Tag: activist

20 water protectors were brutally arrested in Minnesota as resistance to the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline continues.

With Black Lives Matter in the midst of an unprecedented moment, now is the perfect time to read “The Movement Action Plan” — a model for understanding the long arc of movements.

"What this restaurant is truly meant to do is empower."

The largely ministry-led movement provided humanitarian assistance to the thousands of individuals fleeing violence-ravaged Central American countries.

We can’t have privacy without agency.

"This is a political crime for the human rights defense that Samir Flores Samir and the FPDTA carried out against the [project] and for people's autonomy and self-determination."

Aretha Franklin has been celebrated as one of the greatest American singers of any genre, who helped give birth to soul and redefined the American musical tradition.

Known to some as the Rosa Parks of Palestine, Tamimi became a hero to Palestinians and people around the world last year.

There are many necessary roles in the popular movement at this time, which means there is something for everyone to do.

Now, 50 years later, a coalition has formed anew to organize poor people in the U.S. into what King called "a new and unsettling force" to fight poverty and forge meaningful change.