Tag: protests

"When society is ready to lose its sense of fear in the face of state authority, then everything crumbles and change can happen.”

This initiative, connected by the Twitter hashtag #BlackFridays, has resulted in a number of symbolic walkouts across the country led by a network of women of color.

The court’s decision will require the Trump administration to review more thoroughly the potential negative impacts of the pipeline on the surrounding environment and climate change.

Instead of looking to combat-ready police to solve the problem of public disruption, the community itself has the capacity to create structures of safety and support by focusing on solidarity and confronting the foundational issues that are causing the violence in the first place.

Today, new movements are working with more established organizations to capitalize on their wide-reaching networks.

Together we can keep building a movement for transformational change.

The #Occupythe100 protesters know that the "rule of law" is a sacred trust that should serve as an equalizer in an unequal world.

But the good news is that women are going to make them pay a terrible price for their treachery in the very near future.

It’s a truism in political science that when regimes lose their legitimacy, major change – even revolution – becomes a possibility.

Our deep and abiding connection with Mother Earth is what compels us to fight to protect it.