Tag: activism
Our opponents’ actions show we’re winning
Together, we can create transformational change. We are closer than we realize.
Sunflowers vs. Gunpower: March For Our Lives takes on the NRA
Several hundred students, parents and supporters brought signs calling out the gun rights organization.
How to reclaim the narrative – and power – in post-truth America
Hope plus action and investment equals revolutionary muscle. Now is the time for the progressive majority to set the terms of the conversation.
‘Never again:’ To ‘demand they listen,’ activists stage rally at NRA...
"We don't want thoughts. We don't want prayers. We want change."
Answering ‘what should I do?’ is easier when you know the...
There are many necessary roles in the popular movement at this time, which means there is something for everyone to do.
On 65th Anniversary of Korean truce, activists criticize US for delaying...
“The United States has made a military colony in South Korea and established a puppet regime. We seek peace for our nation and the people of Korea."
ICE served eviction notice in Syracuse: At least 10 arrested in...
Nearly filling the lobby nine activists, most of with who were wearing "Evict ICE" t-shirts locked arms in front of the hallway that led to the first floor of the building.
Of course, Medicare For All would increase federal spending…
But it would lower the total cost of health care.
Murder and intimidation of environmental activists hits record levels
As of this writing, nearly 60 activists and defenders are known to have been murdered this year.
‘Our democracy is under attack:’ Broad Coalition hosts 175+ #ConfrontCorruption vigils...
More than 175 Confront Corruption and Demand Democracy candlelight vigils are scheduled to begin at sundown on Wednesday.
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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.
Judge dismisses the last January 6 case, writing that absolving the Oath Keepers is...
The Justice Department told the court a retrial would harass eight men whose sentences Trump had already commuted. Two Oath Keepers who pleaded guilty and cooperated keep their convictions.
Chris Hedges and Albert Raboteau on ‘American Prophets’ importance in an age of radical...
Watch the two thinkers talk about Raboteau’s book, which discusses the work of religious figures such as Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton and Martin Luther King, Jr.
“The People’s Historian”: Dave Zirin’s New Book Explores “Remarkable” Life of Howard Zinn
We speak to Dave Zirin, author and sports editor at The Nation , about his new book, The People’s Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn , chronicling the life and activism of the legendary historian Howard Zinn, author of A People’s History of the United States .
Cats are fueling a global eco-crisis, pushing birds and other species to extinction
Free-roaming cats are an invasive species and one of the most significant sources of human-caused bird mortality.