• Global • Safety

    Have things reached the point where it’s time to leave the U.S.?

    David Kirp

    San Francisco Chronicle

    No one, except perhaps the authors of Project 2025, could have predicted that the so-called guardrails of democracy were made of papier-mâché, that this country could so quickly be teetering on the precipice of autocracy.

    Published On: 04/12/2025

  • Democracy • Safety

    Disposable People: We Are Not Safe

    Critical Resistance

    Critical Resistance

    The Trump administration is quietly creating offshore detention, disappearance, and exile—and Americans could soon be next.

    Published On: 04/11/2025

  • Canada • Democracy • Exile • Safety

    Be a Patriot

    George Packer

    The Atlantic

    Fleeing America before you are threatened is a lot like obeying in advance.

    Published On: 04/10/2025

  • Europe • Exile • Global • Safety

    Americans in Race for European Residency

    Alice Kantor

    Bloomberg

    The rush to secure passports and visas comes as many countries tighten immigration rules.

    Published On: 03/19/2025

  • Canada • Safety

    American family seeks asylum in Canada, citing Trump

    Dalson Chen and Jacob Barker

    CBC News

    A family from Illinois is anxiously awaiting a decision from a Canadian tribunal as they seek asylum north of the border, claiming that America's politics have made them feel unsafe. Kaitlyn and Ted Berg say they made the recent decision to uproot their children as they witnessed the fallout of November's presidential election.

    Published On: 03/11/2025

  • Safety • Threat Management

    Mutual Aid

    SCOT NAKAGAWA

    The Anti-Authoritarian Playbook

    Mutual aid is a form of collective care in which communities come together to share resources, provide for one another’s needs, and build systems of support independent of the state or corporate entities.

    Published On: 03/10/2025

  • Safety • Threat Management

    Taking Heart

    Robert Reich

    Robert Reich Substack

    A few people I know are coping by remaining in denial. They continue to normalize what’s happening in the familiar terms of Republican versus Democrat, right versus left, conservative versus liberal or progressive.

    Published On: 03/09/2025

  • Disinformation • Safety

    How MAHA Poisons the Food Movement

    Tom Philpott

    Mother Jones

    RFK Jr. could make legitimate critiques of the ways we grow and process food appear crackpot.

    Published On: 03/04/2025

  • Democracy • Human Rights • Safety

    We Each Have a Nazi in Us

    Gabor Mate

    The Guardian

    We need to understand the psychological roots of authoritarianism

    Published On: 09/06/2024

  • Safety • Threat Management

    Iran’s AI Assault on Women

    Rachel George

    Council on Foreign Relations

    Iran and other countries in the Middle East are increasingly using artificial intelligence as a tool to crackdown on women's rights.

    Published On: 12/07/2023

  • Journalism • Press Freedom • Safety

    Equally Safe

    Jennifer Robinson, Dr Keina Yoshida

    Article 19

    What might a feminist approach to the protection of journalists look like? What concrete benefits might it bring? And could it provide solutions to the well-documented – and highly gendered – abuse that women journalists face every day?

    Published On: 05/03/2022

  • Safety

    Nonviolent resistance proves potent weapon

    Michelle Nicholasen

    The Harvard Gazette

    Erica Chenoweth discovers it is more successful in effecting change than violent campaigns

    Published On: 02/04/2019

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