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Historic Gaza protests at Columbia U. enter day 6; campus protests spread across country
Solidarity protests and encampments have now sprouted up on campuses across the country, including at Yale, MIT, Tufts, NYU, The New School and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
ALEC Influence in Ohio Greases Skids for Anti-Protest Bill
The bill, the "Critical Infrastructure Protection Act," being pushed by ALEC around the country makes it a felony for protestors to trespass on energy company property, such as pipelines, refineries, and power plants.
Why Trumpcare is giving Senate Republicans heartburn
Senate Republicans won’t get near a single payer. So they’ll have to strengthen the Affordable Care Act.
Global elite gain $33.9 trillion as poverty fight collapses, Oxfam warns ahead of global...
A decade after world leaders pledged to end inequality and poverty, the richest 1 percent have captured explosive wealth while development goals fall dangerously off track.
Civil Rights: From Sundance, to Selma, to South Carolina
In 1915 one of the most nakedly racist films was screened in the White House. One hundred years later a very different film, directed by an African-American woman, was screened there. Change happens, slowly, but it happens. Could the birth of a new nation be at hand?
One Southern Leader Bridges Civil Rights’ Past and Black Lives Matter’s Future
Irving Allen on creating an inclusive movement. “You’re not organizing unless you’re training up the next generation.”
Federal judge blocks construction of Keystone XL pipeline over climate concerns
“The Department … simply discarded prior factual findings related to climate change to support its course reversal.”
Environmental education is falling short. Activism can help
n an environmental studies class in a secondary school in a South African township, the teacher takes the students outside into the...
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Chair: Obama’s Legacy Rests on Whether He Stops Dakota Access...
A decision on whether the pipeline can proceed under the river rests with the Army Corps of Engineers.