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Trump's administration promises policies that will expand the income inequality. But a few glimmers of hope are emerging at the local level.
"I arrived at Standing Rock in the very last days of May. The life that we have built here has taught many how to live a large-scale sustainable, decolonized, anti-capitalist lifestyle."
(Image: Lauren Walker / Truthout; Adapted: Gage Skidmore, Dan Simpson, Alisdare Hickson, Dark Sevier)
2016 often felt hopeless, but it also saw some of the fiercest resilience on display. While the dominant media focused on demagogues, people on the margins found a powerful voice in uprisings against police violence, a national prison strike and Native resistance to the Dakota Access pipeline, among other struggles.
Radical comic book artist Seth Tobocman's 1999 epic War in the Neighborhood has just been re-released. In this Truthout interview, Tobocman discusses art and resistance; gentrification; squatting; self-governing; Black Lives Matter; and using organizing, direct action and mutual aid for housing rights.
There can be no hope of real and meaningful progress on tackling climate change, without a major commitment to North-South cooperation based upon a fairer sharing of global resources. The simple truth is unavoidable, but time is running out before the world finally embraces its momentous implications.









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