Saturday, October 31, 2026

Tag: protests

Standing Rock’s surprising legacy: A push for public banks

A public bank is an institution owned by a governmental body, funded with taxpayer money, and mandated to serve the public interest.

After youth activists storm their offices, 13 more House members agree...

By day’s end, Sunrise had racked up nearly 150 arrests and support from the likely new leader of the House Rules Committee.

I walked right up to militarized police at the border

The risk we took at the border is overshadowed by the risks taken by the courageous participants of the migrant caravan.

‘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.”

‘We gonna rise up, rise up ’til it’s won!:’ 140+ arrested...

"When the people rise up, the powers come back. They tried to stop us but we keep coming back."

‘Shame on you!’ Protesters interrupt Trump admin promoting coal & fossil...

Protesters at the UN climate summit in Katowice, Poland, as they interrupted a Trump administration event promoting coal and other fossil fuels.

Mobilizing against extinction

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

#BlackFridays walkouts turn rage into action and community

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.

‘An incredible victory:’ Opponents of Keystone XL Pipeline praise judicial order...

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.

Increased restrictions on protest won’t keep communities safer

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.

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Protesters carry Palestinian flags and signs at a demonstration in Berlin.

Rape as a Tool of Empire: Cornell, Palestine, and the Silence of Western Feminists

“In both cases, their perpetrators and assailants can leave the crime scene unscathed, with their hands clean.”
Voters stand at voting stations in a polling place.

In a Country That Needs Heroes, Here Are a Few Standouts This Election Season

“Right now, the United States is unhappy enough to need a lot of heroes.”
The U.S. Capitol building with its dome in Washington.

515 donors gave $4.2 billion to 2026 super PACs, Public Citizen finds

Elon Musk alone gave $445 million, about 10% of the total, according to the group's analysis of FEC data through late October.
The entrance of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Department of Education Building in Washington.

McMahon plans $43,279 in office furniture as Education Dept shrinks

Senators Baldwin and Murray asked the Education secretary to cancel the purchase. The department says her current furniture does not fit its new office space.
Blue entrance of the Karnes County Civil Detention Center with metal benches outside

ICE lists 36 detainee deaths in fiscal 2026, most since 2018

The agency's own page shows 29 deaths by mid-April and seven more through Aug. 23; DHS has said the size of the detained population explains the rise.