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Frida Berrigan

Frida Berrigan is the author of It Runs In The Family: On Being Raised by Radicals and Growing into Rebellious Motherhood. She is a TomDispatchregular and writes the Little Insurrections column for WagingNonviolence.Org. She has three children and lives in New London, Connecticut, where she is a gardener and community organizer who is now running for mayor as a member of the Green Party.

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Sometimes we can make our own hope

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Climate change activists take part in the international Strike for Climate protest in Los Angeles on May 24, 2019. (Getty/Frederic J. Brown)

Protecting the children on a Trumpian planet

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Protestors hold placards as they march during a Rise for the Climate demonstration in Brussels, Sunday, Jan. 27, 2019. (AP/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

Parenting the climate-change generation

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Climate change, nuclear war and the end of the world

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What it’s like to grow up with the constant threat of violence

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A mother confronts a world on fire

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Mike Pence and Paul Ryan applaud as Donald Trump arrives to deliver his first address to a joint session of Congress from the floor of the House of Representatives, February 28, 2017. (Reuters/Jim Lo Scalzo)

Growing my way out of dystopia

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Protesters gather for a Women's March in Oslo, Norway, Saturday Jan. 21, 2017. The march is being held in solidarity with the Women's March in Washington, and other cities worldwide, advocating women's rights and opposing Donald Trump's U.S. presidency. (Stian Lysberg Solum / NTB Scanpix via AP) (AP)

The new patriotism: Loving America and resisting President Trump, a one-man 9/11

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Stop judging me for shopping with food stamps

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