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Frances Madeson writes about liberation struggles and the arts that inspire them. She is the author of the comic political novel Cooperative Village. Follow her on Twitter @FrancesMadeson.

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Frances Madeson by Frances Madeson May 9, 2023May 9, 2023

Members of the Odawa nation are among the hardest hit by PFAS pollution in the state, and are at the forefront of solutions for clean water and air for all.

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LDEQ draft permit rattles neighbors of hazardous waste disposal site

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April Louise as Christine Williams (left), KC Simms as Isaac Richardson (center), and Alexandra Miles as Annette Williams (right), in the Jacona family's bar and grocery, the main place of gathering in the immersive play "The Family Line," which is set during an 1892 general strike in New Orleans. Photo by Joshua Brasted.
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Frances Madeson by Frances Madeson March 2, 2023March 14, 2024
Members of the Southern Illinois University Young Democratic Socialists of America and other organizers make abortion rights protest signs and banners at the Born Again Labor Museam in Carbondale, Illinois, in May 2022.
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At the Born Again Labor Museum, art is a weapon for the working class

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The feds are using terrorism charges against water protectors

Frances Madeson by Frances Madeson July 6, 2022July 6, 2022
A person holds a sign during a vigil at the Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C. on April 29, 2022, for environmental activist Wynn Alan Bruce, who self-immolated at the Supreme Court the week prior to bring attention to the climate crisis. Photo by Bryan Olin Dozier/NurPhoto via Reuters. On the right: Northern Arapaho Two-spirit person, Big Wind, chants into a megaphone to a crowd at a water protectors demonstration at the Two Inlets pump station near Park Rapids, Minnesota, on June 8, 2021. Photo credit: The Ginew Collective.
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The fire that Wynn Bruce lit

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Organize, don’t agonize, says Cooperation Jackson’s Kali Akuno

Frances Madeson by Frances Madeson March 25, 2022March 21, 2024
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‘We are not slaves!’: Haitian garment workers strike for a fair wage

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‘Mama Glo,’ Louisiana’s longest held female prisoner, finally walks free

Frances Madeson by Frances Madeson February 8, 2022March 21, 2024
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Hurricane Ida showed us the future of climate catastrophe. Mutual aid showed us a way out.

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