Tag: protest

Movement-building approaches from the civil rights era get a 2017 update.

Oscar-nominated actor James Cromwell and Pramilla Malick are going to jail today for their nonviolent protest against a natural gas-fired power plant that uses fracked gas in Orange County, New York.

This is exactly what America needs, what it must have, at this most critical time in its history.

We don’t have to reinvent ourselves along violent lines. Instead, we can become a country that changes itself through nonviolent revolution.

We must fight the McResistance, because allowing Democrats to pose as “Good Cop” on climate poses risks that are simply intolerable.

“We have to put more emphasis on solar ... and alternative sources of energy.”

Take the viewpoint of the public good, not corporate profiteering.

A group of former congressional staffers put a document online two months ago to help mobilize citizens. To everyone’s surprise, it has grown into a genuine citizens’ movement.

EXCLUSIVE: NAACP President Cornell William Brooks and other members of the civil rights group rally outside Senator Jeff Sessions’ office and hold a sit-in.

“It’s important that everybody go there. This will have an effect.”