• Human Rights • Resistance • Safety • Threat Management

    The DC Night Patrols Are Showing Cities How to Fight Trump’s Occupation

    Dave Zirin and Chuck Modiano

    The Nation

    With only their cell phones, medical kits, and the confidence to assert their rights, volunteer night patrols follow and record the armed troops who have taken over the capital.

    Published On: 08/29/2025

  • Democracy • Resistance • Safety

    It’s Time for Americans to Start Talking About “Soft Secession”

    Chris Armitage

    The Existential Republic

    Blue states are finally learning what red states have known all along: you don’t need federal permission to govern.

    Published On: 08/19/2025

  • Cyber Security • Europe • Featured • Journalism • Original • Press Freedom • Resistance • Safety • Social Media • Threat Management

    The Resistance Will Be Reported

    Ron Williams

    Resistance Media

    The environment for press freedom in the United States is entering a perilous new phase. The attacks have been unprecedented, widespread and continue to escalate.

    Published On: 07/24/2025

  • Human Rights • Safety • Violence

    As mass starvation spreads across Gaza, our colleagues and communities we work with are wasting away

    Doctors Without Borders

    Doctors Without Borders

    An aid worker providing psychosocial support spoke of the devastating impact on children: “Children tell their parents they want to go to heaven, because at least heaven has food.”

    Published On: 07/23/2025

  • Democracy • Human Rights • Legal • Safety

    The Architecture of Fear: How Detention Becomes a Template for Control

    James B. Greenberg

    James's Substack

    Once in place, the system doesn’t sit idle. It seeks new uses.

    Published On: 07/16/2025

  • Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom • Safety

    CPJ outraged at ICE refusal of judge’s order to release journalist Mario Guevara

    Committee to Protect Journalists

    Committee to Protect Journalists

    The Spanish-language reporter is currently the only journalist in custody in the U.S. whose arrest was in relation to their work.

    Published On: 07/02/2025

  • Legal • Safety

    Trump attacks on NRC independence pose health, safety risks

    Edwin Lyman

    Utility Dive

    The exodus of key personnel at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission will jeopardize its ability to oversee the nuclear power fleet and slow the licensing of new facilities to a crawl.

    Published On: 06/30/2025

  • Canada • Exile • Global • Human Rights • Original • Safety

    Out of Harm’s Way

    Ron Williams

    Resistance Media

    As the United States descends more deeply into an authoritarian nightmare, individuals and families are considering the once unthinkable: stay and risk persecution or uproot their lives for another state or country.

    Published On: 06/21/2025

  • Democracy • Human Rights • Safety • Violence

    ICE Believes it will Never Face Accountability Again

    Garrett Graff

    Doomsday Scenario

    The Trump administration is letting an unaccountable secret police form at the heart of our democracy.

    Published On: 06/20/2025

  • Canada • Exile • Featured • Resistance • Safety

    Why a Professor of Fascism Left the US

    Jonathan Freedland

    The Guardian

    Marci Shore made news around the world when her family moved to Canada. She discusses Trump, teaching history and how terror atomises society

    Published On: 06/16/2025

  • Recommended • Safety • Threat Management

    Trump’s Nuclear Power Obsession

    Karl Grossman and Harvey Wasserman

    CounterPunch

    Yet while prices and production times for renewable sources plummet, Trump and his anti-green minions have been vigorously assaulting the wind, solar and other green energy technologies.

    Published On: 06/06/2025

  • Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom • Recommended • Safety

    Committee to Protect Journalists: Safety Kit

    CPJ

    Committee to Protect Journalists

    Journalists should consider the following digital and physical safety advice to help better protect themselves.

    Published On: 06/03/2025

  • Canada • Exile • Safety

    The Case Against Leaving Trump’s America

    Ross Barkan

    New York Magazine

    Fleeing is a cheap, ego-flattering maneuver; it helps no one. This is not the late Weimar period or Nazi Germany.

    Published On: 05/21/2025

  • Featured • Recommended • Resistance • Safety

    Staying with the Trouble

    Rebecca Solnit

    Meditations in an Emergency

    Some leave authoritarian regimes because of persecution. But some leave to fight from out of reach of the regime, and examples abound including from occupied France during the Second World War and Latin American countries ruled by dictators in the 1970s and 1980s.

    Published On: 05/20/2025

  • Press Freedom • Safety

    A Russian journalist’s escape from Moscow to Paris

    RSF

    Reporters Without Borders

    Exhausted but free, Ekaterina Barabash recounted her escape from the Russian authorities, who put her on their wanted list as she faced up to ten years in prison.

    Published On: 05/05/2025

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