29 Arrested as Single-Payer Advocates Disrupt Vermont Gov. Shumlin’s Inauguration
During Gov. Peter Shumlin’s recent inaugural address, protesters took part in a sit-in desiring single-payer healthcare, which the governor had promised to create. Those participating in the sit-in were arrested on spot.
Three Deputies Arrested for Beating Mentally Ill Man to Death
Three Sheriff's deputies in Northern California have just been arrested for beating a man to death in his jail cell. The deputies are being charged with murder, conspiracy and assault under the color of authority.
From ‘Demos’ to ‘Podemos’: Popular Uprisings in Greece and Spain
The future of Europe is in flux, as popular movements in Greece and Spain gain power and challenge traditional economic and political systems. The global economic crisis created enormous suffering for billions around the world, but it also created an opening.
Plaguing the Americas with Misery in the Name of Liberty
From the January invasion of Venezuela to a $20 billion bailout for Argentina's Milei, the authors trace how Washington's money, military and media reach are driving a rightward turn across Latin America.
In defense of the human individual
In essence, the foundation of any strategy for human survival must be the powerful individual.
State Terror Against People of Color
Too many families are unable to find social justice because they are rendered invisible by the media and crushed by poverty. And this nightmare they are living will only grow as poverty and inequality expand.
SCOTUS opinion says states can block Medicaid money for health services at Planned Parenthood
Justice Neil Gorsuch and five other justices found that "while Medicaid law allows people choose their own provider, that does not make it a right enforceable in court in the case."
Louisiana’s tough-on-crime policies stand to cost taxpayers millions more for years to come
The governor’s office has dismissed experts’ concerns that his criminal justice rollbacks could swell the prison population and plunge the state into financial disaster. We analyzed how his policies have already begun to impact the state.
Resistance works
How small groups took on great powers and won a victory for decolonization, Africa, indigenous peoples, and more.
Banned from protesting in the nation’s capital for five years back in 1967
Back in October 1967, I was one of hundreds arrested and beaten on the Mall of the Pentagon during a night-long sit down in front of armed U.S. troops.






