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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.

Photo of industrial site on a river, with smoke rising from smokestacks
Posted inRacial Justice

PFAS contamination and the scourge of cancer in Odawa nation

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.

Posted inPolitics and Movements: US

LDEQ draft permit rattles neighbors of hazardous waste disposal site

Frances Madeson by Frances Madeson March 28, 2023March 14, 2024
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.
Posted inPolitics and Movements: US

A New Orleans play aims to change the conversation on labor organizing

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.
Posted inEconomy and Inequality

At the Born Again Labor Museum, art is a weapon for the working class

Frances Madeson by Frances Madeson October 13, 2022March 18, 2024
Millie Wahl stands in solidarity with the "Native Nations Rise" march on Washington, DC, against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline in Portland, Oregon, on March 10, 2017.
Posted inClimate Crisis

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.
Posted inClimate Crisis

The fire that Wynn Bruce lit

Frances Madeson by Frances Madeson May 12, 2022March 20, 2024
Posted inPolitics and Movements: US

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

Frances Madeson by Frances Madeson March 25, 2022March 21, 2024
A woman holds a leafy twig as part of a protest for better working conditions for garment workers in Haiti
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‘We are not slaves!’: Haitian garment workers strike for a fair wage

Frances Madeson by Frances Madeson March 4, 2022March 21, 2024
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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
A statue of Mary and Jesus sits in front of a damaged mobile home in Ashland
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Hurricane Ida showed us the future of climate catastrophe. Mutual aid showed us a way out.

Frances Madeson by Frances Madeson November 10, 2021March 25, 2024

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