Rampant Magazine

14/11/2024

The left faces enormous challenges in the wake of the re-election of Donald Trump. Confronting the fascists will require opening paths of cooperation and cultivating a faith that working people can act collectively for ourselves.

01/10/2024

Chicago’s libraries are vibrant neighborhood centers of learning, rest, and community building. They could offer a glimpse of another kind of world, if we protect and support these spaces and the people who make them run.

26/04/2024

You can find Gerardo Marciano—devoted organizer for housing, migrant, q***r, and racial justice—shutting down streets in solidarity with Palestinians, helping to Free Heartland Kids, sharing community and vital supplies with unhoused neighbors and asylum seekers through Food Not Bombs, or keeping the Rogers Park Free Store open week after week. Here, in conversation with Andrew Holter, he offers a preview of the fascinating stories in his forthcoming memoir, Q***r Boy Magik.

An interview with an unstoppable organizer, Gerardo Marciano

25/04/2024

"The repression itself has played a major role in the rapid spread of the encampments across the country. The only way for administrators to “make the problem go away” is to divest from Israel."

The student Palestine solidarity movement has spread encampments to universities across the country, spurred on by repression. By refusing to back down, they are keeping the focus on the genocide in Gaza and the need to end it.

04/04/2024

Elbit Systems, the Israeli weapons manufacturer that has long marketed its weapons as “battle-tested” after deploying them on unarmed Palestinians, is coming to Chicago next week. Chicagoans will not be complicit in their war crimes.

01/04/2024

Donate to help Nour and Diaa and their family escape Israeli bombs, hunger, and disease in Gaza. Nour was interviewed a couple years ago in Rampant (https://rampantmag.com/2021/11/theres-no-such-thing-as-childhood-in-gaza-interview-with-a-palestinian-mother). They could use any help from those who are able!

https://www.gofundme.com/f/vxz5h-help-a-displaced-family-in-gaza

Like everyone in Gaza right now, Nour and Diaa al-Masry, and their children Karam, Ker… Kyle Gilbertson needs your support for Help a Displaced Family in Gaza

28/03/2024

“Terrorism” is a nebulous, racialized, and incoherent concept. Its use adds nothing to our political or ethical analysis, but rather functions as a political weapon in the hands of US empire.
A B-52 Bomber from the US Air Force dropping bombs.

“Terrorism” is a nebulous, racialized, and incoherent concept. Its use adds nothing to our political or ethical analysis, but rather functions as a political weapon in the hands of US empire.

07/03/2024

Today, Biden will deliver his State of the Union speech while the US backs mass murder and starvation in Gaza. Instead of watching Biden’s farce, hundreds of Chicagoans will refuse the humiliation of their Palestinian neighbors and stand vigil for Gaza.

27/02/2024

The Yemeni group Ansar Allah’s heroic humanitarian blockade of the Red Sea in solidarity with Palestine is exposing the decline of the US and UK empires. It also signals the coming of radically different futures.

The Yemeni group Ansar Allah’s heroic humanitarian blockade of the Red Sea in solidarity with Palestine is exposing the decline of US and UK empires. It also signals the coming of radically different futures.

30/01/2024

The US and other Western countries are pulling support from the vital international organization providing food and relief in Gaza, echoing centuries of colonialist genocide. We must recognize this famine for what it is in order to fight against it effectively.

12/01/2024

A century of U.S. Imperialism in Latin America has prompted both internal displacement and mass exodus of Colombians from their homeland, and this is what’s driving the influx of migrants to cities like Chicago.

30/11/2023

We can rejoice that we no longer live in a world with Henry Kissinger. But we are still living with his blood-soaked legacy, which has turned the entire world into an endless battlefield.

21/11/2023

Israel’s current massacre of Gaza is spawning a deep-seated solidarity with Palestine among a new generation around the globe. As we continue the solidarity struggle, we should understand the basics of Zionism, settler colonialism, imperialism and Palestinian resistance.

14/11/2023

The people of Chicago stand with Palestine against Israel’s US-backed genocide, even if our elected representatives will not.

23/10/2023

Hundreds of activists and organizers from a wide spectrum of struggles express solidarity with Palestine.

23/10/2023

Jewish Voice for Peace Chicago condemns City Council for passing a resolution in support of Israel.

Jewish Progressives Condemn City Council for Passing Resolution in Support of Israel

19/10/2023

A member of Jewish Voice for Peace in Chicago argues for our responsibility not to stay silent in this historic moment of active genocide against Gaza.

17/10/2023

A six-year-old Palestinian American child was murdered. A bloodthirsty media atmosphere and Chicago City Council’s pro-Israel resolution bear responsibility for dehumanizing Palestinians and normalizing calls for genocide.