Tag: activism
Big data, big oil and white supremacy: Unveiling the dark forces...
In his new solo performance piece “The Truth Has Changed,” the “Gasland” director raises an alarm: The Democrats are ill-prepared for Trump’s oncoming misinformation campaign.
Dangerous women embracing risk to change the world: Ava DuVernay, Ai-jen...
“I didn’t ask for forgiveness ever or permission ever. I just did what I thought was right.”
Denouncing corporate climate profiteers, comedy icon Lily Tomlin arrested at #FireDrillFriday...
"These corporations are making oodles of money on the front end, oodles of money on the back end. It is beyond reprehensible."
Building power and raising voices of rural women
Rural women have served as the educators, healthcare givers, nurturers, and fighters for our community for generations.
From Alcatraz to Standing Rock: The 50-year arc of Native activism
Tracing the path of pan-Native activism.
Indigenous protectors are defending the Amazon and ‘paying with their lives’
Human rights groups warned in an open letter that the Amazon’s last uncontacted indigenous people face “genocide,” amid raging fires and mounting incursions into their territories.
As global inequality rises, so are the movements fighting it
Despite the often-bleak picture we find ourselves in, the energy and dynamism of the movement that the report reveals is inspiring and cause for hope.
Arizona will retry No More Deaths’ activist Scott Warren
The largely ministry-led movement provided humanitarian assistance to the thousands of individuals fleeing violence-ravaged Central American countries.
How a growing movement made impeachment politically feasible
As momentum for impeachment builds, By the People is working to ensure that Trump’s removal is a truly transformative moment in our history.
Hanoi Jane will save us all
As most people already know, Jane Fonda at age 81 moved to Washington, DC, and almost immediately began her #FireDrillFridays against climate...
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Bulldozers begin clearing ground for border barriers inside Big Bend National Park
Homeland Security set aside the National Park Service Organic Act, the Endangered Species Act and dozens of other laws to authorize the work, and a court challenge to that waiver is pending.
The sadistic MAGA Trump Death Spiral twists and turns – a fierce test for...
Motto for the Trump gang could well be J. Robert Oppenheimer’s chilling admission, “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”
US workers average 10 paid vacation days a year, and 33 million get none
Twenty-five OECD countries require employers to provide at least 20 days. The US legal minimum is zero, and 57 percent of the lowest-paid tenth of workers get no vacation at all.
Court filings describe a Homeland Security operation that infiltrated Minnesota unions and churches
Agents subpoenaed years of bank and payment records from the Sunrise Movement and two national unions, none of which has been charged with a crime.
“Stop Toxic Data Centers”: Justin Pearson on Elon Musk, AI & Winning Dem. House...
Pearson campaigned against Elon Musk's Colossus data centers in Memphis, and faces Republican state Senator Brent Taylor in November.