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Protests identify legitimate grievances in society, and often tackle issues that affect people who lack the power to address them through other means.
Joaquin Phoenix, Martin Sheen arrested at Jane Fonda’s final weekly climate...
West Wing's Martin Sheen and Joker's Joaquin Phoenix were arrested and ticketed in an act of civil disobedience alongside hundreds of other activists.
Chris Hedges: Rebellion is the only way to stop the ruling...
He shares the wisdom he has gained from his experiences watching governments fail to inform us about what to expect and how to build power.
As the decade closes, the power of protest endures
A new global social movement is growing, in schools and on the streets.
Indigenous protectors are defending the Amazon and ‘paying with their lives’
Human rights groups warned in an open letter that the Amazon’s last uncontacted indigenous people face “genocide,” amid raging fires and mounting incursions into their territories.
As global inequality rises, so are the movements fighting it
Despite the often-bleak picture we find ourselves in, the energy and dynamism of the movement that the report reveals is inspiring and cause for hope.
The revolution isn’t being televised
Media uninterested in protest movements around the world.
Wisconsin legislators seek to criminalize climate, environmental protests
“It is alarming to see the fossil fuel industry trying to pit environmentalists and labor unions against one another."
The ‘secret sauce’ for Southern organizing
Hometown Action’s “secret sauce” for building power to win in the Deep comes from organizing, which builds consciousness and relationships through deep conversations, which makes a difference and creates impact.
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Mississippi pension fund sues Apollo Global Management over downplayed Epstein ties
The fund manages retirement savings for hundreds of thousands of Mississippi teachers, police officers and other public workers, and a shareholder case like it can force a company to hand over internal records.
Watchdog reporting examines a pension officer’s fossil fuel trades and a fire truck monopoly
The Lever's latest investigations trace a California retirement chief's oil and gas stock trading and a spreading set of antitrust suits over who builds America's fire engines.
The Movement Against Big Tech’s Flock Cameras Transcends Partisanship—and It’s Winning
Much like the resistance to AI data centers, the opposition to Flock surveillance cameras has brought the left and the right together against billionaires who are trying to force America into becoming even more of a police state.
Del Monte Bankruptcy to destroy 420,000 Peach Trees in California
A steady decline in demand for canned products as consumers shift toward fresh produce and several other factors led to this collapse.
ProPublica journalists strike over AI policy, exposing labor fault lines inside investigative media
The NewsGuild says two years of bargaining stalled over job security and artificial intelligence, and the union has taken its case to federal labor regulators.