Tag: activism

Dosing puppies with drugs designed for humans won’t make people safer. In fact, it poses serious risks to human health.

While Trump sending in militarized troops to cities needs to be opposed, police violence is bigger than Trump.

As federal agents snatch protesters in unmarked vans, the reporters covering the Portland uprising are facing intense and unprecedented repression.

"This political theater from President Trump has nothing to do with public safety."

As calls to defund police grow, peacemakers on the frontlines of Chicago’s gun violence epidemic have dramatically reduced homicides and shootings.

The group blocked the road, holding banners and chanting slogans such as “We can’t breathe” and proclaiming treaty rights.

These activists wanted a better America, one that actually realized its ideals of equal justice and ensured life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

For more than 200 years, ordinary Americans have taken to the streets to oppose injustice and improve their lives. That foundational right has been the basis for real change in the nation.

Wendi C. Thomas is a black journalist who has covered police in Memphis. One officer admitted to spying on her. She’s on a long list of prominent black journalists and activists who have been subjected to police surveillance over decades.

"This milestone is a victory for everyone who has been forced to breathe polluted air or drink unclean water because they lived near a dirty power plant."