Nicholas Powers

Sep 14, 2024 | truthout.org | Nicholas Powers

What Would It Mean If the Harris Campaign Centered Black Women’s Health? Black women are bedrock of the Democratic Party. What would it look like if their needs and lives were made central too? ByNicholas Powers, TruthoutPublishedSeptember 14, 2024Hajime White, exhausted from planning and executing a ceremony for mothers and their young children, snuggles with her grandson at the Warren Housing Authority on March 23, 2024, in Warren, Arkansas.

Jun 19, 2024 | truthout.org | Nicholas Powers

Transport yourself back into the past, to the year 1865. What if you had been a slave? You had seen friends and family sold. You had been whipped and worked to exhaustion. Every day was a nightmare. Now, a Union army officer, Major General Gordon Granger, arrives in Galveston, Texas, and issues a proclamation that ends slavery. Imagine that joy. Cheers erupt. Newly freed men and women embrace. Hats are thrown into the air. On a hot June 19 in Texas, Juneteenth is born.

Jun 8, 2024 | truthout.org | Nicholas Powers

“Down, down with the occupation!”In May, students at The New School danced with a large Palestinian flag. They banged buckets. They called for an end to Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. Democracy Now! interviewed a professor who said, “I teach a class on decolonization, and there is no better way to put into place the knowledge that students learn in our classrooms into practice.”Protests at colleges erupted across the U.S. Students set up tents in hallways and quads.

Apr 22, 2024 | truthout.org | Nicholas Powers

Carrying a rifle, a young Indigenous man searches the Amazon forest for illegal loggers, followed by a crew from the 2023 documentary film We Are Guardians. Five thousand miles away, youth from Just Stop Oil throw soup on the painting “Sunflowers” by Vincent Van Gogh at the National Gallery in London in 2022. They yell as reporters film them, “What is more important?

Apr 3, 2024 | truthout.org | Nicholas Powers

Suppose 53 million low wage workers across the United States seized control of politics. See the hotel maids washing bedsheets and migrants in blood-splattered aprons at meat plants mobilizing for their interests. See baggy-eyed nurses and fast-food staff take part in mass uprisings. Now imagine millions of poor people standing in long lines to vote. America would marvel at this sleeping giant, now awake. The Poor People’s Campaign, an anti-poverty protest and now voter drive movement led by Rev.