevalence of speculative fiction focusing on that topic. 

A newly published groundbreaking anthology aiming to change that, is described as a collection of “weird, fantastic, supernatural, Dalit futurist, and magical realist fiction by writers from South Asia and the diaspora.”

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FEATURING MARIE BERRY - U.S. militarism has long been a global scourge, from the Afghanistan and Iraq wars to the financial and moral support of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, and beyond. While warmongers blast their vision for a lopsided imperialist colonialist world order where the U.S. reigns supreme, what if peacemakers articulated their own alternative vision?

A new “Feminist Peace Playbook” offers a transformative approach to U.S. foreign policy. 

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FEATURING LUIS J. RODRIGUEZ - President Donald Trump has claimed his administration could return Kilmar Ábrego García, the U.S. residing man who was illegally disappeared into El Salvador’s dangerous gulag, but that he is choosing not to. 

Trump has doubled down on the veracity of a photo claiming to show the initials MS-13 tattooed on Abrego Garcia’s hand even though the image looked clumsily edited. 

In the face of rampant deception about MS-13 and its dangers to U.S. residents, journalist and writer Luis Rodriguez aims to set the record straight. 

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FEATURING JULIA LUZ BETANCOURT - Student activists at U.S. universities all across the country continue to grapple not only with the escalating Israeli genocide in Gaza but with the Trump administration’s criminalization of their actions in support of the Palestinian right to exist. 

With a deportation order against Mahmoud Khalil, a key Columbia university activist and green card holder, the Trump administration has made clear that any opposition to Israeli domination will be interpreted as illegal, whether or not such opposition is protected by the U.S. Constitution. A new documentary, The Encampments, that has captured the public’s attention, is showing in theaters around the country and prominently features Khalil.

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FEATURING ARUN GUPTA - Although the fascism of the Trump administration is unprecedented in modern-day United States, there are lessons to be learned from earlier resistance movements. Seasoned activist and journalist Arun Gupta has identified ten organizing principles for defeating Trumpism in a new op-ed for YES! Media. 

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FEATURING FAVIANNA RODRIGUEZ - Donald Trump’s government has sent another contingent of people–Venezuelan and Salvadoran nationals–to El Salvador’s notorious gulag-like prison, this time claiming it’s a counter terrorism operation in order to get around legal challenges against using the Alien Enemies Act. 

Meanwhile, the Trump Administration admitted it mistakenly sent a Salvadoran man named Kilmar Abrego Garcia, with protected legal status, into the same prison and claimed it is not possible to arrange for his return back to the United States. Garcia is married to a U.S. citizen, has a 5-year old child and no criminal record. 

In the face of relentless news about the mass dehumanization of people of color and immigrants in the U.S., there is growing fatigue among Americans. But artist and activist Favianna Rodriguez has advice on how we can push through the burnout and move forward.

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FEATURING IMAN ABID - As Americans prepare to file their annual federal and state taxes, a group of activists has released a handy Not My Tax Dollars map where anyone can locate their state and city and learn how many federal tax dollars are diverted from their community’s needs to funding Israel’s apartheid and genocide in Palestine. 

The online interactive map is part of a major Tax Day of Action that pro-Palestinian activists are organizing on April 15, 2025. 

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FEATURING TYLER HACK - Hundreds of people gathered in Washington D.C. on Monday March 31, 2025 to mark Transgender Day of Visibility. This year, given the Trump Administration’s brazen attacks against the trans community, the day was an opportunity for people to push back and express resistance to fascist authoritarianism.

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FEATURING OWEN - The Trump administration has made the targeting of transgender people a central tenet of its approach to government. Soon after Donald Trump’s inauguration transgender American citizens who tried to renew their passports found that the government was insisting on misgendering them, identifying them by their biological sex at birth. Trump has also outright banned transgender troops from serving in the U.S. military and pulled federal funding from universities that allow transgender students from participating in athletics.

Such attacks have serious consequences, including influencing people once thought to be allies to trans-folks such as California Governor Gavin Newsom. Newsom has been interviewing rightwing pro-Trump white supremacists on his new podcast and declared his opposition to transgender athletes.

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