Tag: peaceful protests
Nigerian journalist & activist Omoyele Sowore remains jailed for calling for...
Journalist and pro-democracy activist Omoyele Sowore is entering his second month in jail for calling for peaceful nationwide protests against the government....
Fossil fuel companies are enlisting police to crack down on protesters
State lawmakers across the country are advancing bills to increase penalties for demonstrators who interfere with 'critical infrastructure,' such as pipelines and gas terminals.
What Black Lives Matter activists can teach us about the pitfalls...
Interviews with 11 Black Lives Matter social media page administrators highlight the challenges of scaling grassroots activism through digital organizing.
Democratic lawmakers join family separation protests at detention centers from Texas...
Protests have erupted nationwide against the Trump administration’s new policy of separating children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Spending a night in the Concord jail when Martin Luther King,...
On the evening of April 4, 1968, an hour or so after Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated, I was in a jail cell in Concord, Mass., writing a freshman paper about King, Gandhi and Thoreau.
Texas school district threatens suspension for student protests; universities respond, ‘peaceful...
Individual admissions officials took to Twitter to let students know that joining such demonstrations wouldn't "affect their college acceptance decisions."
When protests are powerful, the powerful punish protest
Even in the face of massive wealth and political influence, protest has the ability to change the conversation, to educate the public, change facts on the ground, and mobilize opposition.
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What red state vs. blue state looks like to an ant
Signs of decline and decay are all around us, behind the glitter and the glitz.
Ukraine and the lessons of the Iraq War
Only those who have failed to learn the lessons of the Iraq War would fail to make the same demand of Russia as a prerequisite for a just peace today.
Lack of safe drinking water for city dwellers to double by 2050: UN report
The report found that water scarcity is also becoming more common in rural areas, with water shortages affecting from two to three billion people for at least a month out of each year.
Senior climate activists rally across US to ‘stop dirty banks’
"We must break the big banks' addiction to Big Oil."
A highway to peace or a highway to hell?
Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry, fully engaged in corralling, containing, and constraining it, Eisenhower concluded, could save democracy and bolster peaceful methods and goals.