National Teach-In: Noncooperation with Trump

By Aviva Chomsky, Norman Solomon , India Walton , Simone Chun , Alexandria Shaner

 March 28, 2025

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What can ordinary, busy people do about a U.S. government and society quickly swinging toward fascism? What do we know from the past and present and around the world about what works? Where do we start? How do we continue?

ZNetwork.org teamed up with RootsAction to co-host this National Teach-In as part of a new project: TeachInNetwork.org | recorded on 3-20-25

Featuring:

Aviva Chomsky, Professor of History and Coordinator of Latin American Studies, Salem State University

Norman Solomon, National director of RootsAction.org and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy.

Alex Marquardt, Executive Director, Climate Defense Project

Kira Kelley, Staff Attorney, Climate Defense Project

India Walton, Senior Strategist at RootsAction, community activist in Buffalo, NY

Alexandria Shaner, ZNetwork.org staff and writer for Extinction Rebellion

Simone Chun, researcher and activist focusing on inter-Korean relations, on the Korea Policy Institute Board of Directors and the advisory board for CODEPINK

Hosted by Ryan Black from RootsAction

Click here to watch with transcript.

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Aviva Chomsky

Aviva Chomsky is a prolific American historian, author, and activist, and has been active in Latin American solidarity and immigrants’ rights issues since the 1980s. She currently teaches at Salem State University in Massachusetts, where she is also the coordinator of the Latin American studies program. She previously was a research associate at Harvard University, where she specialized in Caribbean and Latin American history. Her book West Indian Workers and the United Fruit Company in Costa Rica 1870–1940 was awarded the 1997 Best Book Prize by the New England Council of Latin American Studies. She is also the author of many other books like Linked Labor Histories: New England, Colombia, and the Making of a Global Working Class. Her articles on immigration rights have appeared in The Nation, HuffPost and and TomDispatch.