Tag: activists
Earth Day activists wanted to disrupt the fossil fuel industry. The...
We need to speed the transition to the solar panels and wind turbines that engineers have worked so mightily to improve and are now the cheapest way to generate power.
2 butterfly defenders found dead within a week in Mexico
"How can you protect the butterflies if Homero Gómez or other people are not protected?"
As the decade closes, the power of protest endures
A new global social movement is growing, in schools and on the streets.
Watch: Young activists fight for undocumented students’ safety in school
Brave New Films is spotlighting youth-led and intergenerational organizations across the U.S. through its #YouthinAction series.
School strike for climate: Meet 15-year-old activist Greta Thunberg, who inspired...
“We need to change ourselves now, because tomorrow it might be too late.”
‘Our leaders are behaving like children:’ Teen climate activist confronts world...
"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.”
‘I came to put my body on the line:’ Both inside...
"Many citizens before me have fought for the equal rights of women. I can't be silent when someone is nominated to the Supreme Court who would take our equal rights away."
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.
Kings Bay Plowshares: Meet two of the seven activists who secretly...
Their goal was to symbolically disarm the nuclear weapons at the base, which is home to at least six nuclear ballistic missile submarines.
The paper company threatening ancient boreal forests – and activists and...
Resolute Forest Products provides the paper for the nation’s biggest newspapers and publishers. So it’s up to independent media to speak out.
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Federal agents face protests after Trump orders unprecedented takeover of DC police
Residents denounce checkpoints and expanded federal presence as civil liberties advocates warn of authoritarian overreach.
Will Trump-Putin summit leave Ukraine and Europe out in the cold?
If he repeats his past performances at summits with Putin and appears to back the Russian leader over his country’s closest allies, it is likely to cause a dangerous rift in the western alliance.
America first is America alone
Power-crazed the president may be, but he fails to grasp soft power.
Pesticides cause 2024 mass die-off of Western monarch butterflies, new study finds
The study was a result of researchers discovering the mass die-off of hundreds of monarch butterflies near the Pacific Grove Monarch Sanctuary in California, where the butterflies overwinter.
New data shows No Kings was one of the largest days of protest in...
The historic number of No Kings Day protesters and their expansive geographic spread are signs of a growing and durable pro-democracy movement.