Tag: activism

“We are taking the pledge that we will uphold Renaissance values, we will stand for equality for women, we resist the attempts to make Kerala a lunatic asylum, and we will fight for secularism.”

The Sunrise Movement, composed of activists from high school age to their mid-20s, formed to challenge power in the form of targeted Congresspeople and to more broadly tackle the climate crisis in a loud but uniquely jubilant voice.

A public bank is an institution owned by a governmental body, funded with taxpayer money, and mandated to serve the public interest.

These sisters believe that their faith calls them to create a more just world.

Activists camped outside a sprawling tent city in the Texas desert bring a message to migrant children detained there: No estás solo. You are not alone.

“Sometimes it is necessary to do the right thing, to heal a broken world.”

By day’s end, Sunrise had racked up nearly 150 arrests and support from the likely new leader of the House Rules Committee.

The risk we took at the border is overshadowed by the risks taken by the courageous participants of the migrant caravan.

“We need to change ourselves now, because tomorrow it might be too late.”

"The people will rise to the challenge. And since our leaders are behaving like children, we will have to take the responsibility they should have taken long ago.”