Activism

This Week in Poverty: What We Talk About When We Talk About Poverty This Week in Poverty: What We Talk About When We Talk About Poverty

In the second presidential debate, Governor Romney used the word poverty without saying anything of substance about it. President Obama didn’t use the word at all but managed...

Oct 19, 2012 / Greg Kaufmann

Ashindi Maxton: America’s Founding Inequality Ashindi Maxton: America’s Founding Inequality

From the founding of the republic, inequality has been built into our country’s DNA.

Oct 19, 2012 / Laura Flanders

Progressives and the Election: A Nation Panel Conversation Progressives and the Election: A Nation Panel Conversation

How can progressives balance support for the Democrats with the need to mobilize grassroots support for social and economic causes?

Oct 18, 2012 / The Nation Video and Free Speech TV

The War Between the Civilized Man and Pamela Geller The War Between the Civilized Man and Pamela Geller

American Freedom Defense Initiative's Islamophobic ad campaign faced massive pushback from the forces of decency and justice.

Oct 18, 2012 / Lizzy Ratner

Global Student Leaders Join Forces in New York

Global Student Leaders Join Forces in New York Global Student Leaders Join Forces in New York

 How a “beautiful, noble, naïve movement" can be transformed into a "beautiful, noble, effective movement."

Oct 17, 2012 / StudentNation / Isabelle Nastasia

Freedom of Beach: Dump ‘Citizens United’ Freedom of Beach: Dump ‘Citizens United’

One thousand San Francisco activists are standing up (by lying down) against the hugely unpopular Supreme Court ruling. 

Oct 16, 2012 / Laura Flanders

Peter Dreier: ‘We Stand On the Shoulders’ of Social Justice Activists Peter Dreier: ‘We Stand On the Shoulders’ of Social Justice Activists

From Barbara Ehrenreich to Paul Wellstone, changemakers fighting for equality are the real American heroes. 

Oct 15, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Press Room

Global Noise: Worldwide Debt Protests Global Noise: Worldwide Debt Protests

Hundreds of thousands of protesters in more than thirty countries flooded the streets over the weekend to protest debt and austerity.

Oct 15, 2012 / Allison Kilkenny

Stop Stop-and-Frisk Stop Stop-and-Frisk

After years of complaints that the stops are racially discriminatory, the hearings signal that the public debate has gotten loud enough that lawmakers feel they have to be a part o...

Oct 10, 2012 / NationAction

‘Occupy Unmasked’—Unmasked ‘Occupy Unmasked’—Unmasked

The documentary, starring the late Andrew Breitbart, is a deranged hodge-podge of bizarre memes, wild dot-connecting and unadulterated fury.

Oct 9, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Michael Tracey

x