Activism

This Is What Deportation Looks Like

This Is What Deportation Looks Like This Is What Deportation Looks Like

Edi Arma’s 11-year-old son describes the trauma of seeing his dad picked up by ICE agents. 

Jan 25, 2013 / Aura Bogado

Demand Meaningful Gun Control

Demand Meaningful Gun Control Demand Meaningful Gun Control

Horrified by the shooting at Sandy Hook and frustrated by congressional inaction, the Nation Builders worked together to create a collective open letter imploring politicians to su...

Jan 25, 2013 / NationAction

Sharif Abdel Kouddous: Two Years On, Nothing Much Has Changed in Egypt

Sharif Abdel Kouddous: Two Years On, Nothing Much Has Changed in Egypt Sharif Abdel Kouddous: Two Years On, Nothing Much Has Changed in Egypt

Protesters again are demanding bread, freedom and social justice under new president Mohamed Morsi.

Jan 25, 2013 / Press Room

This Week in Poverty: Citizen Obama and the Anti-Poverty/Pro-Prosperity People

This Week in Poverty: Citizen Obama and the Anti-Poverty/Pro-Prosperity People This Week in Poverty: Citizen Obama and the Anti-Poverty/Pro-Prosperity People

President Obama laid out the right vision—what will the anti-poverty movement do to help get us there?

Jan 25, 2013 / Greg Kaufmann

We Are Undocumented America: Fighting for Immigration Reform in 2013

We Are Undocumented America: Fighting for Immigration Reform in 2013 We Are Undocumented America: Fighting for Immigration Reform in 2013

Against the backdrop of record deportations, undocumented activists outline what it would take to make immigration reform both comprehensive and meaningful.

Jan 24, 2013 / Joshua Davis

Why Divestment is Changing the Climate Movement

Why Divestment is Changing the Climate Movement Why Divestment is Changing the Climate Movement

Divestment is engaging more students than any similar campaign in the past twenty years. Why is it so successful?

Jan 24, 2013 / StudentNation / Chloe Maxmin and StudentNation

Chief Spence Hospitalized, Ending Hunger Strike

Chief Spence Hospitalized, Ending Hunger Strike Chief Spence Hospitalized, Ending Hunger Strike

Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence is ending her hunger strike—but the fight for indigenous sovereignty continues. 

Jan 24, 2013 / Aura Bogado

Yes, He Can: Twenty Ways Obama Can Use Executive Power to Push a Progressive Agenda

Yes, He Can: Twenty Ways Obama Can Use Executive Power to Push a Progressive Agenda Yes, He Can: Twenty Ways Obama Can Use Executive Power to Push a Progressive Agenda

From Cuba to climate change to criminal justice, progressives must push the president to act—and forge a better future.

Jan 24, 2013 / Feature / The Editors

Shelf Life

Shelf Life Shelf Life

Shawn Francis Peters’s The Catonsville Nine.

Jan 23, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Mark Oppenheimer

Syracuse Faculty Group to Support Fossil Fuel Divestment Campaign Syracuse Faculty Group to Support Fossil Fuel Divestment Campaign

A letter in Syracuse University's Daily Orange by Political Science professor Sarah Pralle details why she is leading a faculty group in support of student organizing pushing t...

Jan 23, 2013 / StudentNation / StudentNation

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