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Topic: Clare Bayard

Going To Places That Scare Me: Personal Reflections On Challenging Male Supremacy

Part I: “How can I be sexist? I’m an anarchist!” “What do you mean I’m sexist?” I was shocked. I wasn’t a jock, I didn’t hate women, I wasn’t an evil person. “But how can I be a sexist, I’m … Continue reading

Justice, from Iraq to S.F.

MARCH 20, 2003: thousands of antiwar activists and organizers shut down downtown San Francisco to protest the invasion of Iraq. Sept. 16, 2003: many of the same people celebrated as a year and a half of hard work and organizing … Continue reading

Anti-Racism for Global Justice: An Activist Forum

Left Turn as a network, and later a magazine, was born out of the World Trade Organization (WTO) protests that took place in Seattle during the fall of 1999. In the aftermath of those protests, a long time Chicana activist … Continue reading

Anti-Racism for Collective Liberation: An Interview with the Catalyst Project

On January 28th the Catalyst Project came to University of California, Santa Cruz to facilitate a day-long workshop titled, “Anti-Racism for Collective Liberation.” The workshop was designed as a way for white social justice activists, from a variety of organizations … Continue reading

Justice and Survival: A Forum on Building Movements to Stop War

At the National Conference on Organized Resistance in Washington D.C. Catalyst Project brought together anti-war organizers to share their thinking on movement strategy. Max Elbaum, a former leader in Students for a Democratic Society in the 1960s and a current … Continue reading