Zeta Violet Koloskzi 
Crossing the road seems scary when you’re a kid. But once you know to look both ways and wait for traffic to stop, it’s just another barrier you can walk past. Once you have the language to articulate how to cross a road, it isn’t so scary. Don’t be a chicken.
A mix of nostalgia and persistent rooting for a character clearly has a powerful effect on our worldview. When media persistently tells us to root for something, it affects us. This is true for cartoons, but more ominously, it’s true for politics as well.
The revolution isn’t an action-packed thrill ride like in video games. It’s a long, slow process where one class builds itself up. And that begins with how we treat each other.
One of the most revolutionary things we can do right now is speak truth to power. Whenever we see someone speaking truth where the media lies we can see the revolution taking shape.
For every Darth Vader there’s a Luke Skywalker, for every Sauron there’s a Frodo Baggins, for every Skynet there’s an entire resistance ready to challenge it.
Real Progressives is holding a five-week book club on Lenin’s State and Revolution. We encourage those who have not read the book to join us. We also invite those who have already read it to come, not only to study it further, but to help those of us still struggling to learn.
A guerrilla war has three phases: mobility, equilibrium, and overtaking. The Lord of the Rings film trilogy perfectly mirrors these stages.
Are movies being made as artistic expressions of human creativity—or just because they’ll make money?
What do spiders and capitalism have in common? Fear, perception, and media shape our understanding of the world, from arachnophobia to class warfare.
Don’t cross the picket line when there’s a labor dispute. And if you have the opportunity, give a striking worker a sandwich.
