Activism

This Week in Poverty: Revealing the Real TANF

This Week in Poverty: Revealing the Real TANF This Week in Poverty: Revealing the Real TANF

The TANF program expires in March, and the American people need to know what it’s all about before it’s renewed.

Feb 8, 2013 / Greg Kaufmann

Aaron Swartz’s DC Memorial: Radical Brings Bipartisanship to Washington

Aaron Swartz’s DC Memorial: Radical Brings Bipartisanship to Washington Aaron Swartz’s DC Memorial: Radical Brings Bipartisanship to Washington

This week, friends and colleagues of Aaron Swartz gathered to remember the late activist—and produced a ritual unlike anything Washington has seen in ages.

Feb 8, 2013 / Rick Perlstein

Interns’ Favorite Articles of the Week (2/8/13) Interns’ Favorite Articles of the Week (2/8/13)

This week, Nation interns tackle media bias. What is "sharia" law? What's missing in common debates about "labor"? How do white male tech writers ...

Feb 8, 2013 / StudentNation / StudentNation

Judith Butler’s Remarks to Brooklyn College on BDS

Judith Butler’s Remarks to Brooklyn College on BDS Judith Butler’s Remarks to Brooklyn College on BDS

Despite a campaign to silence them, philosophers Judith Butler and Omar Barghouti spoke at Brooklyn College on Thursday night. In an exclusive, The Nation presents the text of Butl...

Feb 7, 2013 / Judith Butler

Save the USPS

Save the USPS Save the USPS

The USPS's financial "crisis" has been entirely manufactured by critics cynically hoping to privatize the post office.

Feb 7, 2013 / NationAction

Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner and the Power of Being an Ally

Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner and the Power of Being an Ally Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner and the Power of Being an Ally

A trip to Philadelphia, Mississippi, forced me to confront how far I’d go for someone else.

Feb 7, 2013 / Nona Willis Aronowitz

Infiltrating ICE: How Undocumented Activists Are Organizing on the Inside

Infiltrating ICE: How Undocumented Activists Are Organizing on the Inside Infiltrating ICE: How Undocumented Activists Are Organizing on the Inside

Undocumented activist Marco Saavedra talks with The Nation's Francis Reynolds and Aura Bogado about the struggle to crack open an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention cent...

Feb 7, 2013 / Francis Reynolds and Aura Bogado

Leo Gerard Is Rising

Leo Gerard Is Rising Leo Gerard Is Rising

To send labor supporters into their final week of preparing for One Billion Rising, United Steelworkers President Leo Gerard recorded this special video message.

Feb 6, 2013 / Laura Flanders

NYU Divest Hosts Bill McKibben, Faces Rebuff From Administration

NYU Divest Hosts Bill McKibben, Faces Rebuff From Administration NYU Divest Hosts Bill McKibben, Faces Rebuff From Administration

The environmental activist and self-described “professional bummer-out-er" spoke at Cooper Union's historic Great Hall last night.

Feb 6, 2013 / StudentNation / Melissa Cronin and StudentNation

The Dignity Campaign’s Alternative Vision for Immigration Reform

The Dignity Campaign’s Alternative Vision for Immigration Reform The Dignity Campaign’s Alternative Vision for Immigration Reform

Rejecting proposals to tighten borders, a network of grassroots groups calls for reform based on “human, labor and civil rights for all.”

Feb 6, 2013 / David Bacon

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