Activism

Occupy Activists Prepare to Protest Political Conventions Occupy Activists Prepare to Protest Political Conventions

Protesters prepare to head south for the DNC and RNC.

Aug 20, 2012 / Allison Kilkenny

Men Still Explain Things to Me Men Still Explain Things to Me

Facts still don’t get in their way.

Aug 20, 2012 / Rebecca Solnit

Rage Against Paul Ryan Rage Against Paul Ryan

The VP candidate may love Rage Against the Machine’s music. But Rage guitarist Tom Morello says: “Paul Ryan is the embodiment of the machine our music rages agains...

Aug 17, 2012 / John Nichols

This Week in Poverty: Here’s to the Houston Janitors This Week in Poverty: Here’s to the Houston Janitors

Houston janitors fought like hell to get from $8.35 an hour to $9.35 an hour—over four years—cleaning the offices of billionaires.

Aug 17, 2012 / Greg Kaufmann

Chilean Students Occupy High Schools Chilean Students Occupy High Schools

Chilean student activists have taken control of at least seven schools in the country’s capital, following street protests that saw 75 arrested and three city buses burned.

Aug 15, 2012 / StudentNation / Angus Johnston

Occupy Wall Street: Year One Occupy Wall Street: Year One

On September 15, the movement will re-assemble where it was born for three days of education, celebration and renewed resistance to economic injustice with permitted convergences ...

Aug 15, 2012 / Peter Rothberg

Help Prevent a Bhopal in the US Help Prevent a Bhopal in the US

The bulk use and storage of poison gases like chlorine at chemical facilities and wastewater and drinking water plants currently puts millions of Americans at risk of a Bhopal ma...

Aug 14, 2012 / NationAction

Bill Moyers: For Campaign Cash, TV Gives Back Nothing Bill Moyers: For Campaign Cash, TV Gives Back Nothing

The campaign season earns local television stations enormous sums of money. What should they give back?

Aug 14, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Laura Flanders

Quebec Students Vote on Whether to Continue Strike Quebec Students Vote on Whether to Continue Strike

Students’ enthusiasm for the strike might be wavering only a few months ahead of provincial elections.

Aug 14, 2012 / Allison Kilkenny

Attacks on Chile’s Indigenous Peoples Thwart Efforts at Land Reparations

Attacks on Chile’s Indigenous Peoples Thwart Efforts at Land Reparations Attacks on Chile’s Indigenous Peoples Thwart Efforts at Land Reparations

The indigenous Mapuche people have been trying to reclaim their ancestral lands for the past ten years, but Chilean authorities have only reacted with force.

Aug 13, 2012 / Brittany Peterson

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