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The Spanish Civil War, 1936-39, was a pivotal moment in the 20th century history of revolutionary hope, failure and betrayal. It is also the story of fascism’s rise and ultimately the beginning of World War II. Join us for a book talk and discussion with the author of The POUM: Republic, Revolution and Counterrevolution (2025).

When: Sunday, January 25, 2026 at 1:00 pm Eastern Standard Time

Where: Online, Zoom

How: Register for the event here.

Speakers

Andy Durgan, author of a newly translated book on the Party of Marxist Unification (POUM), will outline the development of this distinctive revolutionary movement and the role it played in the Spanish revolution.

Following Durgan’s presentation there will be time for discussion.

Opinions expressed in signed articles do not necessarily represent the views of the editors or the Tempest Collective. For more information, see “About Tempest Collective.”
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Grace Livingstone charts a centuries-old norm of land grabs and bloody intervention and asks: what’s next for Venezuela?

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As disastrous floods hit central Queensland, 23 coal mines dumped an estimated 82 billion litres of wastewater – equivalent to 32,812 Olympic swimming pools – into the Fitzroy Basin in just 10 days.

At the Eastern Band of Cherokee Tribal Council meeting on January 8, 2026, the Council read and unanimously passed a historic resolution affirming the rights of the stream system in the Great Smoky Mountains, known to the Cherokee as “the Longperson”. 

The Council chamber, an intimate wood-planked room with a horseshoe-shaped table of Council members, was filled with a long line of young Cherokee women representing the NAIWA Daughters (North American Indian Women’s Association). They stood before the podium, ready to testify in support of the resolution they had written to bring before the Council.

Holding two handmade traditional pottery vessels, the young women reminded the Council that the water of the Longperson was one of their relatives. “Before we begin, we wanted to acknowledge that we cannot have this discussion without our relative, Longperson, present. Held in two vessels created by the hands of two beloved women, these waters were borrowed from the headwaters in the National Park, and will be returned to the Oconaluftee River in a water ceremony following the session.”

The youth spoke about the challenges of witnessing the simultaneous erosion of culture and the decimation of the natural world. Jasmine Smith, NAIWA Daughter Co-Founder and Chairwoman, urged the Council to vote on the resolution and to trust the youth, who understand what is at stake. She encouraged them to vote with future generations in mind — those who will look back and wonder how their Ancestors treated the water system: as property or as something sacred.

Zailiana Blythe, from NAIWA Daughters, speaks to the Council at the podium.

“Our Ancestors knew that the land and the water are not resources. They are ancient relatives. They understood that when the river suffers, our people suffer. When the land is harmed, our nation is harmed. They understood that without the sacred balance that sustained them, without our land, who are we as Cherokee people? When we forget the land, we forget ourselves. But we stand here today because we refuse to let our people forget. Our Ancestors fought for these places. They protected them. They advocated long before advocacy had a name. They stood beside these rivers and called them Longperson. They prayed for us before we existed. And when we speak today, we do not speak alone. We speak with the fire of every Ancestor who has walked before us. We speak with the strength carried in our DNA. Because this resolution is not just policy.
It is an act of remembering who we are as Cherokee people in a commitment to protect what our Ancestors entrusted to us.”

Kyndra Postoak, Rights of Nature Project Lead for NAIWA Daughters, asked “Do we see nature as something we own, or do we view it as something we have the responsibility to protect?” This question to the Council summarized one reason the rights of nature movement is gaining momentum across the globe, as humanity grapples with the disastrous outcomes of treating nature as property.

To many attendees, the Council meeting was a testament to the power of youth organizing with a vision for a new legal paradigm—one where Nature is represented by humans who affirm and guard her rights to survive and thrive once again.

Elk Wade in Oconaluftee River in the Smoky Mountains (photo: Kelly vanDellen)

The Longperson stream system in the Great Smoky Mountains is the longest river system east of the Mississippi and permeates the ancestral territory of the Eastern Band of Cherokee people. The relationship between the Cherokee people and the river system is as old as the river itself. The resolution codifies the relationship of reciprocity between the Cherokee and its water relative, while affirming the tribal nation’s sovereignty and the Rights of the Longperson.

The rights of nature resolution is significant for the vast scale of the ecosystem it aims to protect and for the youth of the advocates who are bringing this legal framework to life. The resolution acknowledges the Longperson as having five rights:

1. The right to exist, persist, and regenerate its vital cycles, structures, functions, and processes free from negative human disturbance, alteration, or destruction.
2. The right to maintain and restore its natural state and integrity, including the right to be free from pollution, contamination, non-native invasive species, and other environmental degradation.
3. The right to serve as a home and habitat for non-human relatives, consistent with the ecological relationships established through time.
4. The right to access and maintain free-flowing conditions, including protection from damming, obstruction, or any alteration that impedes the natural flow of water. 
5. The right to be protected by the Eastern Band of Cherokee under the laws, customs, and traditions of the Eastern Band of Cherokee, and to have its rights enforced by the appropriate authorities.

Guided by Elders, Native American Youth are Rewriting America’s Legal Future

This is the second rights of nature resolution drafted and introduced by high school and middle school students. In 2023, a Mashpee Wampanoag youth group, named the Mashpee Native Environmental Ambassadors, presented a Rights of the Herring Resolution, which their Council passed unanimously. This resolution calls for the Tribal Nation to restore and indigenize the streams in Mashpee to ensure the herring’s survival. 

Representatives from the NAIWA Daughters of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI) were inspired by Mashpee’s work and felt a similar affection for the Tsuwa (Eastern Hellbender Salamander) as the Mashpee felt for the herring. Initially, NAIWA Daughters advocated for Tsuwa rights and protections within the U.S. federal system to secure endangered species status. After consulting with elders and cultural leaders in their community, they decided to turn to their tribal nation’s system to ensure success. In alignment with community support, NAIWA Daughters determined that the foundational EBCI rights of nature resolution should focus on the foundational relative:water. The Longperson’s waters sustain the entire ecosystem that supports not only the Tsuwa, but also all their human and non-human relatives.

In her testimony, NAIWA Daughter Kyndra Postoak stated: “Nature has intrinsic value. Every river, forest, mountain, and creature has a right to exist in balance and dignity. Humans are a part of that balance, not above it. Our communities, culture, and lives depend on healthy, thriving ecosystems. Protecting nature means protecting our children’s future, our identities, and the traditions rooted in the land. This belief is reflected in the work of NAIWA daughters, who actively stand up for the protection of waterways through advocacy, education, and community action. 

“We work to defend rivers and streams from pollution and misuse, recognizing water as a living relative rather than something to be owned or exploited. These young ladies’ efforts highlight the deep cultural and spiritual connection between water and Indigenous communities, reminding us that clean, protected waterways are essential not only for ecosystems but for human life, health, and heritage as well. By embracing the rights of nature, we commit to stewardship, to nurture, defend, and restore our relationship with the land and water rather than exploiting or destroying them. The works of groups like NAIWA Daughters show that protecting nature is not just an environmental responsibility, but a moral one. It is an act of respect, persistence, and hope for future generations who deserve a world where rivers still flow clean, and life remains in balance.”

This resolution for the rights of nature wasn’t created overnight. For 18 months, the NAIWA Daughters held community consultation dinners to gather feedback and learn from elders. They tabled at Cherokee events and conducted input surveys to stand beside their resolution. The young women advocated, door-to-door, with Council members to share the heart and purpose of their resolution. When a tribal election occurred, they repeated the process all over again. They gained the support of several Tribal Council members and collaborated with organizations advancing rights of nature policies. They also conducted cleanups and water ceremonies across the country and held sessions with native and non-native allies, culminating in the Council work session to ensure full Council support.

Unanimous Vote for the Rights of the Longperson 

When item 18 came up on the docket on January 8th, the entire room recognized the immense heart, soul, and effort the young women had invested in the law and its historic implications. Attendees commented that the room was hot and heavy when the NAIWA daughters gave their testimony. Some said they could feel the presence of Ancestors in the room.

Watch the Council meeting and the passing of the resolution. Youth testimony starts at 2:50, item number 18.

The Council unanimously voted yes with a standing vote and a round of applause. The NAIWA Daughters presented them with gifts of gratitude, shirts and stickers that proudly read “Water Protector” in Cherokee and English across the front.

Drawing on ancestral teachings and a history predating the establishment of the U.S., the young advocates reminded everyone in the Council chamber that passing the resolution helps to revitalize Indigenous law and order—a legal model in which nature is regarded as relative and protected from harm.

Grant Wilson, Executive Director of the Earth Law Center, celebrated the Council’s vote. “This historic resolution holds a mirror to the Cherokee understanding that the Longperson is a sacred, living relative — not mere property — and translates this relationship into a powerful legal framework. The Rights of the Longperson is also another profound example of how Indigenous youth and women are leading the way toward the Rights of Nature and intergenerational justice worldwide… As the global community increasingly recognizes Nature’s rights —now established in hundreds of jurisdictions worldwide — those with the deepest cultural and spiritual connections to the land are often the ones best equipped to give Nature a voice.”

Casey Camp Horinek is an elder of the Ponca Nation of Oklahoma, and advisor to Movement Rights, an organization advocating for the rights of nature movement. She thanked the Eastern Band of Cherokee for upholding their traditional ways and for the care they have taken of the Longperson since time immemorial. “We believe this resolution will only strengthen your leadership and guardianship for generations to come. As you may know, owing to global Indigenous leadership, the Rights of Nature is now the fastest-growing environmental justice movement worldwide, with laws in over 40 countries. In passing this resolution, the Eastern Band of Cherokee will join a growing number of Indigenous peoples leading a profound shift in our collective human relationship with the natural world. “

The NAIWA Daughters were clear that they will not let their efforts end with this resolution. They are working with the Tribal Council to create a task force to assess the river’s health and lead policy initiatives that implement the spirit and purpose of this resolution as binding code and law.

They will share their story and efforts to advance the Rights of Nature movement in Indian Country by presenting their work at the next National NAIWA Daughters convergence. Their goal is to inspire Indigenous young women leaders across Turtle Island. Jasmine Smith, Chair of the EBCI NAIWA Daughters, will also be speaking at the 2026 Bioneers Conference Indigenous Forum.

To follow the NAIWA Daughters’ work, you can follow them on Facebook. Contact them at naiwadaughters@gmail.com 

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The ICE invasion of Chicago – code name Operation Midway Blitz – began in early September 2025 and officially lasted two months. During that time federal agents carried out mass arrests, snatched people off the streets, terrorized neighborhoods and tear gassed communities and even the Chicago Police. They also generated mass resistance from ordinary people – turns out, most people don’t like it when their neighbors are disappeared.

Resistance took many forms – know your rights trainings, formation of neighborhood rapid response committees, protests at a notorious immigration detention center and immigration court, door knocking to educate and recruit, protecting schools and school-children, protesting at hotels and rental car companies used by ICE, community alert whistles and direct confrontation. 

Immigrants rights activists in Chicago knew that this was coming and organized an education blitz in immigrant neighborhoods months before ICE’s invasion. As Midway Blitz progressed, lessons were learned and tactics were refined. As ICE kidnapped, shot, gassed and brutalized, more and more people questioned why ICE could get away with this kind of terror in a sanctuary city and state. 

Of the many thousands of ordinary Chicagoans who joined ICE watch groups, many of them had never been active in social movements before and learned as they organized. Entire neighborhoods mobilized for street protests when alerted that ICE was harassing neighbors. Unionized school workers stood up to federal agents and refused to let their students or their parents be kidnapped. Chicago was warned by Trump to expect a deployment of National Guard troops to protect ICE from the citizens of the city. This threat didn’t materialize and was blocked in the courts.

Although immigration raids have never ended in Chicago, Homeland Security is expected to return in force in the spring. As ICE continues to recruit, uses ever-more aggressive tactics, and raids expand in other cities, these lessons feel urgent. Here we gather a few of the voices of activists from this resistance, both new and veteran. Tempest Collective members in Chicago believe that compiling these compelling oral histories of ICE resistance in our city will serve our movement everywhere as we reflect, learn, and grow together.

Eric Ruder interviews Hongmin

Hongmin has been a volunteer at the Chinatown/Bridgeport rapid response team since September, 2025. Eric Ruder is a longtime socialist in Chicago.

ER: So you’ve been out monitoring ICE activity around Chinatown and Pilsen. What are some of your observations?

H: I can summarize the work I do. I canvas every weekend in the Bridgeport and Chinatown area to residents. And this week we’re doing business canvassing. And other than that, I am also trained for rapid response, but because I don’t have a car, I’m never rapid enough to get on the scene where ICE is detaining people. I have also helped out in the Southwest area with their canvassing once—a few weeks ago when things were particularly bad. And then other than that, I monitor the city-wide chat for ICE activities every Saturday for my team. So basically there’s a big chat that all the leaders in Rapid Response Teams (RRT) are in, and then they will send texts about ICE activities that others have reported to the hotline or on social media to the chat. And then, if it’s within the designated area for my team, I will send it to the activity chat. So that’s the kind of work I’ve been doing so far.

ER: And it sounds like you went canvassing to businesses, but you’ve just also reached out to just regular people?

H: Yes. Mainly to Cantonese-speaking and Spanish-speaking people. Those are two main languages.

ER: Do you speak both Cantonese and Spanish?

 

H: No, I speak Mandarin and Cantonese, and Cantonese has been pretty useful.

ER: What has that been like? I’m really curious to know: Are people appreciative? Have they heard about ICE activity at all? Would you say people are fearful or something else? What kinds of interactions have you had?

H: It really varies. It ranges from people who have no idea what ICE is to people who have heard about all the raids. People we’ve reached through canvassing learn about their rights, and they have the materials. There was one time we went canvassing in Chinatown where there are a lot of older Cantonese-speaking people, like grandfathers and grandmothers, and a lot of them don’t know what ICE is, and so we gave them the background they needed. And for people who know a bit about ICE, a lot of them think that if they have legal status, they are fine. I think that speaks to the misconceptions people have about ICE and their default trust in government agencies, even though these are federal agencies deployed by Trump.

So we have to explain that first, ICE is doing racial profiling, so if you are non-white, you can and will be targeted. And secondly, the more people they detain, the more money they make. So they literally make money by detaining more people. And people are shocked when they hear that they want to detain as many people as they can because they’re like, “What’s the use of detaining people who are ‘legal’?” Many people think ICE is here to only target and detain so-called “illegal” immigrants. And when they find out that they’re trying to detain as many people as possible, they’re really shocked.

ER: And there’s also the idea that ICE is simply going after “the worst of the worst,” only the “criminals.” But just yesterday there was a national news story that reported that something like 83 percent of the people that have been detained so far have no criminal history whatsoever. In some areas, the number is even higher.

ICE is doing racial profiling, so if you are non-white, you can and will be targeted. And secondly, the more people they detain, the more money they make. So they literally make money by detaining more people.

H: Yes, they are even very active in Evanston. Evanston is not even that diverse, it’s like more of a middle-class suburb. I think this partly shows that we haven’t been able to tell our stories very effectively. I think a lot of the things we do aren’t proactive enough. And telling the story of what is happening here is a big part of it.

I think there are a lot of opportunities to make this like a Black Lives Matter movement. Obviously it’s a very different moment. Immigrants, especially so-called “illegal” immigrants, are not conceived of as American. This also extends to Black people at times—but in a different way—because this is a racist country. This question of “American-ness” will make it harder for this to become a national movement, but I think there is still potential, if for no other reason because ICE has shot and killed people.

Because we haven’t been able to tell our story very well, we have missed some opportunities. And because all the neighborhood responses operate individually in different areas, there have been some missed opportunities. But you could argue this is also a strength. Decentralization makes it easier to respond quickly on a local basis. But I think down the line, if ICE is here for a long time and we want to make it a movement, we should think about how to have more coordinated efforts and how to tell our own stories. I see more and more people joining in this effort, so I see a lot of potential honestly.

Geoff Guy interviews Rosemary

Rosemary is a Rogers Park community defense organizer. Rosemary is a pseudonym. Geoff Guy is a labor and tenants’ rights activist in Chicago.

GG: How has the ICE invasion impacted you and your community?

 

R: Reading through 200 messages, trying to figure out where they took my friend, trying to do my job—what are the things we could be building if not constantly reacting to crises? We’re organizing and resisting, building something beautiful here, but it’s terrifying—a military invasion in my neighborhood. The fact that an average person can’t leave their house if they’re at risk of being deported, or any brown person without threat of being detained.

We’re scared, but we’re in the streets. Chicago is organized and responding, and responding by catalyzing fear into solidarity. … We’re turning helplessness and hopelessness into action.

But also, I want to be clear about how we’re fighting back; I hate all the articles about how everyone’s afraid to leave their homes and scared. Yes, we’re scared, but we’re in the streets. Chicago is organized and responding, and responding by catalyzing fear into solidarity. In Rogers Park on the first day, ICE really hit our neighborhood—there were hundreds on the streets with their orange whistles as a visible reminder that we’re going to protect our neighbors, and people are waking up to it. It’s not just something people are seeing on the news or social media; it’s happening on their street. Our group of rapid response people is 1000 now. We have so many people trained now. Protect Rogers Park is training hundreds every week. We’re turning helplessness and hopelessness into action.

Newer folks are getting activated by just seeing this, talking to random people in the street who are following ICE. That’s what it takes – we don’t have SWAT teams, we need regular everyday people. New people coming in say they’re feeling hopeless and want to be in community with people doing something. And we’re giving constant education about why we’re doing this – not just ICE, but all forms of oppression: Palestine, policing. The number of people seeing undercover cops in our neighborhood that were never seen before, because they weren’t looking. They’re starting to see the number of cameras and the surveillance, and once they start looking, they start seeing it everywhere.

GG: Tell us about the work you’ve been doing. From the Immigration Court earlier this year to the Broadview ICE Facility to rapid response. How did these come together and form an infrastructure for the movement?

R: In June, they were kidnapping people at 55 E. Monroe (Immigration Court) for a couple weeks, then protests started. Once there was enough mobilization there and there was an embarrassing situation where they kidnapped a US citizen (protestor) in an unorthodox way. The protest worked. They effectively stopped kidnapping at court, at least for a long time. That moment where people were blocking cars from entering, that was a wakeup call that resistance works. Doesn’t work every time, and unpredictable about when it will work and when not, but in this case ICE made a calculus that this wasn’t easy picking any more. This inspired Broadview and rapid response. The more we can slow them down and waste their time, the more we can save one person.

That moment where people were blocking cars from entering, that was a wakeup call that resistance works….Just demonstrating that we do not consent to this invasion is powerful.

I think neighborhood organizing is the most powerful form of organizing—working with people you live by and know. A lot of this is a proactive vs. reactive strategy. Neighborhood rapid response is in many ways a last line of defense; this all has to work together. We have eyes on the immigration court (site of many kidnappings by ICE agents and protests) and Broadview (a processing center turned illegal detention center) and hotels housing ICE and all these nodes of ICE’s operations—we’re able to share info and warn people in much quicker and more helpful ways. Just demonstrating that we do not consent to this invasion is powerful.

Having people constantly at Broadview saying, “This is wrong,” going to the source of their operations is important. For a long time, nobody paid attention to it. There are groups who have prayed rosary there for the last twelve years but didn’t see mass mobilization until someone sat in front of the car there, and that became the focal point of demonstrations. In many ways, that site is a bottleneck for ICE. It’s a horrible facility that’s supposed to just be for processing, but now it is used for detention. It was only supposed to be twelve hours, but people are now there for days on end, sleeping there with cold food, little water. We don’t allow detention centers in Illinois. They rely on them before transferring people to detention in other states. It’s a funnel, with horrible conditions. As they ramp up operations, elected officials can’t even tour and inspect.

When JB Pritzker (Illinois Governor) sent in the Illinois State Police, we saw the true basis of police repression, which is that police exist to repress dissent and not to protect people. They are clearly facilitating ICE operations by dispersing crowds. They have beaten and arrested protestors. We have yet to see local or state police arrest ICE, even though there is a recent ruling from a judge that if ICE tries to arrest people in federal court, police in Chicago could arrest ICE. Tensions between federal and local police are getting to civil war level, and everyone is so afraid of that. They want to deny these forces work together. They prefer state repression to interstate conflict.

GG: What have you seen that’s inspired you in this work? What are your ambitions for what you would like to build? What have you learned, or what would you share with other cities? What difficulties or barriers have you encountered?

R: Build now! Don’t wait. The relationships are the thing. It can feel like patrol is a time-suck: Are we spinning our gears just flyering and maybe ICE never comes? Twofold: every action you take should build community—e.g. flyering businesses is meeting people, sharing info. Not just sitting on a corner watching people, but a chance to talk to people about why we’re here. Get to know your community, get to know organizations, try to get on the same page about what’s coming. Localize everything. Don’t wait for a citywide system, don’t wait for everybody to agree on what to do—organize your building, organize your block, then organize the city.

Build now! Don’t wait. The relationships are the thing. It can feel like patrol is a time-suck: Are we spinning our gears just flyering and maybe ICE never comes? … Every action you take should build community.

What’s possible in autonomous organizing vs nonprofits is different. Not-for-profits (NFP) can provide material resources, but maybe can’t do riskier stuff. We need an analysis of what NFPs can and cannot do. Autonomous organizing also needs principles around accountability. For example, Broadview organizing is autonomous, while NFPs are there in advocacy roles.

GG: What do you think it will take for us to win? What are the sides? What is winning?

R: Success looks like moving people from where they’re at to understand the roots of our current crisis in the true sense of radical, to uproot those roots–pushing people to understand that this is not just a fight against ICE or against Trump, but against the broader police state that we are living under. I think a lot of people believe that if we elect a new person or if we train cops better or if we change what ICE is allowed to do, that we will win. But my goal is to stop deportations, to stop all deportations. My goal is to abolish the police, not just abolish ICE. I’m a futurist—thinking about what kind of world we’re creating, not what we’re destroying.

Success looks like moving people from where they’re at to understand the roots of our current crisis in the true sense of radical, to uproot those roots–pushing people to understand that this is not just a fight against ICE or against Trump, but against the broader police state that we are living under.

We have a thousand-person chat of people ready to respond on a moment’s notice. Building popular understanding of what’s happening in our world and educating about where we go is the challenge right now. As we’re building new relationships in this crisis, we should be thinking about where this is going. That is what I hope this crisis pushes us to understand: When we get a new president we keep fighting to stop deportation and keep housing our neighbors.

GG: What can we do as organizations now to secure post-crisis?

 

R: Of primary use is political analysis. Some groups aren’t organized enough to do what larger organizations are doing in mobilizing. We can carry the political education for average people out here and be voices—not in a scolding/patronizing way—but trying to normalize. So many people are baffled in terms of what to do about this. Many people, including liberals, now have to do things they’re not accustomed to, like organizing against the police. More radical organizations have a responsibility and experience to share an analysis at this moment.

We’re not entirely sure how to incorporate lots of new people and mixed consciousness–not necessarily “we should welcome in as many people as possible,” but we should let people know they’re organizers and they should take initiative and autonomy. There is no perfect organization. I’m relatively new to this, and having a political space to lean on made a difference.

GG: What would you like to see on the other side of this?

 

R: I want to see a thousand experiments of what kind of new future we want to build and to see these communications networks and infrastructures be applied to liberatory ends, so that whatever happens, we’re not waiting for an organization or a leader to take care of us, but that we actually have what we need, that we’re self-sufficient as much as possible and having joy and community in that self-sufficiency. We can’t just fight all the time. We have to build, and building is a restorative act. It’s not just hard work, it’s lifegiving. Do a community garden! But if you’re going to do anything, do it with a political analysis. If you’re going to be a NFP, do it with an understanding that all this comes from capitalism. NFPs don’t name those things, and don’t work through that political analysis—even progressive NFPs don’t come out and say “we need to abolish capitalism.”

We can’t just fight all the time. We have to build, and building is a restorative act. It’s not just hard work, it’s lifegiving. Dennis Kosuth interviews anonymous CPS teacher ‘T’

The following interview was conducted with a Chicago Teacher’s Union member and activist ‘ T.‘ They are involved in creating a Sanctuary School in their workplace and in community defense against ICE raids as part of a rapid response network on the Southwest side of Chicago. Due to harassment and doxxing of CTU members by rightwing activists, they chose to remain anonymous for this interview. Dennis Kosuth is a Chicago Teachers Union member and activist in the Palestine solidarity, labor, and socialist movements in Chicago.

DK: How has this operation with ICE in Chicago impacted you and the communities that you are a part of?

T: Multiple neighborhoods have been tear gassed. There are literally hundreds of people who were picked up in illegal arrests, arrests that ICE is not authorized to make. Citizens have been picked up. We’ve got kids who have missed six days in a row of school. When a teacher calls the mom, she says, “I’m afraid to take him. I’m afraid to go out and travel all the way to school.”

There was a helicopter over our school last week, and the kids were asking, “Is it ICE?”

Our school’s after school programming was just cut by two thirds. I can’t help thinking that the budget was cut by two thirds and ICE agents are getting $50,000 signed bonuses.

DK: Tell us about the work you’ve been doing.

 

T: We’ve got a sanctuary team and we’re making sure our staff know what’s going on because everybody lives in different places and ICE has not hit the city evenly. We let families know that ICE is not allowed in the building without a warrant. We did see some students who had not been coming to school very regularly have their attendance picked back up right after we sent that information home.

We made sure we sent them resources from the Chicago Public School website, from the mayor’s office, from trusted organizations. We let them know how you get good information, and what their rights are. I’m really grateful that the CTU has made multilingual materials so we could distribute them school wide.

We’ve also connected with our neighborhood rapid response team and folks in the community who support the work that we’re doing. We have community members helping us do morning and afternoon school patrols. These make sure that students and parents are safe during the busiest times at drop off and pick up.

When I’m not at school, then I’m on my rapid response team and in my neighborhood, and that’s a trip because we’ve been hit really hard.

It’s affecting the kids at school; it’s affecting my neighborhood. There are other CPS employees I know who also have ICE in their neighborhood. So many people know somebody whose family member was detained or witnessed them being detained. It’s just happening so often in so many places and is increasingly violent.

DK: What have you seen that’s inspired you? Are there any experiences that give you some kind of hope?

T: This stuff definitely shows the worst of people in these ICE agents. They teargas civilians who are literally just living their lives. We also see the best of people. I’ve been surprised how some of my colleagues were willing to sign up for actions when we asked, or even folks who proactively reached out and said, “How can I help?”

It’s activated people who maybe thought that this wouldn’t happen here, and folks are willing to move to action. We see the way that people defend their own communities, how they’re willing to get to work early and patrol.

The way community members have joined in this work is also impressive. People are willing to pick up students for parents who are afraid to go out. Oftentimes this is for people that they’ve never met before and who they might not meet again after this.

We are seeing the way people are showing up to witness these kidnappings, calling for help and letting people know what’s going on. Interesting bridges and coalitions are being built because we’re focused on what matters and what matters is keeping our city safe.

DK: What are some lessons for people in other cities who are also experiencing similar things?

T: A top line, not necessarily a lesson, but more like an orientation, is how little the Feds care about anything. They don’t know who they’re detaining. They don’t care about your private property. They don’t care about your actual citizenship status. They don’t care about running red lights and causing accidents in the streets. They have no regard for the people of the cities that they’re in.

A lesson is: Be open to building partnerships that maybe in other times you would not have, with people you might not have reached out to in another time.

The power of good documentation and good communication is also important. What we’re seeing here is things moving really fast. What we organize doesn’t have to be big. It doesn’t have to be a massive network from, you know, one end of your city to the other end of your city. Start a group chat with your neighbors so you can ask them, “What’s that weird car sitting out there?”

If you can catch ICE when they’re scoping out, it’s possible that you can stop that detention, and there’s a family who won’t get separated

DK: What do you think it’s going to take to push back Trump and the anti-immigrant forces in this country?

T: I think we need to build towards a general strike. If moral pleas were going to work, I think we would have already seen a response from ICE. What I’ve noticed is when they realize that they’ll be unsuccessful is when they stop. When the cost of whatever they want to do is too high. That’s the only time they back off.

I think we need to build towards a general strike. If moral pleas were going to work, I think we would have already seen a response from ICE.

I think we need to hit capitalists in their pocket books. I would like to see what a mass work stoppage could do, and break their banks.

DK: What do you think are some of the steps that we can take now, as union or non-union workers, towards that kind of action?

T: I think workers need to keep talking to workers. Whether you’re in a union or not, or a formal union or a budding union or whatever it is, like, anybody can pressure their own workplace to establish an ICE protocol because there are only two ways that ICE can enter a building: with your consent or with a warrant.

Don’t give consent. Demand a warrant. We’re not asking anybody to, or I don’t even think you necessarily have to, be so radical as to defy a warrant. That’s not what I’m advocating at this moment. At least demand that your employer who makes money off of your back and your labor say: We’re not opening the door without a warrant.

Set up your own security teams. We’ve seen some factories here that are doing it, and really any business can decide that they’re gonna do this. We probably need some small actions before we get to a general strike.

Kirstin Roberts interview with Jorge Mujica (October 2025)

Kirstin Roberts is a Chicago Teachers Union member and longtime activist in the socialist and labor movements in Chicago. Jorge Mujica is an organizer with Arise Chicago.

KR: Can you tell Tempest readers about yourself?

JM: I’m Jorge Mujica, organizer with Arise Chicago. Arise Chicago is a worker center so basically we are focusing workplace problems from stolen wages to discrimination. Most of our members are immigrants, so therefore we have to talk about immigrant issues, although that’s not our main focus. I live now in Little Village, but I lived in Pilsen for many years as well.

KR: We are trying to let a national audience understand what is happening in Chicago from the perspective of people on the ground, ordinary people like yourself— organizers, activists, and impacted community members. Can you just paint a brief picture about what Trump is doing right now to our city?

JM: Well, I would say in general terms that Trump is terrorizing the community in Chicago. It is a psychological war, you know, because he needs to give the impression to his base that he’s keeping his promise of deporting 12 and a half or 13 million immigrants. Of course he’s not going to be able to do it. So far, in one month immigration has only detained 800 people (as of early October) that gives us an average of like 25 people every day and that’s nothing in terms of the numbers Trump wants. Of course, each deportation is a personal tragedy, a family tragedy, you know fathers without their sons, our sons without their mothers, etc. But it’s nothing in terms of real numbers. Eight hundred people every month for a full year would be 9000 people. So it’s a lot more terror, a lot more circus than anything else.

KR: I think that’s a really really good way of describing it for people. Talk a little bit about how this is impacting the community that you work in.

JM: There are a good number of day laborers in Chicago, although we are not a hub for construction like Atlanta. Many, many people look for jobs closely related to construction in the Chicago area, mostly in the suburbs, but they look for work at the Home Depot where immigration has been concentrating some of their actions. Mostly immigration has been coming after people individually, what they call “targeted operations,” but they have also conducted raids. The big difference between a targeted operation is they go after someone they’ve identified; they have an address for that person. Then they have the raids. Let’s go to Home Depot and catch everyone we find in the parking lot. These are the most incredibly vulnerable workers, to be looking for a job every single day with a different employer to do just one day’s work or maybe a bit more. But then after two weeks you’re unemployed again and you have to go back to the Home Depot and start trying to find someone to hire you. So this is despicable, going after these people just looking for work.

KR: One of the things you said is that this is a campaign of terror. What you’re describing certainly qualifies. Terrify people to get them to self-deport or just push them farther and farther underground. But there’s also something happening here in Chicago that doesn’t show up enough in the mainstream press and that is how communities are stepping up for each other. Is there anything you think people should be aware of and maybe even learn from in other cities?

JM: Well, the most inspiring thing we have had this year was hearing Tom Homan, the so-called “border czar” live on CNN saying that Chicago was a very difficult place to arrest immigrant workers because they were very well educated on their rights. So that’s like receiving the Nobel Prize for grassroots education because that’s exactly what we needed to do since Trump’s election. You know there was a lot of discussion. What do we do? Rapid response brigades or the position I took—popular education? Rapid response, maybe it’s already too late, basically coming after immigration detains somebody. Instead of that we focused on training people, educating people, preparing people for the event and for the possibility of facing immigration. We gave so many workshops. I really lost count. Immigration workshops about what to do: Keep your mouth shut and then don’t open your door. Learn your rights and have your rights card. We trained them to face the aggressiveness of immigration police.

KR: Looking forward, what is it gonna take? What kind of awareness and what kind of strategy do you think we’re gonna need in order to turn back the tide on what Trump is doing? Clearly right now people are resisting in so many ways. But every day, it’s a new outrage. Can you talk about what we need to move towards?

JM: Well, of course we need to change the regime. In order to gain that I think it’s a lot of conversation. On a daily basis people ask me, you know, what do I do? “What do I do” is not what you individually do, it is what we do as communities, what we do as groups. A community facing this thing together. We need leadership in that sense. What we need is to mobilize 200 people on that corner, and on every corner; what we need is creative participation. Like in the Little Village (neighborhood), we are distributing whistles. We are blowing the whistle and everybody starts doing it so it gets noticed. Don’t depend on an organization printing posters–if you can do it on a piece of paper or on a piece of cardboard, write down the number to the hotline and post it at the entrance of your building. We need to talk to thousands and thousands of people, telling them to be doing this kind of resistance.

You know it is natural to be fearful, to be afraid, but the more you learn, the less fear you’re gonna have and that’s what we need.

KR: Is there anything else you think would be important to let people know?

JM: You know it is natural to be fearful, to be afraid, but the more you learn, the less fear you’re gonna have and that’s what we need. I began this conversation by saying it was a psychological war so how do you get rid of that? That’s what we need you know the community to lose their fear of immigration and to start fighting because as long as you’re in panic you’re going to be frozen in place or you gonna need to try to escape. What we need, instead of running away, is facing the danger and overcoming the danger, and that only happens when you overcome the fear.

Kirstin Roberts interviews Raul Islas (October 2025)

Kirstin Roberts is a Chicago Teachers Union member and longtime activist in the socialist labor movement in Chicago. Raul Islas is a Chicago Teachers Union teacher.

KR: Can you tell Tempest readers about yourself?

 

RI: My name is Raul Islas. As a CTU (Chicago Teachers Union) teacher, I have answered the call of the teachers’ union to build a sanctuary community in my school. Basically what it is, is building a group of watchful staff, but also, if possible, bringing parents and community into it. So that’s something that I’ve been doing, connecting the staff that wants to protect students and families from ICE. Connecting them with parents and the community so that we build a strong watch community and are ready for whatever they bring at us. And today, it’s very much escalating.

KR: Can you say what happened today in Chicago? You said it’s escalating?

RI: Well, yeah, so my understanding is the National Guard has been called into Chicago by President Trump. They’re coming from the state of Texas. We’re talking hundreds. I’m not sure what the total number is, but it’s definitely hundreds. And it is specifically to aid ICE enforcement and to protect ICE agents to detain, arrest, deport people. So, yeah, that’s what I mean by escalating.

KR: Chicago has been in the national news a lot. But as people in the community, as teachers in Chicago, how do you describe this moment? What’s happening here?

RI: I interact a lot with parents, especially newcomer parents or parents who may not have legal status, and families are very scared. They’re scared to leave the house. They are scared to bring their children to school. They are scared to go and provide for their basic goods, like grocery shopping, or even going to the doctor, right? A lot of members of the community and staff, we’re trying to respond to that, and to provide them support. That could mean accompanying people to school. It could mean helping families with certain needs like grocery runs or even economic support for families. It’s becoming riskier and riskier to intervene on behalf of people who are being illegally detained. An activist was shot. ICE claimed that she attacked them, but the body cam footage is proving that to be a lie. They shot her five times. We also have a father who was shot and killed in the suburbs in Franklin Park (a Chicago suburb). Rapid response community members have also been teargassed repeatedly. Those of us who are in a rapid response community have to think more about our safety as we’re also thinking about the risk and the safety of people that we might be supporting.

KR: Is there anything that has given you hope or inspired you over the last couple of months of this work?

RI: I think there’s been a feeling of a lot of support. Whether it’s people signing up on lists to watch or to provide mutual aid for people or random neighbors, who are not a part of any groups, coming out on their own and standing up for people’s rights and taking risks, that is hope for me–just seeing where things are going and fears that people have about this administration and the boundaries that it’s pushing, fears of a dictatorship, fears of fascism. I feel rather overwhelmed by the amount of support coming in. They know more needs to be done and they’re very hungry for that opportunity to take action. I’m seeing language barriers where some volunteers are having a tough time communicating with the people, but they’re lining up to support. But when it’s an active solidarity, when there’s solidarity being felt, language becomes less of a barrier and people, they just feel the solidarity. It’s beautiful.

Whether it’s people signing up on lists to watch or to provide mutual aid for people or random neighbors, who are not a part of any groups, coming out on their own and standing up for people’s rights and taking risks, that is hope for me.

KR: You said something earlier and I want you to maybe just quickly talk about what you meant. Before we started recording you said there’s a place for everybody in this movement. Can you explain what you mean?

RI: We have some very active ICE watch. We have community activists who are definitely willing to engage ICE and to intervene when they’re seeing an arrest happening, willing to take those risks. And then we have people who may not see themselves doing that, but who want to be helping families; they want to play a role and they don’t necessarily envision themselves as activists going up against ICE per se. And then, of course, we have families who are affected, who are scared, but who are connecting us to other families that they know, organizing in their own community and putting themselves at risk. They’re affected, they’re scared, but they want to help others. There’s a role for everyone and that’s what I’m seeing more and more of, with all the layers of people that are coming out. There’s a role for everybody. It could be economic mutual aid, it could be providing a safe ride or a safe accompaniment to people to get to school, even to their jobs. It could be helping to spread posts to be viral to the public. So there’s definitely a role for everybody.

KR: How are you feeling about the political leadership in Chicago and in Illinois at this moment?

RI: I like hearing our elected leaders stand up to Trump. I think they mainly see their role as trying to stop some of what the administration is doing through the courts. Okay, I think it definitely has a role as well, but it also has major limitations. We have not been able to rely on the courts that much to stop this kind of encroachment on the people’s rights. Other elected leaders are going further, and especially more local elected leaders, where they are showing up in communities where ICE is present and they themselves are also challenging ICE on the spot, showing up to neighborhoods where ICE is, showing up to the places that people are being detained, and questioning ICE as to the legality of what they’re doing. So I think at the local level, more than the state level, more elected officials come out and be vocal. But, you know, some elected officials express that there’s only so much they can do. Their hands are tied. They’re seeing us fight back and I think they know they have to be looking like they’re fighting too. I was at the most recent No Kings rally. We had a prominent senator go up and speak, and the reception was not very good for that senator. That’s because people felt that the senator wasn’t really standing up to Trump so much. So now we’re starting to see some of these elected officials stand up a little more and you know want to make themselves look more like someone that is standing up and fighting against Trump. So I think these protests and mobilizations and organizing that are happening are making some elected officials, who normally have not been as vocal or strong, step up as well, because that’s what their constituents are demanding from them.

I think these protests and mobilizations and organizing that are happening are making some elected officials, who normally have not been as vocal or strong, step up as well, because that’s what their constituents are demanding from them.

KR: Is there anything that we want people in other cities to know that we’ve learned? Negative lessons and positive lessons?

RI: Maybe we can start with negative, okay? I think it’s important for those in the activist community that are getting involved with stopping ICE, that they’re communicating with immigrant rights groups and the groups that are working with the people affected. We hace got to make sure that the actions that are being done are working in cohesion with people who are advocating for the affected. For instance, right now, we’re definitely hearing how hard it is for lawyers or immigrant rights advocates or families to get to their loved ones at Broadview (ICE processing and detention center and site of daily protests.) That means getting things to them that they might need. Broadview is a center run by ICE and the Department of Homeland Security. It’s a processing center that should not be used as the detention center. They don’t have beds for everybody. So people are made to sleep standing up! It’s been a scene of a lot of intense protests and calls for shutting it down. And for some affected families, that’s worrisome because it means that their family members will be shipped further away to states where they do have “legal” detention centers. I’m wondering how much activists are talking to immigrant rights organizations or the affected families.

KR: So we need more movement spaces where people can communicate and coordinate?

RI: The question that needs to be asked is, how is this affecting the families? Is it making it harder for families to get to their loved ones, to get support for their loved ones? Well, what are some alternatives, right? We’ve got to have more spaces where people can talk to each other from different impacted communities. We’re all impacted communities. How do we get together and talk to each other?

They’re realizing that this is beyond elections, so to speak. We have to take action beyond just voting or beyond just waiting for lawyers or the courts to do something. It’s becoming more and more clear that the people have to take action.

I do think it is positive that people are using words like fascism, like authoritarian governments, like dictatorship. Before this we were only hearing that from groups on the Left. Now that sentiment is more widespread. What if this really is a dictatorship or a fascist takeover, and what are we willing to do to stop that? It’s very regular everyday people who are saying, look at this, look at what we’re seeing. I have family on the South side, Hispanic working class, and they are sharing things and saying things that makes me feel they understand. They’re realizing that this is beyond elections, so to speak. We have to take action beyond just voting or beyond just waiting for lawyers or the courts to do something. It’s becoming more and more clear that the people have to take action. I think this is setting the foundations for what will be a strong grassroots resistance to whatever this administration tries to do.

KR: Is there anything else you would want people to know, anything else you want to share?

RI: You know, I think this is a harder conversation to have for people, but I think we need to start thinking about not only movements and protests but completely alternative organizations that really are going to authentically and consistently fight for the issues that we care about. The Democratic Party that presents itself as an opposition party has failed to act like an opposition party in very critical and crucial moments. I mean not just recently, but throughout history. So we want to be careful to be practicing the same thing; we organize, we protest, we resist, we create the momentum, and the movement to make change, but then we just hand power over to the Democratic Party, which has some very strong members and elected officials. But overall, as an apparatus, it often feels like they are part of the problem, not part of the solution. During the election, I was not hearing from Democrats or their leaders warning about what immigration actions could turn into. If anything, I would often hear them present themselves as tough on immigration, or as tough on the border as, let’s say, Trump, right? And so I think that’s very problematic, because if you don’t present yourself as an opposition party, then people are going to go for who they see as being stronger.

We need to start thinking about not only movements and protests but completely alternative organizations that really are going to authentically and consistently fight for the issues that we care about. The Democratic Party that presents itself as an opposition party has failed to act like an opposition party.

I think the Democratic Party has some very strong voices. We have some local elected members who are very strong on this issue, like Congresswoman Delia Ramirez, who’s been very strong on immigration and very vocal against Trump. But when you look at figures like that and you see the rest of the Party, you realize the good ones are the exception. The rest of the Democratic Party doesn’t look like this, doesn’t sound like this.

I think that there’s definitely an interest from those in power to have a lower paid sector of workers with less rights that they could use, for instance, to break up unionized industries. Native workers against immigrant workers, Black against Brown, which they’ve been doing as well. I mean, we’ve definitely seen attempts by Republican governors to bus migrants into specific cities to create friction in the cities. And so there’s a lot of using the immigrant community as political weapons. It certainly feels like in this city, Chicago, that people are not putting up with it. They are standing up, they’re coming out of their homes, they’re coming out on the streets, they are keeping an eye out, they’re being watchful. And it just feels like more and more people are on guard. Like, they’re kind of ready.

You know, some people have compared us to the underground railroad. They’ve talked about how there was a time in this country where there was a Fugitive Slave Act and the federal government was forcing states to hand people over who had escaped slavery and were looking for freedom. You have a federal government now that wants to force sanctuary states to hand people over, imprison them, detain them, deport them. And so there are definitely people looking back at history and saying, we know that it’s taken people working at an underground or clandestine level to support people. I’m seeing a lot of that in Chicago and I’m inspired by it. And like I said, on a daily basis, I am overwhelmed and unable to even manage and handle the number of volunteers who are contacting me and saying, I want to help. When I met with activists from L.A. in D.C. who are facing the same thing, one of the things they warned about was fatigue and people experiencing burnout, not just physical, but emotional as well. That’s one thing that they kind of told us here in Chicago to be aware that that will happen quickly. The number of people wanting to get involved could help keep this going, because by the way it looks like now, we’re gonna have to keep this going for years because so much damage is being done and so much of it is being institutionalized like a sort of superstructure being built right before our very eyes.

Kyle Gilbertson interviews Bridget Murphy

Bridget Murphy is a longtime community organizer on the northwest side of Chicago with Palenque/Logan Square Neighborhood Association. She is a founding member of 39th Ward Neighbors United. At her children’s neighborhood public school in Albany Park she helped to build a group of neighbors that walks students safely to and from school and supports impacted families in the context of hostile ICE raids. Kyle Gilbertson is a musician and educator as well as a longtime socialist and Palestinian rights activist.

KG: How has the ICE invasion impacted you and your community?

BM: It has been very intense. The closest thing I have to describing that feeling is like COVID. You know, when all of a sudden, overnight, everything is different. Everybody has to rethink their actions. Even the smallest action, like going to the grocery store, taking your kids to school. Everybody has to rethink what is the safest possible way to go about what they do every day. In addition to the fear and anxiety, every individual person is handling it very differently.

KF: Could you tell me about the work you’ve been doing?

BM: At my own kids’ school, we have a group of neighbors that has been organizing since around Labor Day weekend. We came together very loosely on a Signal thread to think about how we could potentially organize and to find out if any families needed help getting to school. We didn’t immediately know of any families who needed that. So we started just doing morning safety walks. We met with the school administration to introduce ourselves and discuss what kinds of stuff we might want to work on together. But mostly the first few weeks we were just doing safety patrols and trying to get people plugged into community defense trainings. Then about two weeks ago, things really heated up in our neighborhood. There were multiple ICE arrests at an intersection very near our school. In one case, it was a mom from our school. She dropped her kids off at school, and walked two blocks to the bus stop to go to work. ICE swooped in and took her. I hear that her husband was with her, and he just happened to go to a corner store for a minute to get something when she was arrested. So, if he hadn’t done that, their kids would have lost both parents. When that happened, word traveled among all the parents in the school. The principal called me that day and said, “Are there a few volunteers you could have come to the main office and help us walk kids home after school?” We said sure. So about six to ten people came to the office within an hour from our group and that day we ended up helping to walk home close to 40 students. Parents possibly knew the mom who had been taken in and were scared to pick up their kids. That was a Friday. The following Monday, there were many absent students. The school really came to us at that point to say, we need your help.

Right now, it’s about 65 kids every day we are walking to school. We have ten different routes with different colors and numbers. We try to have two adults on every route. So on a daily basis, to get everyone both to and from school, we need at least 40 people to raise their hands for this kind of solidarity. And people have been doing it. It’s been amazing. Every day we’re like, okay, can we make it through? Can we do it tomorrow? But so far, the outpouring of people who have shown an interest has exceeded the number of families seeking this support.

KG: What is your vision for what you would like to build beyond what exists right now in terms of movement infrastructure?

BM: I want to acknowledge that none of this started on Labor Day weekend. I and many others have been organizing in our neighborhood as part of an independent political organization since 2020. Through that, we have built a precinct captain program. We’ve connected with people in the neighborhood dozens of times, whether it was for the Bring Chicago Home referendum (which aimed to alleviate homelessness), or for candidates, or for helping people prepare for the current attacks. So I think that’s part of what made it possible to even just get started. There was already a group of people who knew each other, and knew that there were some shared values. We’ve also organized together to plan block parties. As a parent at the school, I’ve also worked with the school over the years, organizing to help stop school closings, for safety on the playground, and as a member of the Local School Council. So, there have been lots of different pieces of organizing work that happened over the years.

Now there are so many more people joining in and looking for ways to do something concrete. And there is an interest in doing something beyond a walking school bus. We have a traditional Democratic machine alderman representing our neighborhood (Ald. Samantha Nugent). So a neighbor put out a call for her to vote a certain way in city council. And some people were asking, who can run against her? At the next neighborhood school over, they have a similar Signal thread that started overnight. It’s related to mutual aid and community defense, and now has over a hundred people. A lot of elected officials on the north side are leading the charge in all this.

KG: Are there any challenges or difficulties that you’ve encountered, or lessons you’ve learned in this work that you’d like to share with people in other cities?

BM: At this moment, most of the walking school bus volunteers are white. I think it’s an important way for people to show up and use the privilege they have. But that’s not a long-term foundation for a political organization. For the real and present need right now, I think it works. I also think that people of color in the neighborhood have shared that they’re glad to see all the white people standing up for them.

I also want to acknowledge that, though we have this new walking school bus thing, a lot of families have been doing this forever–helping each other walk their kids to school. Now some families are coordinating together to figure out how to walk in bigger groups to get to school. It’s a walking school class, an organized effort with a spreadsheet. It always has been happening. Our role is to fill the gaps now, where people feel like they don’t have access to that support.

Kyle Gilbertson’s interview with anonymous activist

The following interview was conducted with a longtime social justice activist based in Chicago. They are involved in community defense against ICE raids as part of a local rapid response network. They are also involved in the Palestine Solidarity movement in Chicago. For this interview they chose to remain anonymous. Kyle Gilberston is a musician and educator as well as a long time socialist and Palestinian rights activist.

KG: Tell me a little about how the ICE invasion has affected you and your community.

A: I live in a neighborhood that has been pretty hard hit. We’re building a lot of the organization from the ground up. There is a lot of fear. One thing that we have a lot of is like false sightings, and we’ve had that for months. Every day we continue to have sightings that are people mistaking suspicious looking cars for ICE. That really shows how people are on edge. It’s also been an opportunity for people to come together. I organized, on my own, a very small scale block watch – for just a two block by two block area around my house – after somebody was abducted directly in front of my building. We had a meeting for that, and an ICE watch training. Fifty people showed up. Sadly, that might not have happened if not for this crisis. I wish we had had that kind of organization and connection beforehand. But it is becoming a big catalyst for people to connect with their neighbors.

KG: Tell me a little more about the work you’ve been doing in this moment.

A: There are various places to get involved, and one of them is on a very local neighborhood level. I am in the rapid response group in my neighborhood. I do regular patrols around a certain area near my house. I keep up with sightings in my neighborhood. That’s rapid response. The patrols are a little bit more proactive. There is the “adopt a hiring corner” initiative with Latino Union. These hiring corners and Home Depots where the day laborers are have been such a huge target. There’s a Home Depot by my house. There’s a raid at that Home Depot almost every single day. One thing people have found is that, if they are volunteers tabling and keeping watch at a hiring corner or a Home Depot, that will significantly deter ICE raids. We think that they have scout cars in the Home Depot parking lots, such that when the volunteers leave, the ICE raid will happen about 30 minutes later. People have said, why do the day laborers go out if it’s so dangerous? The fact is, their livelihood depends on their accessibility to employers. So the fact that these people are making themselves accessible to sell their labor means that they are also the most accessible people to ICE.

So people are trying to be proactive, instead of just responding when there’s a raid. It’s the same idea with the school drop off and pick up patrols, where people try to proactively have presence around schools, because they’ve been targeting parents dropping off and picking up their kids. Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez was killed right after dropping off his kid. So you’re trying to guess where they would go and then be there in advance. The third way that I’ve been plugging in is by going to Broadview and protesting there. Everyone who gets kidnapped in Chicago gets trafficked through Broadview. And the conditions–It’s not that the conditions are the only problem. To be clear, the existence of the facility is the problem. But on top of it being a trafficking center, the conditions are also terrible there. People will be taken there and within hours feel like it is so unbearable that they will sign up for voluntary removal. We have to get Broadview shut down.

There are also people who are trying to gather data on ICE operations to try to better predict their tactics. There’s a lot of different levels.

KG: What is your vision for what you’d like to build, or what you would like to see happen in the future, within the movement?

A: In the Northwest Side Rapid Response Network, when we get calls from a certain location, sometimes no one is near that location, and we have to drive. It may take 15 minutes, and that could make a life or death difference for people. What I would really like to see is for rapid response to become obsolete, because whenever they come to a block, every single person on the block will just walk out of their house. I want to see everyone who is not undocumented, or who feels that they have the privilege to step outside and take that risk, that everyone who can somewhat safely do that, is empowered to do so and is trained to do so and can respond to it in the moment. I think it just happened in Albany Park.

What I would really like to see is for rapid response to become obsolete, because whenever [ICE] comes to a block, every single person on the block will just walk out of their house.

KG: Yeah, my friend Gabe was a part of that.

A: There have been instances when people have literally come out of their houses to stop a raid. The thing about ICE is that they work so quickly because they know that we are on to them. The person who was kidnapped in front of my apartment, was walking down the street, and they ran up to him, zip tied his hands, and threw him in the back of a van, and it was over in 10 seconds. We didn’t even get a video of it. So one thing I would like to see is that everybody is empowered to do something in that situation, and that everyone feels confident that they will be supported by their neighbors in going out and taking some sort of action, whether that’s interference or not, whether it’s just recording, or whether it’s trying to offer support to the person. Just the presence of people on the street is important, because ICE is afraid of people.

I really feel like there is a utility to be a “protective presence,” which is a word people use in Palestine to describe when, for example, American Jewish activists go to Palestine and try to impede the occupation by just being there. They’re so afraid that they’ll teargas us, even though we aren’t doing anything to them. We don’t have guns, but they seem to be afraid. I don’t know what it is inside their minds, but they seem to be very sensitive to community response. So that’s my vision for how this could be.

KG: Are there any lessons you’d like to share for people in other cities?

A: Definitely. I’ve been telling friends who live in other cities, this could come to you later, and you want to get to know your neighbors beforehand. When you’re trying to build community amid this invasion, some people are not comfortable leaving their homes. Some people are going to be understandably very wary of meeting new people right now. Trying to build relationships now, while also being sensitive to people’s very legitimate fears, is way more difficult to do. If we had done this over the summer–I wish we could have had potlucks and block parties out on the boulevard, and met every single person on our block. Before this person got abducted in front of my building, I had just happened to create a WhatsApp group for my building. It wasn’t that organized, but we had about 40 people in it. Somebody posted the video there first. Then I said, can we meet in front of the building and ask people what happened? That small WhatsApp group provided a level of organization that was really valuable in that moment. I implore people: We are socially conditioned to think that it’s rude to even say hi to our neighbors. I’ve always felt kind of awkward in my neighborhood. I feel like I am living in a place where people were displaced from due to gentrification. All of that awkwardness is completely understandable and fine. But don’t wait until there’s an emergency, and somebody has just been snatched off your block and thrown into a van to think, maybe I should meet my neighbors.

We are socially conditioned to think that it’s rude to even say hi to our neighbors. … But don’t wait until there’s an emergency, and somebody has just been snatched off your block and thrown into a van to think, maybe I should meet my neighbors.

KG: Another person I interviewed for this article made a similar point. She’s involved with United Working Families. She has done tons of door knocking around the neighborhood. She also organizes block parties. She said all of that helped in making connections with neighbors, and laying the groundwork for what’s happening now.

A: That’s the other thing: You can’t do door knocking anymore, because we just told everybody not to open their door. That’s one of the biggest problems we had. We’re trying to canvas to get people to join our block watch group, but we can’t knock on people’s doors because we don’t want to scare them. But if we had done this before–three months ago, six months ago–we could have knocked on people’s doors, and it wouldn’t have been scary. I feel a lot of regret over the missed opportunity.

KG: What do you think it would take to actually win in this struggle?

A: I think it’s a combination of two things. One thing is the organization that I talked about with everybody knowing their neighbors. Presence on the street, feeling empowered, having information networks, so we can respond immediately. The second thing is that I do believe escalated tactics are necessary. I know organizations that are 501c3s cannot recommend that people intervene in operations. I get that, and I’m respectful of that. When I volunteer with organizations, I do make that commitment.

But I don’t believe in pure pacifism. I define violence as violence towards people, not towards property. I don’t even think that we need to go as far as violence towards people like agents. It’s kind of hilarious because they have already painted us as being violent rioters at Broadview. If they’re going to call us violent rioters for just standing there, then you might as well do something that is actually effective. I do think there are ways to actually slow them down.

One issue we’re dealing with at Broadview right now is Pritzker and the Illinois State Police (ISP). Weeks ago, there was all that tear gas and stuff. I wasn’t there on those days. But on those days, about half of the agents that are present in the Chicago area were tied up with protesters at Broadview and not kidnapping people. However much I do not want me and my comrades to be teargassed at Broadview, it’s absolutely preferable to go out and take whatever they want to give us if that means they are busy and can’t be kidnapping my neighbors. Since Pritzker’s police took over the security at the Broadview facility, it has enabled the border patrol and other federal agents to be freed up. That’s because of Pritzker’s policy, the ISP’s policy, as well as the Broadview mayor’s policy is to institute these “free speech zones,” which are like kettling areas because they have these concrete barriers that trap you in. It’s unfortunate, because we never wanted our fight to be against Pritzker or the ISP, but they brought it to us. Now the movement is dealing with a lot of tension about how to respond to this. Police violence against us is obviously an issue, but it is not the core issue. Yet, you can’t separate it from the core issue, because why are they beating us up?

If they’re going to call us violent rioters for just standing there, then you might as well do something that is actually effective.

To win, if we’re talking about Broadview, we need to get the ISP out. I think probably the most viable way to do it is by threatening Pritzker’s chances at a presidential run. Then we need to make it too difficult for them to traffic people through there, and that could require a lot of different tactics. So, if we can get Pritzker’s police out of there, then we might have a chance at actually being face to face with ICE again and making their operations more difficult.

KG: A number of people in Tempest are involved with the May Day Strong Coalition. It’s a nationwide coalition that involves a lot of unions and community organizations. Part of their vision is to help lay the groundwork for a general political strike to stop ICE. Do you have any thoughts about using the power of labor to defeat ICE?

A: In this country, I think the labor movement has been co-opted and legalized to the point that labor leaders will not take this on. The rank and file is not empowered to do it without the consent of the union leaders. My general impression is that we are not treating this like the emergency that it is. I think schools should be closed, most businesses should be closed, like when everything shut down for COVID. That’s the level of disruption that I feel like this deserves. Don’t go to work. There’s a reason why that doesn’t happen. It’s because everybody would get fired. But it is very worrying the way we continue to just go to work. Things are open and things are functioning. And every few minutes, somebody just gets grabbed off the street, and we’re just going to keep working. The one example that I think is a really good one is Home Depot. Home Depot’s management, they have these off duty cops that work as security guards. They are very corrupt and colluding with ICE. There was a lawsuit filed against these people because they actually killed a migrant day laborer about a year ago. So, one thing is that the Home Depot management and these off-duty cops are extremely aggressive towards rapid response volunteers who try to talk to the employees. The employees have in general seemed to be sympathetic and don’t want raids happening in their parking lot every day. However, they have also said that if they try to do anything other than just look away, they will be fired. If Home Depot workers were to strike, that would be so impactful because that’s literally ground zero for ICE operations. They feel that their employer has the power over them, but I would hope that organizing could be done. There are more of them, and they’re the ones whose labor is powering this whole corporation. So I hope that they could at some point, organize and harness that power.

KG: Is there anything else you’d like to say that I didn’t ask you about?

A: I think too many people are falling for the Pritzker propaganda. He spoke at No Kings, and mere hours later his cops beat so many people up in Broadview. There was an ambulance called for a protester and 11 people were arrested just for being there after the curfew at 6 p.m. It created an incredibly unsafe and chaotic situation and pushed all of the protesters into Maywood, into a residential neighborhood. They were literally beating people up in residents’ front yards. If that’s what his police are doing, I just don’t care about what he’s saying in the media. Pritzker’s messaging on this is starting to be challenged. I don’t like the idea of being a punching bag for him to prove that there’s no need for the National Guard to be sent in. I want the Chicago and Illinois Left to split from Pritzker. I think that’s a really important shift that needs to happen as soon as possible. Pritzker sacrificed all of us, and Pritzker is not on our side. Pritzker is on his own side.

Glenn Allen interviews Mandy Medley

MM: My name is Mandy Medley, a worker-owner at Pilsen Community Books (PCB) and also a member of PUNO (Pilsen Unidos Por Nuestro Orgullo) here in Pilsen.

GA: How has the ICE invasion impacted you and your community?

 

MM: Mostly we are just really scared for our neighbors. There has not been as much activity in Pilsen as elsewhere on the southwest side and in the suburbs, but we did have a neighbor who was taken at the restaurant across the street from the bookstore in the morning before we were open. Actually two neighbors were, and that was a real eye-opening moment for us. So ever since then we’ve been organizing with neighbors trying to find ways to help try to get educated and pass what we learn along to people and just be as present as possible in the neighborhood.

GA: So tell us about the work you’ve been doing.

 

MM:  So I joined a coalition called PUNO. It’s a coalition of different immigrant rights organizations and neighborhood groups and also just random neighbors who are committed to advocating for the protection of immigrant rights. PUNO does legal support, education, community engagement, and then they also do migra watch, which is the thing I’ve been most involved in. PUNO puts on public migra watch training to help folks learn how to identify ICE activity happening in their neighborhood and give them some tools for ways to react, encourage them to record any interactions that they have with ICE, or record any activity they see and also to collect license plates. The first training I went to was super empowering. I think we all know in the abstract ways that we could be a community defense, but to have someone go through it step-by-step was very empowering. I got involved in migra watch along with everyone else at Pilsen Community Books, and a bunch of our neighbors. We sign up for shifts to be on watch in the neighborhood and respond to reports of activity that are called in through the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights hotline.

GA: How many people have you trained?

 

MM: I don’t have exact numbers, but I bet PUNO has trained over a thousand folks. As far as I know, PUNO is the only migra watch group that holds in-person open, public trainings.

GA: So how has that changed the group? Are those people taking part and signing up for work? Are they becoming part of a larger network that is starting to form?

MM: PUNO trains lots of people. You don’t have to live in Pilsen to go to a migra watch training. If you do go to a training and you want to get plugged into PUNO, we help you get on-boarded and into our network. But because we also are connected to all different rapid response networks throughout the city through ICIRR we can help folks get plugged into their neighborhood if they’re not Pilsen based. PUNO has grown exponentially and it’s been really great to see and to meet new neighbors, but we’ve also directed countless people to other networks throughout the city.

GA: How did you decide to do in-person mass training?

 

MM: You know, I don’t know. I wasn’t a part of that early decision. But when something like this happens, when there’s a crisis, everyone’s like, “I wanna help but I don’t know how.” There have been a bunch of organizers in Pilsen and in the Little Village neighborhood and beyond who have been planning for this for a long time. They’ve been organizing around this for years and years, so this crisis wasn’t new for them. It’s my understanding that they understand the power of community engagement and they wanted to help folks get involved and you know be as informed as they could be. PUNO had the capacity to put these on in conjunction with ICIRR and it just kind of grew from there.

GA: What have you seen that’s inspired you in this work?

 

MM: I have seen so many folks who would have never dreamed of doing this kind of on-the-street work. Just get out there, even though sometimes it’s scary. It’s unpredictable. It’s just average people. It’s like dorky middle-aged people like me. It’s young people. It’s older people. Out there together, you know, across race and class barriers all in defense of their neighbors and it’s just honestly one of the most moving organizing experiences of my life.

It is like an unexpected silver lining to this. I know I’ve lived in Pilsen for quite some time and I thought I knew a lot of folks already and I did. But I mean so many folks are coming out of the woodwork and wanting to get involved because I think everyone recognizes that this is fascism here on our street.

It’s just average people. It’s like dorky middle-aged people like me. It’s young people. It’s older people. Out there together, you know, across race and class barriers all in defense of their neighbors and it’s just honestly one of the most moving organizing experiences of my life.

GA: What have you learned or what would you like to share with other cities that haven’t done this yet?

MM: I’ve learned that the more you can share information with others the better. I think having trainings open to the public is really important. It allows people to become involved in an informed and more safe way. So I encourage other cities to start thinking about what to do now and start putting that framework in place. We had talks with organizers from L.A. before all this happened in Chicago. In our PUNO meetings, we’ve talked about what we’ve learned from them and that’s been very useful. Not only for the information but also to feel like you’re not alone. Like we’re all working in solidarity fighting fascism together.

GA: What do you think it’s going to take for us to win, and what do you think the next steps are right now?

MM: You know our mayor Brandon Johnson called for a general strike. In my wildest dreams, yeah, sure I would love a general strike. I think building the power that we need to get to a general strike is the next step.

It’s been really illuminating to see how a group of people who aren’t connected in any way except geographically can come together and learn how to organize. It’s not impossible, like you don’t need organization already in place, you don’t need cadres, you don’t even need a workplace to unite if the threat is strong enough. That has been really eye-opening for me. So I think if we can continue to build power, continue to stay connected even if the threat abates, if we don’t lose these connections and don’t lose the organizing we’ve got. Then maybe in the future a general strike might actually be something that could be possible.

I was even thinking at the No Kings protest that a lot of the Left just kind of turned their nose up at it: “It’s just a bunch of libs.” And you know there is a part of that. It’s like people who don’t ever come out for anything else that come in from the suburbs. But what would’ve happened if everyone from every rapid response group had shown up with literature? Showed up with information about when you can come to the next training? I feel like people just don’t know how. If we actually had a place where they could plug in. I would have liked to have seen more of that.

GA: I thought that this rally was much broader than the previous one. I mean it was much bigger than the last No Kings too. But it was also much younger, and it was more interracial. It was much more integrated.

MM: That’s good. That’s been another silver lining of this whole thing. It’s like every kind of Chicagoan is represented out in the streets against ICE right now. It’s not just the people who are always out.

GA: I’ve noticed an attitude expressed by more conservative parts of the opposition to ICE, an opposition to the excess violence and brutality, against picking up random people on the street. But it’s fine to go after the ‘“right” people, people without papers or with criminal records. I’m wondering if you’ve seen that get any traction, and what do you say about that?

MM: You know I have heard that and surprisingly I’ve heard it more in Pilsen than I thought I would. The rise of the Latino right has not escaped Pilsen. Sometimes you hear people say ‘well they should’ve had their papers’ or whatever. There are Latino residents here in Pilsen, who feel like they immigrated the “right way.”

And obviously all the migrants that Chicago absorbed a few years back has increased tensions, because people perceive that there aren’t enough resources for everyone. So it pits people against people. But I do think there’s a real opportunity to try and take a more abolitionist perspective in our messaging when we’re talking about this. Silky Shah has this great book called Unbuild Walls, which talks about how police and prison evolution is tied to the abolition of borders. I think it’s a real opportunity for the Left to get some more expansive messaging out there. I also think the videos of what ICE is doing in the streets with tear gas and even the videos from the way Illinois State police and ICE have brutalized protesters in Broadview. People aren’t going to forget that.

There’s a real opportunity to try and take a more abolitionist perspective in our messaging when we’re talking about this.

And I think it’s up to the Left to get out there and then push this message forward. A lot of people would be open to that.  It’s just, you know, we have to do it.

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The movement is hiring a new staff position! Check out the description below and apply if you’re a great candidate

January 2026

About Transit for All PA! and Pittsburghers for Public Transit

Transit for All PA! is fighting for more public transit that moves all Pennsylvanians. The campaign is led by Pittsburghers for Public Transit (PPT), which is a grassroots union of transit riders, workers, and neighbors. Together, PPT and Transit for All PA! organize for public transit that meets all needs, with no communities left behind.

PPT is a member-led grassroots union. Our members vote annually to elect fellow members to our Board of Directors, which manages our staff and finances. Members create and vote to approve our yearly campaign plans, and members work on our three volunteer-led committees to do the research, organizing, and communications projects needed to win our campaigns.

Together, we are creating transit systems that work for everybody, for our communities and our state, by organizing as poor and working-class people in a multi-racial movement for transit justice—and we need you with us in this fight.

Digital Organizer – Data Lead Position Summary

The Digital Organizer – Data Lead will build & manage our digital infrastructure, data strategy, online-to-offline organizing funnel to grow our movement and win our campaigns. The position will work in the organization’s small but mighty Digital Department, with the Digital Organizing Director and the Digital Organizer – Communications Lead. Close collaboration with the rest of the staff and our member leaders will be vital.

This is not an entry-level position; we require applicants to have a command of data management skills (such as managing databases, digital infrastructure and tools, workflows, and data hygiene) and experience with community organizing skills (such as facilitating meetings, trainings, events, and participation). It’s a big, broad job, and we work as a team to support each other and get it done.

 The Digital Organizer – Data Lead will report to the Digital Organizing Director.

Primary Job Responsibilities

1. Digital infrastructure building & management: co-create systems to maximize the efficacy of our data via digital and old-fashioned community organizing.
   • EveryAction! Grow an organizational culture committed to building a powerful EveryAction database and advocacy/communications toolset to win our campaigns. Work with EA to develop systems/segmentation to support our organizing across the state. Train staff on their appropriate roles in the database. Troubleshoot issues when they arise.
   • Manage the organization’s tech stack – Sharpen the use of our tech stack (which currently includes Everyaction, Mobilze, Getthru, Google Workspace, Zoom, Twilio, Asana and some others) and digital/analogue data by fixing bugs, building workflows, and training staff.
   • Build a culture of effective data collection + hygiene– Train staff/members on systems & practices, and lovingly hold our team accountable to our program. Make the benefits of our data practices tangible – graphs, dashboards, effective workflows, clear purpose.
     
2. Membership program growth: Cultivate a PPT Membership program that builds strong, caring, personal relationships that move people to action and sharpen our fundraising with small-dollar donors. That means we will need you to:
   • Grow membership & solidarity – build systems to increase the number of members.  Deepen new & existing members’ understanding of what it means to be part of this grassroots union.
   • Improve & maintain data/digital systems – Iterate on existing systems to track and report on membership program. Streamline program operations – recruitment, renewals, self-service, and more.
   • Increase revenue – Lead 2 large membership drives and 2 small recruitment campaigns throughout the year. Coordinate with the team on a fundraising calendar.
   • Deepen engagement and leadership development – Help members increase their involvement in our organizing & develop leaders who can take charge of making change in their communities. 
     
3. People Organizing – Yes, this position will spend lots of time on a computer, but it will also require strong real-life relational organizing to be successful:
   • Create & lead our Data Volunteer Team (name is a work in progress) – establish a volunteer team  work on data projects. 
   • Large-event planning & logistics – lend a hand with large in-person and virtual events held throughout the year

Qualities We Are Looking For

Versed in Strategic Infrastructure. You have experience building and managing digital infrastructure to strengthen organizations. Systems and tools should be clear, intuitive, and accessible for staff and volunteers to utilize.

Accountability Focused. You are a rigorous systems thinker who can create digital infrastructure to accurately assess our current engagement capacity, identify opportunities for growth, and demonstrate the efficacy of different organizing and communications strategies.

Visionary and Committed. You are an organizer at heart, working towards justice for our communities. You are caring, invested, and accountable to your fellow staff, PPT’s democratically-elected board leadership, and membership.

A Swiss Army Knife. You are resourceful and creative, willing to do what it takes to make a project succeed. You can handle a lot in a fast-paced, multi-faceted work environment.

In(ter)dependent. Can work independently, self-managing your time, while maintaining close communication with remote teams. You are flexible and know that organizing doesn’t always happen between 9 am and 5 pm – and you respect your time and your team’s by taking flex time to keep everyone at a 40hr work week. You believe in people and know everyone can contribute in different ways to win a better world.

Required Qualifications

• Support Transit for All PA! + Pittsburghers for Public Transit’s mission, vision, goals, and theory of change
• Deep personal investment in the intersectional struggle for transit justice, housing justice, disability justice, racial justice and environmental justice
• Experience in multi-racial, multicultural settings
• Spreadsheet prowess and admin-level proficiency in 21st-century office tools: Google Suite, Zoom, Asana etc
• 2-3 years of managing digital systems and infrastructure for an organization like CRMs, websites, and tools for digital activism
• 1+ years experience in creating training materials and training organizational staff. 
• Access to reliable internet, phone, and remote office arrangements. 

Preferred Qualifications

• 2-3 years of community organizing experience (paid or volunteer), preferably with grassroots member-led base-building organizations or unions, moving people to volunteer, donate, attend events, or take action for social change
• 1+ years experience in PPT membership and/or the Transit for All PA! campaign, and familiarity with Pittsburghers for Public Transit’s/Transit for All PA!’s community and organizational culture. 
• Ability to write and speak a second language, preferably Spanish

Location and Travel

Our staff must be willing to work a flexible schedule, including nights and weekends – while also valuing rest, humanity, and taking time for our own needs and the team’s.

The Digital Organizer – Data Lead can live anywhere in Pennsylvania, but will need to be able to travel to Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, and other parts of PA 4-5 times a year. If the hire lives in Pittsburgh or Philadelphia, some level of in-office time with local staff will be required. The hire will need to have some flexibility and give input on our “workplace norms” as we grow to operate at a statewide level. 

Salary and Benefits

This is a full non-exempt position. Salary is $65,000 a year, and includes high-quality, zero premium and zero deductible family health care, free transit pass, unmatched and matched 401k retirement contributions, and generous paid leave time. PPT is committed to an access-focused culture centered around Disability Justice principles and believes in a workplace culture with a healthy work-life balance.

How To Apply & Hiring Timeline

Please email a resume, cover letter, and writing/work samples to Dan Yablonsky, PPT/T4APA’s Digital Organizing Director, at dan@pittsburghforpublictransit.org. To ensure your email is received, please include “PPT Digital Organizer – Data Lead” as the subject line. References will be asked for candidates who advance in the process.  Candidates will only be contacted if our hiring team chooses to pursue an interview.

Pittsburghers for Public Transit is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive work environment and is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, familial status, sexual orientation, national origin, ability, age, or veteran status.

All applications received by February 20th, 2026 are guaranteed to be reviewed, but applications will be accepted until the position is filled. The target start date for this new hire is March 20, 2026.

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Organizations in Biobío are organizing themselves in response to the emergency caused by mega-fires - statement published today Jan 22 2026

Will Work for Food:
“With a combination of education, monitoring, and enforcement, the Fair Food Program and the CIW have provided fertile ground for both preventing and addressing sexual violence in the workplace.” “The CIW successfully looks up the food chain to the highest-profiting companies in retail and service and puts pressure on them to absorb the cost of higher worker wages at the farm level. Because of their successes, thousands of farmworkers like Lupe have benefited from better pay and working conditions.”

As the CIW’s Fair Food Program—and the broader Worker-driven Social Responsibility model to which it gave rise—continue to scale and be replicated in workplaces across the country and around the globe, a new book goes under the hood of the FFP to tell a remarkable story of transformation and hope.

The book traces how farmworkers from the forgotten agricultural town of Immokalee, Florida, achieved what once seemed unthinkable: bringing about a new day of dignity and respect for farmworkers across the United States, and in the process helping to forge a new paradigm for enforcing human rights in global supply chains through the Fair Food Program. What makes the achievements of the FFP so extraordinary is not just the program’s current reach, but its most unlikely origins. In an industry long defined by impunity, entrenched power imbalances, and a chilling climate of fear, farmworkers—among the most economically and politically marginalized workers in the global economy today—stood up, made common cause with consumers, and demanded they be treated as human beings. 

Will Work for Food: Labor across the Food Chain places the groundbreaking success of the Fair Food Program against the stark backdrop of a global food system that all too often exploits and abuses those at the very bottom—stripping workers of their time, their dignity, and, in some cases, their freedom. For readers seeking to understand both the depth of abuse that persists in food and agriculture and the proven solutions capable of ending it, this book is essential reading.

The book is co-written by two leading scholars of food systems: Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern and Teresa Mares. Minkoff-Zern is an Associate Professor of Geography and the Environment at Syracuse University. Mares is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Vermont and serves as Director of the university’s Graduate Program in Food Systems.

We are excited to share a few excerpts below, but you’ll want to read the whole thing, which you can find here!

Will Work for Food: Labor across the Food Chain

“‘For women, to be able to work with dignity and respect is huge, because before the [Fair Food] Program the women were sexually harassed, but now that the program exists there is zero tolerance for sexual harassment and woman can report sexual harassment anonymously, because that did not happen before. Therefore, now women are working and our human rights are being respected, which is very important, especially because as women there are many things that we face and this alleviates one of our worries to be able to work as a woman free and with respect.’

 – Lupe, tomato picker and Coalition of Immokalee Workers organizer

Farmworkers like Lupe are central to food production in the United States, from New England’s dairy farms to vineyards on the West Coast to tomato fields in the Southeast. Yet across these regions workers labor under grueling physical conditions and in one of the lowest paid and least regulated industries in the country. In the small agricultural town of Immokalee, Florida, farmworkers have organized a powerful campaign, affecting how their labor is valued from the grassroots level to the very top of the corporate food chain. The Coalition of Immokalee Workers is a worker-based organization focused on protecting the human rights of farmworkers.

CIW staff member Lupe Gonzalo provides an on-the-clock, worker-to-worker education session at Tuxedo Corn, CO.

They have coordinated one of the most forward thinking and strategic programs to address labor abuses and sexual violence against farmworkers in the United States today, called the Fair Food Program. In developing this program, the CIW has articulated a strong analysis of the power dynamics within the industrialized food system and has found creative ways for their demands to fit within its confines. Moreover, they recognize farm labor as part of a food system, where power and profits remain at the top, in the service and retail sectors, and outside of the direct relations between agricultural workers and their farm-level employers. Their role in creating the broader framework and network of the Worker-Driven Social Responsibility (WSR) model is profound and engages a different set of organizing principles from that of more traditional forms of worker activism. The WSR model is a worker-led approach to monitor labor standards and fight labor abuses, which can include mechanisms for handling complaints and worker trainings. Organizations engaging in WSR models, such as the CIW, exemplify a food chain perspective. The CIW successfully looks up the food chain to the highest-profiting companies in retail and service and puts pressure on them to absorb the cost of higher worker wages at the farm level. Because of their successes, thousands of farmworkers like Lupe have benefited from better pay and working conditions. The organizing work of the CIW and others challenges the structural inequalities embedded in the industrial mode of producing food today.

…We opened this chapter with a discussion of the success of the CIW Campaign for Fair Food, whose worker-organizers have catalyzed a growing network of labor organizations committed to the WSR model. The CIW was formed in 1993, when a small group of workers began weekly meetings in response to rampant labor abuses and violations in Florida’s tomato fields. Using organizing tactics of widespread work stoppage, a well-publicized hunger strike, and a 234-mile march across Florida, these workers followed in the footsteps of many farmworkers before them, attempting to structurally address low wages and abusive conditions… Rather than follow the dollar only to the farm level, farmworkers and organizers in the CIW recognized that large-scale retailers and restaurants are making much more of the food dollar than the farmers who directly employ them…

Walmart executives sign onto the Fair Food Program, joined by Coalition of Immokalee Workers co-founder Lucas Benitez, in 2014.

Despite the often-grim realities confronting farmworkers, there are reasons for optimism thanks to this activism and the effective organizing within the farmworker justice movement. In a Civil Eats piece examining the influence of the #MeToo movement on farmworker organizing, Vera Chang shows how one of the most important accomplishments of the CIW has been to tackle sexual violence in the field head-on. With a combination of education, monitoring, and enforcement, the Fair Food Program and the CIW have provided fertile ground for both preventing and addressing sexual violence in the workplace. In addition, according to the CIW, as of 2024, the program has provided more than 1,200 worker-to-worker educational sessions, has fielded more than 3,900 complaints to the Fair Food Hotline, and has distributed more than $44 million of premiums paid by participating buyers…

As the CIW has expanded its influence, the development of the WSR network is an inspiring example of worker solidarity across sectors as the network includes both food and farmworkers and those in other industries, such as garment production. One member of the WSR network, Migrant Justice, has benefited from a close collaborative relationship with the CIW as it has drawn heavily on the Fair Food Program and its principles to develop the Milk with Dignity (MD) program with dairy farms in the northeastern United States. In October 2017, Ben and Jerry’s signed on to the MD program after years of worker organizing. As of 2024, sixty-five farms in Vermont and New York supplying Ben and Jerry’s with milk are abiding by a farmworker-authored code of conduct. More recently, Migrant Justice has expanded its organizing to the retail sector, calling for the supermarket chain Hannaford to join the MD program as well. In designing the MD program with farmworkers at the center, Migrant Justice has regularly visited Immokalee and hosted worker organizers from the CIW in Vermont, and there is little doubt that the successful campaign bringing Ben and Jerry’s (which is owned by Unilever) into the MD program was due in part to the solidarity between the two organizations…

Minneapolis has become the frontline in the emerging soft civil war between the U.S. government and large sections of its population. The city is now building toward a mass strike this Friday. While the exact scope of the strike is still to be determined, the talk of a “general strike” for the first time in a very long time is grounded in reality.

The significance of this step, of an entire city withholding its labor to win a set of demands, should not be underestimated. In his attempt to terrorize a section of workers and divide the working class, Trump has instead helped create the conditions for workers to recognize their own power. While the tactic of the mass strike is a part of working-class consciousness in many other countries, that has not been the case in the United States for many decades. A year after Trump’s inauguration, a section of the working class is embracing a tactic rooted in the system’s dependence upon our labor. In our own cities, we must use the example of Minneapolis to build the type of movements that can defeat the attacks of the Trump administration.

The stakes for building this type of movement are dire. As his regime goes into crisis internationally and domestically, the more Trump will turn to war abroad and attacks on migrants at home to divide the resistance. The only effective way to pull the brakes on this project is through mass coordinated working class action throughout the country.

The situation in Minneapolis

The state’s naked use of terror in the Twin Cities is tantamount to a military occupation, with the Trump administration declaring ICE agents to have “immunity” from prosecution while executing their duties. The result has been weeks of mindless, lawless violence from 3,000 members of a state institution with a larger budget than all but two militaries on earth.

The “Day of Truth and Freedom,” initially called by faith leaders, union representatives and community members, called for no work, no school, and no shopping in order to, in the words of Auxiliary Minister JaNaé Bates Imari, “leverage our economic power, our labor, and our prayer for one another.” The call has been endorsed by major unions, including SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, CWA Local 7250, St. Paul Federation of Educators Local 28, Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1005, and even the Minneapolis Regional Labor Federation, AFL-CIO. The demands they put forward are:

1. ICE must leave Minnesota now.
2. Renee Good’s killer, Jonathan Ross, must be held legally accountable.
3. No additional federal funding for ICE in the upcoming budget.

The situation on the ground in the Twin Cities is a complicated one, with activity largely driven from below. While the unions mentioned above have endorsed the actions, they have also made it clear that they are not calling for their members to strike. A Facebook post from the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1005 clarified:

The ATU IS NOT participating in the general strike. While we support the purpose of the rally, we encourage members to engage in alternative forms of protest, such as refraining from shopping or other lawful actions that do not conflict with their work obligations.

This hesitation reflects a complicated dynamic within the bureaucracies of the unions, which have recognized the existential threat that Trump has posed, yet remain tied to the habits of an age of docile unionism that have long ceased being appropriate. According to one activist in Minneapolis that the present authors spoke to, the result is that the unions are at least not getting in the way of the organizing that is taking in more or less a wildcat basis, from person to person and from workplace to workplace. According to one report, it is quite possible that many of the workplaces represented by these unions will still experience mass walkouts.

Minneapolis has a proud radical history. It is the city that gave us the general strike of 1934 and also the place where the Black Lives Matter uprising of 2020 began after the police murder of George Floyd. The whole city went through that experience together, and the solidarity that emerged from it is still very much a part of its fabric. Minneapolis is also an oasis in a sea of red states, and many young, queer, and radical people flock to the city as a refuge. This has given the city a more sharply radical character.

While the rallying demands are incredibly important, the role of radicals in this movement must be to widen their scope and targets. The movement must place demands upon the local and state Democrats to take strong action to protect the people of the Twin Cities. It must raise demands about not just stopping additional ICE funding, but abolishing ICE altogether, something that Democrats have no interest in doing. It must also include a demand against the Democratic state government sending the national guard to squash effective direct action against ICE. It must be remembered that the Democrats have consistently voted to fund ICE, often breaking funding records under their administrations, and they have every intention to continue doing this in the future. In a context where 57 percent of people in the U.S. disapprove of how ICE is enforcing immigration laws, and 46 percent support abolishing ICE outright (with only 43 percent opposed), raising these demands at this moment is both popular and important.

Organize now for mass strikes

There is national momentum building around mass political labor action, but this momentum will not result in mass strikes on its own. It will require militants to continue pushing it along. We must work towards building for a May Day this spring that will illustrate the power of our re-awakened class.

To start building capacity for this kind of militant action locally, there are a number of steps that we can take.

• Establishing May Day Strong coalitions with unions and pushing for mass political action within them
• Pass resolutions in support of the Minneapolis strike and their demands within our unions
• Build democratic community defense organizations and encourage everyone to establish ICE watches to alert people to ICE’s gestapo activities
• Seek to force cities and towns to declare themselves to be sanctuaries and not cooperate with ICE in any way
• Form rank and file committees in unions to push for resolutions and action against ICE.

These are the building blocks of concrete activity in the present that can unite our forces to push for more mass strikes against Trump.

The exact extent of the refusal to work in Minneapolis will be revealed on Friday. This may very well be, to re-purpose a famous phrase, “one small step for the people of Minneapolis, one giant leap for the U.S. working class.”

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Headline News:

• “Trump Rules Out Using Military Force To Acquire Greenland In Davos Speech” • President Donald Trump, speaking at the World Economic Forum, ruled out taking Greenland by military force. He said, “We probably won’t get anything unless I decide to use excessive strength and force where we would be, frankly, unstoppable. But I won’t do that.” [ABC News]

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• “Solar And Wind Overtake Fossil Fuels In The EU For The First Time” • A report from Ember found that renewable energy was the source of almost half of EU power last year, despite a drop in hydro power and increased use of gas. Wind and solar led the boom, generating a record 30% of EU electricity and overtaking fossil fuels by 1%. [Euronews]
• “Seaweed Blooms Suggest The Ocean Is Geoengineering Itself” • Just as a tree is on land, seaweed is a living organism that soaks up carbon dioxide when it grows. Clearly, more seaweed can sequester more carbon. A study by researchers at the University of South Florida, published on January 19, finds the ocean may be geoengineeering itself. [CleanTechnica]
• “Europe’s Largest Rare Earths Mine: How EU Funding Clashes With Environmental Laws” • The EU is pouring its financial resources into Europe’s largest known rare-earth project, the Per Geijer mine in Sweden, to reduce its dependence on China for critical raw materials. However, the same EU legal framework threatens to halt this strategic push. [Euronews]
• “Vertical Aerospace Brings Valo To New York, Outlining Plans For Electric Air Taxi Routes” • Vertical Aerospace launches its US tour in New York City this week, bringing its new commercial electric aircraft, Valo, to the US for the first time alongside plans for electric air travel routes in New York with Bristow Group and Skyports Infrastructure. [CleanTechnica]

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Open access notables

Mapping Europe’s rooftop photovoltaic potential with a building-level database, Kakoulaki et al., Nature Energy

Individual building-level approaches are needed to understand the full potential of rooftop photovoltaics (PV) at national and regional scale. Here we use the European Digital Building Stock Model R2025, an open-access building-level database, to assess rooftop solar potential for each of the 271 million buildings in the European Union. The results show that potential capacity could reach 2.3 TWp (1,822 GWp residential, 519 GWp non-residential), with an annual output of 2,750 TWh based on current PV technology. This corresponds to approximately 40% of electricity demand in a 100% renewable scenario for 2050. Already by 2030, over a half of buildings with floor area larger than 2,000 m2 could generate most of remaining capacity for the 2030 target with 355 GWp. Across member states, non-residential rooftops could cover 50% or more of their PV targets, with several exceeding 95%. The open-access building-level database offers practical tools to support better decisions, accelerate renewable energy adoption and promote a more decentralized energy system. It is also an enabler for planners and researchers to further explore energy scenarios with high renewable shares.

A new class of climate hazard metrics and its demonstration: revealing a ten-fold increase of extreme heat over Europe, Kirchengast et al., Weather and Climate Extremes Here we introduce a new class of threshold-exceedance-amount metrics that consistently track changes in event frequency, duration, magnitude, area, and timing aspects like daily exposure and seasonal shift—as separate metrics, partially compound (e.g., average event severity), and as compound total events extremity (TEX). Building on daily temperature datasets over 1961 to 2024, we applied the new metrics to extreme heat events at local- to country-scale (example Austria) and across Europe, demonstrating their utility through this use. Comparing the recent period 2010-2024 to the reference period 1961-1990, we reveal amplification factors of around 10 [5 to 25] in the TEX of extreme heat over Austrian and most central and southern European regions. This degree of amplification is found to strongly exceed the natural variability, providing unequivocal evidence of anthropogenic climate change. Given their fundamental capacity to reliably track any threshold-defined hazard at any location, the new metrics can support a myriad of uses beyond this example application. These range from climate impact analyses for extremes such as heatwaves, floods and droughts to extreme events attribution, quantifying the anthropogenic share of a hazard extremity and of its damage to properties and harm to people. Learning the hard way: Applying a climate literacy approach to extreme weather experience — Evidence from Poland, Kurowski & Wites, Weather and Climate Extremes Climate literacy is essential for empowering societies to respond effectively to the challenges of climate change. However, individuals often struggle to address climate issues because of their abstract nature and perceived psychological distance. This study investigates whether direct personal experiences of extreme weather events are associated with higher scores on the climate literacy measures among Polish citizens. We developed and validated, through an expert-based process, the “Big Three Climate Literacy Questions” - a concise instrument designed to capture key components of climate literacy across knowledge, skills and attitudes - and administered them in a survey of 1001 residents from regions in Poland historically affected by floods and storms. Regression analyses reveal that the mere occurrence of an extreme weather event does not significantly influence scores on the climate literacy measures. However, when such events result in severe financial or psychological consequences, they are associated with higher literacy scores (for all three dimensions of climate literacy), suggesting that the intensity of the experience can act as a catalyst for deeper cognitive and emotional engagement. We also find that individuals employed in high-emission sectors tend to overestimate their climate knowledge; nonetheless, their personal experiences with extreme weather events are still associated with higher scores on the climate literacy measures. These findings support the hypothesis that intense climate-related experiences can serve as “teachable moments", enhancing receptiveness to climate information and fostering the development of more accurate and informed climate-related beliefs—even among groups that might otherwise exhibit resistance to such messages. From this week's government/NGO section:

WMO confirms 2025 was one of warmest years on record, World Meteorological Organization

The global average surface temperature was 1.44 °C (with a margin of uncertainty of ± 0.13 °C) above the 1850-1900 average, according to WMO’s consolidated analysis of eight datasets. Two of these datasets ranked 2025 as the second warmest year in the 176-year record, and the other six ranked it as the third warmest year. The past 11 years have been 11 warmest on record. Temporary cooling by La Niña does not reverse the monotonic trend. International data exchange underpins climate monitoring datasets for a single authoritative source of information.

Global Temperature Report for 2025, Berkeley Earth

2025 was the third warmest year on Earth since 1850. It is exceeded only by 2024 and 2023. This period, since 1850, is the time when sufficient direct measurements from thermometers exist to create a purely instrumental estimate of changes in global mean temperature. The analysis combines 23 million monthly-average thermometer measurements from 57,685 weather stations with ~500 million instantaneous ocean temperature observations collected by ships and buoys. The last 11 years have included all 11 of the warmest years observed in the instrumental record, with the last 3 years including all of the top 3 warmest.

Assessing the Global Temperature and Precipitation Analysis in 2025, National Centers for Environmental Information, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

2025 ranks as the third-warmest yea Upper ocean heat content was record high in 2025. Annual sea ice extent for both the Arctic and Antarctic regions ranked among the three lowest years on record. The Northern Hemisphere snow cover extent was the third lowest on record. There were 101 named tropical storms across the globe in 2025, which was above average. 201 articles in 60 journals by 1151 contributing authors

Physical science of climate change, effects

Antarctic warming affects northern Equatorial Indian Ocean SST via oceanic tunnels, Sherin et al., Global and Planetary Change 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2026.105321

Climate and Anthropogenic Perturbations Impact Stream Geochemistry, Warix et al., Earth's Future Open Access pdf 10.1029/2025ef006512

Considerable yet contrasting regional imprint of circulation change on summer temperature trends across the Northern hemisphere mid-latitudes, Pfleiderer et al., Weather and Climate Dynamics Open Access pdf 10.5194/wcd-7-89-2026

Dynamics of Heat Wave Intensification over the Indian Region, Lekshmi et al., Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 10.1175/jas-d-24-0093.1

Exploring the Influence of Sea Surface Temperature Extremes on Precipitation Extremes Across India's Climate Zones: A Complex Network Approach, Reddy et al., International Journal of Climatology 10.1002/joc.70172

Increased deciduous tree dominance reduces wildfire carbon losses in boreal forests, Black et al., Nature Climate Change 10.1038/s41558-025-02539-z

Irreversibility of extreme precipitation intensity in global monsoon areas under multiple carbon neutrality scenarios, Miah et al., Weather and Climate Extremes Open Access 10.1016/j.wace.2025.100843

North Atlantic ventilation change over the past three decades is potentially driven by climate change, Guo et al., Nature Communications Open Access pdf 10.1038/s41467-025-67923-x

The observed September 2023 temperature jump was nearly impossible under standard anthropogenic forcing, Seeber et al., Communications Earth & Environment Open Access pdf 10.1038/s43247-026-03178-8

Upper Circumpolar Deep Water Properties: Means and Trends From 2005 Through 2024, Johnson, Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans Open Access pdf 10.1029/2025jc023154

Weak self-induced cooling of tropical cyclones amid fast sea surface warming, Guan et al., Nature Geoscience Open Access pdf 10.1038/s41561-025-01879-x

Observations of climate change, effects

A new class of climate hazard metrics and its demonstration: revealing a ten-fold increase of extreme heat over Europe, Kirchengast et al., Weather and Climate Extremes Open Access 10.1016/j.wace.2026.100855

An Assessment of Extreme Precipitation Trends in the Missouri River Basin: Insights From Three Gridded Precipitation Data Sets and Climate Indices, Gupta et al., International Journal of Climatology Open Access pdf 10.1002/joc.70163

Climate change shifts the North Pacific storm track polewards, Chemke & Yuval, Nature 10.1038/s41586-025-09895-y

Creeping snow drought threatens Canada’s water supply, Sarpong et al., Communications Earth & Environment Open Access 10.1038/s43247-025-03162-8

Long-Term Trends in Global Natural Vegetation Greenness Rate and Its Climatic Drivers in a Warming World, An et al., Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences Open Access 10.1029/2025jg009089

Mapping Diurnal Heat Stress in Nigeria: Spatial and Temporal Changes Over Seven Decades, Nasara et al., International Journal of Climatology 10.1002/joc.70262

Persistent river heatwaves are emerging worldwide under climate change, Chen et al., Nature Communications Open Access pdf 10.1038/s41467-025-66868-5

Reduced spatial heterogeneity of day-night temperature variability difference under global changes, Liu et al., Global and Planetary Change 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2026.105311

Spatio-Temporal Change of Climate Regions in Türkiye, Pekta? & Aksu, International Journal of Climatology 10.1002/joc.70166

The observed evolution of Arctic amplification over the past 45 years, Serreze et al., The Cryosphere Open Access 10.5194/tc-20-411-2026

Instrumentation & observational methods of climate change, effects

A new class of climate hazard metrics and its demonstration: revealing a ten-fold increase of extreme heat over Europe, Kirchengast et al., Weather and Climate Extremes Open Access 10.1016/j.wace.2026.100855

Diatom lipids open window to past ocean temperatures in the polar regions, Belt et al., Communications Earth & Environment Open Access pdf 10.1038/s43247-025-03177-1

Energy-conservation datasets of global land surface radiation and heat fluxes from 2000–2020 generated by CoSEB, Wang et al., Open Access 10.5194/essd-2025-456

Tracking surface ozone responses to clean air actions under a warming climate in China using machine learning, Fang et al., Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Open Access pdf 10.5194/acp-26-851-2026

Modeling, simulation & projection of climate change, effects

Anthropogenic warming projected to drive a decline in global tropical cyclone frequency in CMIP6 simulations, Zhao et al., npj Climate and Atmospheric Science Open Access 10.1038/s41612-026-01330-x

Coupled climate–land-use interactions modulate projected heatwave intensification across Africa, Adeyeri et al., Communications Earth & Environment Open Access pdf 10.1038/s43247-025-03110-6

New insights from the bias-corrected simulations of CMIP6 in Northern Hemisphere’s snow drought, Hu et al., Communications Earth & Environment Open Access 10.1038/s43247-026-03187-7

Observed and CMIP6 projected rainfall variability and change in drylands of southern Ethiopia, Chinasho et al., PLOS Climate Open Access 10.1371/journal.pclm.0000800

Projected Future Changes in the Withdrawal of Summer Monsoon over the Bay of Bengal and South China Sea, Cheng & Wang, Journal of Climate 10.1175/jcli-d-25-0357.1

Simulated Impact of Vegetation Greening on Summer Arctic Cyclone Intensity in the Northern Eurasia Margin in WRFs, Yang et al., International Journal of Climatology Open Access pdf 10.1002/joc.70175

Storylines of extreme summer temperatures in southern South America, Suli et al., Open Access 10.5194/egusphere-2025-3357

Summer Precipitation Long-Term Changes at Different Intensities in the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei Region From 1961 to 2014 and Simulation Performance Evaluation of CMIP6 Models, Gao et al., International Journal of Climatology 10.1002/joc.70222

Advancement of climate & climate effects modeling, simulation & projection

Bias Adjustment and the Question of Usable Climate Information: Methodological Assumptions and Value Judgments, Spuler et al., Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Open Access 10.1175/bams-d-25-0022.1

Complex Networks Reveal Climate Models' Capability in Simulating Global Synchronized Extreme Precipitation, Jiang et al., Geophysical Research Letters Open Access pdf 10.1029/2025gl118219

Comprehensive Evaluation of Precipitation Reanalysis Products and CMIP6 Models Using Statistical and Machine Learning Techniques With Nature-Inspired Optimization, Choudhary et al., International Journal of Climatology 10.1002/joc.70159

Evaluation of atmospheric sulfur dioxide simulated with the EMAC (version 2.55) Chemistry–Climate Model using satellite and ground-based observations, Makroum et al., Geoscientific Model Development Open Access pdf 10.5194/gmd-19-447-2026

Improved European heat event simulation in eddy-resolving climate models, Krüger et al., Communications Earth & Environment Open Access pdf 10.1038/s43247-025-03145-9

Mobile sensing discovery of when where and why vulnerable road users break traffic rules, Li et al., npj Sustainable Mobility and Transport Open Access pdf 10.1038/s44333-025-00068-y

Overestimation of past and future increases in global river flow by Earth system models, Zhang et al., Nature Geoscience 10.1038/s41561-025-01897-9

Cryosphere & climate change

A new era of bioclimatic extremes in the terrestrial Arctic, Aalto et al., Science Advances Open Access 10.1126/sciadv.adw5698

African contributions are missing from cryosphere research in Africa and worldwide, Asante et al., Frontiers in Earth Science Open Access pdf 10.3389/feart.2025.1691950

Bias-adjusted projections of snow cover over eastern Canada using an ensemble of regional climate models, Bresson et al., Open Access pdf 10.5194/egusphere-2025-3979

Creeping snow drought threatens Canada’s water supply, Sarpong et al., Communications Earth & Environment Open Access 10.1038/s43247-025-03162-8

Positive feedbacks drive the Greenland ice sheet evolution in millennial-length MAR–GISM simulations under a high-end warming scenario, Paice et al., Open Access 10.5194/egusphere-2025-2465

Post-2000 faster ENSO phase transitions amplify autumn sea ice loss in the Laptev–East Siberian Sea, Wang et al., Science Advances Open Access 10.1126/sciadv.aea3753

Prevailing thermal models underestimate permafrost thermal state in the Tibetan Plateau: Implications for cryosphere adaptation, Zhao et al., Advances in Climate Change Research Open Access 10.1016/j.accre.2025.12.009

Seasonal timing and preceding moisture regime mediate impacts of heavy rainfall events on High Arctic plant growth, Magnússon et al., Journal of Ecology 10.1111/1365-2745.70237

State dependent ice-sheet resonance under Cenozoic and future climates, Golledge et al., Communications Earth & Environment Open Access pdf 10.1038/s43247-025-03135-x

Sea level & climate change

Abrupt trend change in global mean sea level and its components in the early 2010s, Leclercq et al., Communications Earth & Environment Open Access pdf 10.1038/s43247-025-03149-5

Paleoclimate & paleogeochemistry

Contrasting evolution of the Arabian Sea and Pacific Ocean oxygen minimum zones during the Miocene, Hess et al., Communications Earth & Environment Open Access pdf 10.1038/s43247-025-03112-4

Biology & climate change, related geochemistry

21st-Century Mangrove Expansion Along the Southeastern United States, Enes Gramoso et al., Global Change Biology Open Access pdf 10.1111/gcb.70676

Accelerated Flowering and Differential Florigen Gene Expression of Seagrass Zostera marina Under Experimental Warming, Nolan et al., Ecology and Evolution Open Access 10.1002/ece3.72942

Acute Heat Priming Dampens Gene Expression Response to Thermal Stress in a Widespread Acropora Coral, Stick et al., Ecology and Evolution Open Access 10.1002/ece3.72938

Aligning climate-smart marine spatial planning and ecoscape restoration for global biodiversity recovery, Wedding et al., Nature Reviews Biodiversity 10.1038/s44358-025-00116-y

Assessing Habitat Suitability and Range Dynamics of Syzygium alternifolium (Wight) Walp Under Future Climatic Scenarios, PP et al., Ecology and Evolution Open Access pdf 10.1002/ece3.72861

Climate change impacts on Arctic ecosystems and associated feedbacks, Fauchald et al., Frontiers in Environmental Science Open Access pdf 10.3389/fenvs.2025.1747632

Commercial fishing amplifies impacts of increasing temperature on predator-prey interactions in marine ecosystems, Shurety et al., Nature Communications Open Access 10.1038/s41467-025-67362-8

Compounded effects of long-term warming and the exceptional 2023 marine heatwave on North Atlantic coccolithophore bloom dynamics, Guinaldo & Neukermans, Ocean Science Open Access pdf 10.5194/os-22-145-2026

Compounded effects of long-term warming and the exceptional 2023 marine heatwave on North Atlantic coccolithophore bloom dynamics, Guinaldo & Neukermans, Ocean Science Open Access pdf 10.5194/os-22-145-2026

Conservation Challenges and Opportunities for Fokienia hodginsii in the Wuyi Mountains Under Climate Change and Human Influence, Luo et al., Ecology and Evolution Open Access pdf 10.1002/ece3.72887

Editorial: Polluted ecosystems: how global climate change drives pollutant dynamics in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems, Ulus et al., Frontiers in Environmental Science Open Access pdf 10.3389/fenvs.2025.1772617

Exacerbated Impacts of Compound Dry-Hot Events on Vegetation: Critical Thresholds and Spatial Vulnerability Dynamics in Northwest China, Liu et al., International Journal of Climatology 10.1002/joc.70266

Freshwater subarctic wetlands are vulnerable to future thermal stress from climate warming, Adey et al., Communications Earth & Environment Open Access pdf 10.1038/s43247-025-03080-9

Functional group and aridity regulate impacts of climate change on plant phenology: a meta-analysis, Sun et al., Nature Communications Open Access pdf 10.1038/s41467-025-68242-x

Global Warming Drives Phenological Shifts and Hinders Reproductive Success in a Temperate Octocoral, Viladrich et al., Global Change Biology Open Access pdf 10.1111/gcb.70660

Heat but Not Cold Tolerance Is Phylogenetically Constrained in Greenlandic Terrestrial Arthropods Under Future Global Warming, Wesseltoft et al., Global Change Biology Open Access 10.1111/gcb.70687

Hidden Vulnerability: Extreme Drought Threatens Dryland Plant Communities Under Climate Change, Wilson et al., Global Change Biology 10.1111/gcb.70703

Impact of Climate Change and Human Activities on Suitable Distribution of Rhodiola Species in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau: Modeling Insights for Conservation Prioritization, Li et al., Ecology and Evolution Open Access 10.1002/ece3.72896

Intraspecific Niche Evolution in a Drought Deciduous Shrub With Implications for Climate Resiliency, Pennartz et al., Ecology and Evolution Open Access pdf 10.1002/ece3.72816

Karyotyping and Distribution Patterns of Endemic Chinese Lilies: Insights Into Their Conservation Under Climate Change, Gui et al., Ecology and Evolution Open Access pdf 10.1002/ece3.72824

Local Adaptation in Climate Tolerance at a Small Geographic Scale Contrasts With Broad Latitudinal Patterns, Walter et al., Open Access pdf 10.1101/2025.05.27.655235

Long-Term Records Reveal Temperature-Driven Nutrient Limitation and Predict Intensified Algal Blooms in Global Lakes, Zhou et al., Global Change Biology 10.1111/gcb.70719

Long-Term Trends in Global Natural Vegetation Greenness Rate and Its Climatic Drivers in a Warming World, An et al., Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences Open Access 10.1029/2025jg009089

Millennial-scale fire and climate dynamics in the world's largest tropical wetland show emerging fire threat to flooded ecosystems, Whitney et al., Open Access 10.2139/ssrn.5281340

Paleodistribution of Cercidiphyllaceae and Future Habitat Prediction for Cercidiphyllum japonicum Under Climate Change, Mao et al., Ecology and Evolution Open Access 10.1002/ece3.72940

Physiological Traits for Climate-Ready Restoration, Barton et al., Ecology and Evolution Open Access pdf 10.1002/ece3.72939

Predicting the fate of tropical forests under intensifying heat, Anderson-Teixeira & Anujan, Nature 10.1038/d41586-025-04093-2

Projecting Climate-Driven Habitat Loss in Highly Trafficked Lizards: The Role of Dispersal Limitations and Protected Areas, Valbuena?Fernandez et al., Diversity and Distributions Open Access pdf 10.1111/ddi.70140

Regional NDVI reconstruction over the last 600 years in Northwestern Patagonia reveals a rapid decline, Gallardo et al., Dendrochronologia 10.1016/j.dendro.2026.126475

Reimagining coral reef futures, Gianelli et al., npj Ocean Sustainability Open Access pdf 10.1038/s44183-025-00179-6

Significant northwest shift in suitable climate expected for North American bison by the year 2100, Shupinski et al., Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution Open Access 10.3389/fevo.2025.1695457

Soil Protist Diversity and Biotic Interactions Shape Ecosystem Functions Under Climate Change, Liu et al., Global Change Biology 10.1111/gcb.70692

Spring phenology of the Arctic Ocean shelf production system, Huserbråten & Vikebø, Communications Earth & Environment Open Access 10.1038/s43247-026-03192-w

Tree bark microbes for climate management, Gauci, Science 10.1126/science.aec9651

Tropical Montane Cloud Forests Have High Resilience to Five Years of Severe Soil Drought, Bartholomew et al., Global Change Biology Open Access 10.1111/gcb.70670

Tropicalization and biodiversity restructuring of calcifying plankton in a rapidly warming Mediterranean Sea, Lucas et al., Global and Planetary Change Open Access 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2026.105314

Warming drives non-stationary climate-growth relationships and differential drought sensitivity in Mediterranean pines, Campôa et al., Dendrochronologia Open Access 10.1016/j.dendro.2026.126469

Warming-induced changes in leaf phenology could amplify the effects of spring drought on tree seedlings, Muñoz-Mazón & Seidl, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 10.1016/j.agrformet.2026.111022

Was black spruce a good host of the spruce budworm in warmer periods of the Holocene? a long-term reconstruction, Terreaux de Félice et al., Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution Open Access 10.3389/fevo.2025.1682907

Widespread Phenological Shifts With Temperature in Alaska's Marine Fishes, Rogers et al., Global Change Biology Open Access pdf 10.1111/gcb.70708

GHG sources & sinks, flux, related geochemistry

Bark microbiota modulate climate-active gas fluxes in Australian forests, Leung et al., Science 10.1126/science.adu2182

Congo Basin Carbon Cycle Responses to Global Change, , Open Access 10.48577/jpl.llsnq0

Dynamic impacts of urbanization development on carbon storage and NPP: spatiotemporal responses in the Wanjiang urban belt (2000–2020), Fang et al., Frontiers in Environmental Science Open Access pdf 10.3389/fenvs.2026.1747268

Editorial: Impact of climate change on carbon sequestration in terrestrial ecosystems, He et al., Frontiers in Environmental Science Open Access pdf 10.3389/fenvs.2026.1778816

Frequent Droughts Reduce Carbon Stabilisation in Organo-Mineral Soils, Albanito et al., Global Change Biology Open Access pdf 10.1111/gcb.70657

Long-term impacts of mixotrophy on ocean carbon storage: insights from a 10 000 year global model simulation, Puglia et al., Biogeosciences Open Access pdf 10.5194/bg-23-463-2026

Mapping pan-Arctic riverine particulate organic carbon from space (1985 to 2022), Sun et al., Science Advances Open Access 10.1126/sciadv.ady6314

Multiple Global Change Stressors Boost Soil Greenhouse Gas Emissions Worldwide, Chen et al., Global Change Biology Open Access pdf 10.1111/gcb.70633

Optimal daily time windows for measuring fluxes of soil methane and nitrous oxide in subalpine forests are elusive - unlike for carbon dioxide, Peng et al., Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 10.1016/j.agrformet.2026.111026

Productivity-driven decoupling of microbial carbon use efficiency and respiration across global soils, Cui et al., Science Advances Open Access 10.1126/sciadv.adz5319

Reduced precipitation and increased temperature alter soil greenhouse gas fluxes in a Mediterranean forest, Villa-Sanabria et al., Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 10.1016/j.agrformet.2025.110994

Remapping carbon storage change in retired farmlands on the Loess Plateau in China from 2000–2021 in high spatiotemporal resolution, Guo et al., Earth System Science Data Open Access pdf 10.5194/essd-18-429-2026

Spatiotemporal variability and environmental controls on aquatic methane emissions in an Arctic permafrost catchment, Thayne et al., Biogeosciences Open Access 10.5194/bg-23-477-2026

CO2 capture, sequestration science & engineering

Enhancing carbon sinks in China using a spatially-optimized forestation strategy, Dong et al., Nature Communications Open Access pdf 10.1038/s41467-026-68288-5

Fossil-fuel phase out is not enough: countries must remove atmospheric carbon, Clarke & Maslin, Nature 10.1038/d41586-026-00211-w

Seaweed farms enhance alkalinity production and carbon capture, Fakhraee & Planavsky, Communications Sustainability Open Access pdf 10.1038/s44458-025-00004-8

Sonic velocity discontinuity for CO2 brine mixtures in the context of carbon storage in aquifers, Norouzi et al., Frontiers in Earth Science Open Access pdf 10.3389/feart.2025.1758092

The carbon dioxide removal potential of cement and lime kiln dust via ocean alkalinity enhancement, Flipkens et al., Open Access pdf 10.5194/egusphere-2025-4887

Decarbonization

A critical meta-survey of the lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions of hydrogen energy systems, Sovacool et al., Energy Research & Social Science Open Access 10.1016/j.erss.2025.104461

Mapping Europe’s rooftop photovoltaic potential with a building-level database, Kakoulaki et al., Nature Energy Open Access 10.1038/s41560-025-01947-x

Role of avoided emissions scheme and estimation of contributions of electric vehicles and heat pumps to reduction in global emissions, Akimoto et al., Carbon Management Open Access 10.1080/17583004.2026.2614424

Satisficing devices: Co-benefits in practice to decarbonize New York City's residential buildings, Bhardwaj et al., Energy Research & Social Science 10.1016/j.erss.2025.104512

Uncovering the potential of coal-to-nuclear in the energy low-carbon transition, ZHOU et al., Advances in Climate Change Research Open Access 10.1016/j.accre.2026.01.001

Geoengineering climate

Influence of Surface Aerosol Injection on Stratocumulus-to-Cumulus Transition: Cloud-Surface Coupling and Background Aerosol Concentrations, Zhang et al., Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres Open Access 10.1029/2025jd044444

Ocean alkalinity enhancement in an estuary, Ho et al., Frontiers in Climate Open Access pdf 10.3389/fclim.2025.1665329

 Climate change communications & cognition

Dissent and obstruction: A systematic literature review of the climate countermovement, Eskridge-Aldama et al., Energy Research & Social Science 10.1016/j.erss.2025.104529

Greater perceived fossil fuel reliance predicts lower support for systemic climate policies, Klebl et al., Journal of Environmental Psychology Open Access 10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102898

Learning the hard way: Applying a climate literacy approach to extreme weather experience — Evidence from Poland, Kurowski & Wites, Weather and Climate Extremes Open Access 10.1016/j.wace.2026.100851

Selective intersectionality: far-right populist Re-casting of social discontent in Europe’s green transition, Yazar et al., Environmental Politics Open Access 10.1080/09644016.2026.2612815

The role of climate and migration concerns in shaping personal economic insecurity in european societies, Liashenko et al., Energy Research & Social Science Open Access 10.1016/j.erss.2026.104533

“Why didn’t the sirens wail on the roofs?”: political framing competition in the German parliament following the 2021 floods, Wyss & Chiru, Environmental Politics Open Access 10.1080/09644016.2025.2609431

Agronomy, animal husbundry, food production & climate change

A scoping review of literature on adoption and impact of climate smart agricultural technologies by smallholder farmers in Africa, Rurii & Nzengya Daniel, Frontiers in Climate Open Access pdf 10.3389/fclim.2025.1692929

Associating climate change mitigation with protein security: The case of Ireland, Merlo et al., Environmental Science & Policy Open Access 10.1016/j.envsci.2026.104311

Bamboo for climate resilience: green gold of ecosystems in the UN SDG Framework, Mandaliya, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution Open Access pdf 10.3389/fevo.2025.1723994

Climate change has increased crop water consumption in Central Asia despite less water-intensive cropping, Peña-Guerrero et al., Communications Earth & Environment Open Access 10.1038/s43247-025-03142-y

Climate Change Risks and Climate Adaptation in Agro-Processing Enterprises, Mazenda et al., Climate Resilience and Sustainability Open Access pdf 10.1002/cli2.70030

Climate-resilient agri-food systems: analyzing yield trends and overcoming adoption barriers, Durgude et al., Environment, Development and Sustainability 10.1007/s10668-025-07186-0

Commercial fishing amplifies impacts of increasing temperature on predator-prey interactions in marine ecosystems, Shurety et al., Nature Communications Open Access 10.1038/s41467-025-67362-8

Compound Drought and Temperature Events Intensify Wheat Yield Loss in Australia, Li et al., Earth's Future Open Access 10.1029/2023ef004124

Grazing influences salt marsh greenhouse gas balance mediated by plant-specific methane emissions, Yang et al., Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 10.1016/j.agrformet.2025.111001

Modeling Climate Change Impacts on a Socioeconomically Vital Plant: The Case of Comanthera elegans (Goldenfoot Flower), de Azevedo et al., Ecology and Evolution Open Access pdf 10.1002/ece3.72031

Natural grasslands used for grazing livestock can mitigate climate change, Pillar & Winck, Science 10.1126/science.aea8344

Projected shifts in climate and spring barley yields under future (CMIP6) scenarios across eight environmental zones in Europe, Köster et al., Open Access 10.2139/ssrn.5380175

Seaweed farms enhance alkalinity production and carbon capture, Fakhraee & Planavsky, Communications Sustainability Open Access pdf 10.1038/s44458-025-00004-8

Strong mismatch in climate change adaptation between intentions of private forest owners in Canada and institutional support, Fouqueray et al., Communications Earth & Environment Open Access pdf 10.1038/s43247-025-02942-6

Sycamore maple (Acer pseudoplatanus L.) and global climate change: a new perspective for sustainable forestry, Vacek et al., Frontiers in Forests and Global Change Open Access pdf 10.3389/ffgc.2025.1731092

Tailoring Australian carbon farming can realise greater co-benefits, Bhattarai et al., Nature Communications Open Access 10.1038/s41467-026-68628-5

Unpacking the growth of global agricultural greenhouse gas emissions, Ortiz-Bobea & Pieralli, Science Advances Open Access 10.1126/sciadv.aeb8653

Hydrology, hydrometeorology & climate change

An Assessment of Extreme Precipitation Trends in the Missouri River Basin: Insights From Three Gridded Precipitation Data Sets and Climate Indices, Gupta et al., International Journal of Climatology Open Access pdf 10.1002/joc.70163

Climatological Analysis of the 2022–2023 Unprecedented Dry Period in Southwestern Uruguay, Deagosto & Barreiro, International Journal of Climatology 10.1002/joc.70260

Creeping snow drought threatens Canada’s water supply, Sarpong et al., Communications Earth & Environment Open Access 10.1038/s43247-025-03162-8

Evaluation of Present and Future Relationships Between Daily Precipitation and Temperature in Eastern China, Wu et al., International Journal of Climatology Open Access pdf 10.1002/joc.70168

Global monsoon variability in a 1.5 °C warming climate: Observational changes and end-century projections, Kemarau et al., Atmospheric Research 10.1016/j.atmosres.2026.108765

High resolution simulation of urban compound flooding under climate impacts, Amini et al., Urban Climate 10.1016/j.uclim.2026.102771

Irreversibility of extreme precipitation intensity in global monsoon areas under multiple carbon neutrality scenarios, Miah et al., Weather and Climate Extremes Open Access 10.1016/j.wace.2025.100843

Projected Future Changes in the Withdrawal of Summer Monsoon over the Bay of Bengal and South China Sea, Cheng & Wang, Journal of Climate 10.1175/jcli-d-25-0357.1

Trends and Circulation Conditions of Precipitation Over the Sudeten Mountains (Central Europe) in the Years 1961–2020, Ojrzy?ska et al., International Journal of Climatology Open Access pdf 10.1002/joc.70256

Climate change economics

Accounting for ocean impacts nearly doubles the social cost of carbon, Bastien-Olvera et al., Nature Climate Change 10.1038/s41558-025-02533-5

Climate change mitigation public policy research

A coalition on compliance carbon markets to make climate clubs politically feasible, Koppenborg, Nature Climate Change 10.1038/s41558-025-02541-5

A Note on Effects of Fossil Fuel Reduction Policies on Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Buildup and Global Warming, Alagoz et al., Journal of Atmospheric and Solar 10.1016/j.jastp.2026.106724

Aligning EU energy security and climate mitigation through targeted transition strategies, Lal et al., Nature Communications Open Access pdf 10.1038/s41467-025-67595-7

Emission degrowth potential of Chinese city cluster toward carbon neutrality: The climate planetary boundaries perspective, Li et al., Urban Climate 10.1016/j.uclim.2026.102776

How does climate policy uncertainty influence energy consumption transition in China: evidence from 277 cities, Wei et al., Frontiers in Environmental Science Open Access pdf 10.3389/fenvs.2025.1744044

The role of carbon labels for consumer decisions: evidence from a class of Chinese students, Liu & Wang, Frontiers in Climate Open Access pdf 10.3389/fclim.2025.1708974

Understanding policymaker support of energy decarbonization policies for buildings, Dorsey-Palmateer et al., Energy Research & Social Science 10.1016/j.erss.2026.104536

When a forest is masked by trees: How French subsurface industries involved in decarbonisation and transition policies are instrumentalising poor social acceptance, Arnauld de Sartre & Chailleux, Energy Research & Social Science Open Access 10.1016/j.erss.2025.104517

Climate change adaptation & adaptation public policy research

A habitability lens to boost effective local climate adaptation, Magnan et al., Environmental Science & Policy 10.1016/j.envsci.2026.104323

Assessing climate change impacts on military academies: a comparative analysis of the United States Military Academy and the South African Military Academy, Read et al., Climate Risk Management Open Access 10.1016/j.crm.2025.100784

Co-designing soft climate adaptation: citizen centred solutions across four European pilots, Jost et al., Frontiers in Climate Open Access pdf 10.3389/fclim.2025.1738479

Coastal flood risk to European surface transport infrastructure at different global warming levels, Nawarat et al., Nature Climate Change Open Access 10.1038/s41558-025-02510-y

Determinants of Household Adaptation to Climate Vulnerability in Wetland Areas of Bangladesh: An Empirical Estimation, Bithi et al., Climate Resilience and Sustainability Open Access 10.1002/cli2.70028

Exploring nature-based solutions’ effectiveness indicators for climate change adaptation: a systematic review, Horneman et al., Frontiers in Environmental Science Open Access pdf 10.3389/fenvs.2025.1603919

Forging Common Paths: A Systematic Review of Co-Creation and Collaborative Learning in Adaptation Pathways, Sommerauer et al., WIREs Climate Change Open Access pdf 10.1002/wcc.70038

Impacts of global warming on coastal flood risk to European surface transport infrastructure, , Nature Climate Change 10.1038/s41558-025-02518-4

Moving on the edge: climate change-induced hazards and the politics of (im)mobility in Rohingya refugee camps, Rafa, Climate and Development 10.1080/17565529.2025.2609772

Strategies to strengthen institutional capacities for climate-resilient coastal socio-ecological systems in Bangladesh, Roy et al., Climate and Development 10.1080/17565529.2026.2617374

Taking values seriously for transformational climate change adaptation, Calliari et al., Open Access 10.2139/ssrn.5658900

The gap between attitudes and action within the US geoscience community's response to natural hazards, Gonzales et al., Geoscience Communication Open Access 10.5194/gc-9-35-2026

Urban climate resilience governance in the Yangtze River Economic Belt: A novel approach based on integrating RAVT framework with SDGs, Yang & Li, Urban Climate 10.1016/j.uclim.2025.102702

Urban Heat Island in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East: Multi-City Approach in Regional Climate Modelling, Constantinidou et al., International Journal of Climatology Open Access 10.1002/joc.70255

Climate change impacts on human health

Development and validation of the Global Urban Heat Vulnerability Index (GUHVI), Turner et al., Urban Climate Open Access 10.1016/j.uclim.2025.102716

Emerging heat stress patterns across India under future climate scenarios, Molina et al., Scientific Reports Open Access pdf 10.1038/s41598-026-36299-3

Mapping Diurnal Heat Stress in Nigeria: Spatial and Temporal Changes Over Seven Decades, Nasara et al., International Journal of Climatology 10.1002/joc.70262

The shift of heat-related respiratory mortality from 2005 to 2019 in China and its socioeconomic determinants, Ji et al., Climate Risk Management Open Access 10.1016/j.crm.2026.100789

Climate change impacts on human culture

Climate change and ocean acidification pose a risk to underwater cultural heritage, Germinario et al., Communications Earth & Environment Open Access pdf 10.1038/s43247-026-03184-w

Other

Exploring water-energy-food nexus connections between climate action and regional development in the East African community, Wambua et al., Climate Risk Management Open Access 10.1016/j.crm.2025.100760

Large carbon dioxide emissions avoidance potential in improved commercial air transport efficiency, Gössling et al., Communications Earth & Environment Open Access 10.1038/s43247-025-03069-4

Millennial-scale fire and climate dynamics in the world's largest tropical wetland show emerging fire threat to flooded ecosystems, Whitney et al., Open Access 10.2139/ssrn.5281340

Informed opinion, nudges & major initiatives

Defossilize our chemical world, , Nature Open Access pdf 10.1038/d41586-026-00005-0

Extreme weather event accountability, , Nature Geoscience Open Access pdf 10.1038/s41561-025-01904-z

The US is quitting 66 global agencies: what does it mean for science?, Castelvecchi & Masood, Nature 10.1038/d41586-026-00102-0 

Articles/Reports from Agencies and Non-Governmental Organizations Addressing Aspects of Climate Change

Global Temperature Report for 2025, Berkeley Earth

2025 was the third warmest year on Earth since 1850. It is exceeded only by 2024 and 2023. This period, since 1850, is the time when sufficient direct measurements from thermometers exist to create a purely instrumental estimate of changes in global mean temperature. The analysis combines 23 million monthly-average thermometer measurements from 57,685 weather stations with ~500 million instantaneous ocean temperature observations collected by ships and buoys. The last 11 years have included all 11 of the warmest years observed in the instrumental record, with the last 3 years including all of the top 3 warmest.

Assessing the Global Temperature and Precipitation Analysis in 2025, National Centers for Environmental Information, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

2025 ranks as the third-warmest yea Upper ocean heat content was record high in 2025. Annual sea ice extent for both the Arctic and Antarctic regions ranked among the three lowest years on record. The Northern Hemisphere snow cover extent was the third lowest on record. There were 101 named tropical storms across the globe in 2025, which was above average.

Higher Energy Bills, Lost Jobs, and Growing Uncertainty: How Trump’s War on Clean Energy is Hurting Massachusetts Families, Offices of Senators Elizabeth Warren and Edward Markey

To understand how Massachusetts residents are impacted by the Trump Administration’s attacks on clean energy, our offices interviewed thirteen Mas communities in the Commonwealth. President Trump’s attacks on clean energy projects have meant that over $8.6 billion in investment has been lost or delayed in Massachusetts, costing over 16,750 jobs. More than 165,000 jobs have been lost or delayed in the U.S. clean energy sector. More than $53 billion in private investment has been lost or delayed 324 projects across the country have been delayed, been cancelled, or laid off staff.

Who’s Obstructing Climate Action in the Rhode Island Legislature?, Culhane et al., The Climate and Development Lab, Brown University

After stunning successes in 2021 and 2022, climate action has slowed in Rhode Island. Why have outcomes in the same state been so different? Why do so many climate and clean energy bills die in the legislature? What are the barriers to climate legislation in Rhode Island? Who is obstructing state climate legislation, and what strategies are they using? What approaches are being proposed in the 2025 Climate Action Strategy, and how have neighboring states moved forward on them? The authors seek to answer those questions in ways that provide actionable information to advocates and insights for political observers. For example, Rhode Island Energy, owned by Pennsylvania Power and Light (PPL), spent the most on lobbying (in the years it has been active) and was the most active opponent of environmental groups on climate and energy bills in our study period. Business coalitions and the RI Public Utilities Commission (PUC) are frequent opponents of climate policies. Rhode Island’s 2025 Climate Action Strategy proposes interventions that have been introduced in past legislative sessions--and faced resistance. Rhode Island has key state-level constraints that have posed barriers to climate action.

WMO confirms 2025 was one of warmest years on record, World Meteorological Organization

The global average surface temperature was 1.44 °C (with a margin of uncertainty of ± 0.13 °C) above the 1850-1900 average, according to WMO’s consolidated analysis of eight datasets. Two of these datasets ranked 2025 as the second warmest year in the 176-year record, and the other six ranked it as the third warmest year. The past 11 years have been 11 warmest on record. Temporary cooling by La Niña does not reverse the monotonic trend. International data exchange underpins climate monitoring datasets for a single authoritative source of information.

Climate change presses on: Devastating wildfires and intense thunderstorms exacerbate losses for insurers, Munich Re

Natural disaster figures for 2025: Costliest claims year to date regarding non-peak perils: Wildfires, flooding and severe thunderstorms account for almost all insured losses. Insured losses once again above the US$ 100bn mark; total global losses lower than the 10-year average. Hurricane Melissa devastates Jamaica; USA dodges direct hurricane hit for first time in ten years. Fatalities totaling 17,200 significantly higher than in 2024, but below long-term average. Climate change does not let up: 2025 one of the warmest years ever.

Global EV sales reach 20.7 million units in 2025, growing by 20%, Rho Motion

The authors report that 2.1 million electric vehicles were sold globally in December. 

Tracking the energy transition: Where are we now?, Barth etal., McKinsey and Company

Following our first stock take in 2024, the authors conducted a follow-up review of the energy transition in 2025 by evaluating the deployment of clean energy technologies in key regions against net-zero targets. The authors reexamine the question, “Is the world on track to reach its 2030 low-carbon technology build-out plan?” To answer it, they evaluate nine key decarbonization technologies across China, Europe, which in the analysis includes the European U are currently on track to reach their 2030 clean technology targets. While reaching net zero will require more than just these nine technologies to be scaled up, their current status serves as a clear indicator of whether these regions are on track to reach net zero by 2050.

Who is most Worried about Heat and Air Pollution in India?, Verner et al., Yale Program on Climate Change Communication

Most people in India are worried about severe heat and air pollution in their local area. Younger and middle-aged adults are more likely than older adults to be “very worried” about severe heat and air pollution. Indians with Bachelor’s degree or higher are more likely to be very worried about severe air pollution.

New Mexico 360 Groundwater Report, Follingstad et al., New Mexico Groundwater Alliance Members

Treat aquifers as critical infrastructure. Accelerate aquifer mapping, monitoring, and characterization. Expand statewide groundwater metering. Develop a statewide groundwater management framework to guide local management. Ensure that groundwater is fully understood and addressed in regional water planning and other community-based conservation initiatives.

Global Risks Report 2026, Elsner et al., World Economic Forum

The authors analyze global risks through three timeframes to support decision-makers in balancing current crises and longer-term priorities. Chapter 1 presents the findings of this year’s Global Risks Perception Survey (GRPS), which captures insights from over 1,300 experts worldwide. It explores risks in the current or immediate term (in 2026), the short-to-medium term (to 2028) and in the long term (to 2036). Chapter 2 explores the range of implications of these risks and their interconnections, through six in-depth analyses of selected themes. Uncertainty is the defining theme of the global risks outlook in 2026. GRPS respondents viewed both the short- and long-term global outlook negatively, with 50% of respondents anticipating either a turbulent or stormy outlook over the next two years, deteriorating to 57% of respondents over the next 10 years. A further 40% and 32%, respectively, view the global outlook as unsettled over the two- and 10-year time frames, with only 1% anticipating a calm outlook across each time horizon. As global risks continue to spiral in scale, interconnectivity and velocity, 2026 marks an age of competition. As cooperative mechanisms crumble, with governments retreating from multilateral frameworks, stability is under siege. A contested multipolar landscape is emerging where confrontation is replacing collaboration, and trust – the currency of cooperation – is losing its value.

Carbon farming in organic agriculture. Considerations under EU policy, Lisa Sinnhuber, Research Institute of Organic Agriculture and IFOAM Organics Europe

The author outlines the challenges that organic farmers face within current carbon crediting schemes, and sets out guidelines on what to consider before participating in carbon farming initiatives.

Reenergizing Nuclear, Houwink et al., Columbia Business School

Properly managed nuclear is safe, land efficient, and low waste compared with other energy sources. Nuclear energy use has decreased from its peak of 17% to 9% today, and deployments have moved from Europe and the United States to India and China. Nuclear is expected to generate 7% to 11% of global electricity by 2050, growing capacity 1.5 to 3x. There are four pathways for the future of nuclear power: Extending the lifetime of nuclear plants, which has the lowest LCOE and can be safe; building new large reactors, which would significantly reduce emissions but is costly and time intensive; building small modular reactors (SMRs), which provide more flexible nuclear power, but LCOE is still highly uncertain; and nuclear fusion, which addresses many of nuclear’s problems, if the technology can be commercialized.

Solar met 61% of US electricity demand growth in 2025, Jones et al., Ember

Solar generation met a large proportion of US electricity demand growth in 2025, including in regions where demand rose most. It met all the rise in daytime electricity demand and, supported by batteries, also met much of the rise in evening electricity demand.

Renewable Energy and Jobs. Annual Review 2025, Renner et al., The International Renewable Energy Agency and the International Labour Organization

The authors show that renewable energy employment worldwide has continued to grow. They estimate there are at least 16.6 million jobs in renewable energy employment globally. Despite record capacity additions in 2024, employment growth was moderated by economies of scale; automation and other forms of technological innovation; excess equipment manufacturing capacity; and grid bottlenecks leading to curtailment of electricity generation. The authors found that women still face barriers to hiring and career advancement, and people with disabilities are only just beginning to receive more opportunities. They conclude that the human side of renewable energy is still too often overlooked or taken for granted. Continued growth in renewable energy deployment will keep adding to employment in the sector. This means that education and training need to be a key component of a comprehensive policy approach that brings together deployment support, finance and investment, industrial and trade policies for supply chain building, economic development and revitalization, and inclusive workforce development.

Global Water Bankruptcy. Living Beyond our Hydrological Means in the Post-Crisis Era, Madani et al., United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health

The authors argue that the world has entered a new stage: more and more river basins and aquifers are losing the ability to return to their historical “normal.” Droughts, shortages, and pollution episodes that once looked like temporary shocks are becoming chronic in many places, signaling a post-crisis condition the author calls water bankruptcy. The authors propose that a fundamental shift is needed in the global water agenda—from repeatedly reacting to emergencies to “bankruptcy management.” That means confronting overshoot with transparent water accounting, enforceable limits, and protection of the water-related natural capital that produces and stores water—aquifers, wetlands, soils, rivers, and glaciers—while ensuring transitions are explicitly equity-oriented and protect vulnerable communities and livelihoods. Crucially, the authors frame water not only as a growing source of risk, but also as a strategic opportunity in a fragmented world. It argues that serious investment in water can unlock progress across climate, biodiversity, land, food, and health, and serve as a practical platform for cooperation within and between societies. Acting early, before stress hardens into irreversible loss, can reduce shared risks, strengthen resilience, and rebuild trust through tangible results.

Insurance and reinsurance under climate stress: managing systemic risk in global supply chains, Mikael Mikaelsson, Stockholm Environment Institute

As climate change accelerates, global supply chains – long optimized for efficiency rather than resilience – are increasingly exposed to a rising tide of climate-related disruptions. These shocks are rarely isolated. They cascade across borders and sectors, disrupting production, logistics, and trade in ways that reveal deep systemic vulnerabilities in the arteries of the global economy. At the same time insurance and reinsurance, the financial mechanisms historically relied upon to absorb such shocks, are being tested by the growing complexity, frequency, and severity of climate hazards. The author draws on a literature review and expert consultations with senior climate risk specialists across the European (re)insurance ecosystem to explore how insurance interacts with climate vulnerability in key sectors and supply chains. They also investigate the changing nature of insurance in a world of compounding risk, and outline what this means for economic stability, sectoral preparedness, and future adaptation efforts.

Climate Update 2026: Social Perspectives on the Climate Protection Debate, More on Common

How do people in Germany view the climate protection debate at the beginning of 2026? New data show that despite increased competition from other political and social challenges, support for climate action remains high. However, it is important to strengthen confidence to ensure a fair and forward-looking implementation. The authors analyze how attitudes, expectations, and key areas of tension have developed in the climate protection debate in Germany. The study builds on our many years of research and offers the current social context for all those who work politically, civil society or communicatively on climate protection issues.

Neighborhood Scale Building Decarbonization. A Toolkit for Advocates and Implementers, Zoë Cina-Sklar and Sonal Jessel, Climate and Community Institute

Neighborhood-scale building decarbonization shifts the unit of building decarbonization from the building to the block, from the individual to the community. By approaching decarbonization at the scale of a block or a neighborhood, all residents in the chosen geography benefit and per-home project costs can decrease through economies of scale. Importantly, it also helps manage the gas transition and ensure that lower-income households are not stuck on aging gas infrastructure. When done right, it can also offer an opportunity to go beyond simply installing electric appliances to also address environmental toxins, improve energy efficiency, and install solar and battery storage. This approach lowers utility bills and creates healthy homes for all residents, regardless of whether they are rich or own their home.

Nature security assessment on global biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and national security, Government of the United Kingdom

This assessment is an analysis of how global biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse could affect UK national security. It shows how environmental degradation can disrupt food, water, health and supply chains, and trigger wider geopolitical instability. It identifies 6 ecosystems of strategic importance for the UK and explores how their decline could drive cascading global impacts. This assessment supports long-term resilience planning. Publishing the assessment highlights opportunities for innovation, green finance and global partnerships that can drive growth while safeguarding the ecosystems that underpin our collective security and prosperity. About New Research

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Minneapolis, MN (January 21, 2026) | The Center for Earth, Energy & Democracy (CEED) stands in solidarity with Minnesota’s immigrant communities and those mobilizing to protect them, and supports this Friday’s ICE OUT Minnesota: Day of Truth & Freedom general strike, march and rally. Across Minnesota, we will use our collective action to pause the economy and take action to be heard on January 23.

Our communities in Minnesota are living through an ongoing escalation of violence and fear due to a surge of ICE raids and brutality that have terrorized Black, Brown, Indigenous and immigrant families across the state. 

On January 23, hundreds of local organizations, faith groups, unions and businesses are joining forces to call for ICE and other federal forces to leave Minnesota immediately. Together, we are calling for accountability for ICE’s unlawful attacks on our communities and demanding an end to funding for ICE and its racist agenda of raids and brutality. We are also calling on Minnesotan and national companies to stop doing business with ICE and assert 4th Amendment rights by refusing ICE entry into their businesses. Join us at the march and rally in downtown Minneapolis at 2:00 PM on January 23. 

Why CEED Stands in Solidarity with ICE OUT Minnesota

Environmental justice and immigrant justice are inseparable. The same systems that extract wealth from communities and devastate the land also criminalize migration and exploit immigrant workers. Immigrant communities are on the frontlines of the climate crisis and pollution, while also facing  disproportionate enforcement, surveillance, and displacement. As we organize for community-controlled renewable energy and local economic alternatives, we must oppose all forms of state violence against the communities building these alternatives.

There can be no democracy without justice. CEED’s vision of energy democracy depends on robust democratic institutions, constitutional protections, and the ability of communities to organize without fear. The human rights violations documented by ICE in Minnesota—including illegal detentions, warrantless stops, and the killing of Renee Nicole Good—undermine the very democratic foundations our work depends upon. When federal agents operate outside the law with impunity, it weakens all our rights to organize, speak out, and challenge systems of extraction and oppression.

A just transition requires justice for all. CEED’s work centers the leadership of frontline communities in building a regenerative economy rooted in energy democracy and community control. The ICE surge terrorizing Minnesota communities which cost Renee Nicole Good her life is a direct attack on the communities we work alongside. There can be no just transition when we live under threat of detention, family separation, and state violence.

Despite the attacks on our communities, we are seeing a powerful outpouring of solidarity through mutual aid efforts here in Minnesota. Volunteers are going door to door and distributing groceries to vulnerable neighbors, while mothers are patrolling the streets to document and deter immigration raids. Lawyers are out in the streets defending the right to protest, while neighbors are raising funds to pay for legal fees and bonds.

CEED recognizes that our staff, partners, and communities across Minnesota are directly impacted by ICE activities. We see you, we stand with you, and we commit to using our voice and resources to support this urgent call for justice, accountability, and human rights.

CEED encourages staff and partners in Minnesota to support these efforts and participate in ICE OUT Minnesota: Day of Truth & Freedom on January 23, in ways that feel right, and if they choose to do so. You can learn more and sign the pledge at iceoutnowmn.com

From our home in Minneapolis, the Center for Earth Energy and Democracy (CEED) works toward just transition, energy democracy, and climate justice at state, regional and national levels. We believe that front line communities must lead the transition from an extractive economy to one rooted in regeneration, cooperation, and community control.

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