Activism

Voting’s Outcasts: Why One in Five Blacks in Kentucky Can’t Cast a Ballot Voting’s Outcasts: Why One in Five Blacks in Kentucky Can’t Cast a Ballot

Kentucky makes it nearly impossible for former felons to vote, but a grassroots group is fighting back.

Sep 18, 2012 / Aura Bogado, Meta Mendel-Reyes, and Voting Rights Watch

More Than 180 Arrested on Occupy Wall Street’s First Anniversary More Than 180 Arrested on Occupy Wall Street’s First Anniversary

According to the mainstream media, Occupy is dead. So why are the police taking so many into custody? 

Sep 18, 2012 / Allison Kilkenny

What I Learned from Occupy Wall Street What I Learned from Occupy Wall Street

A democratic revolution is possible—and necessary.

Sep 17, 2012 / Max Berger

Occupy Wall Street’s First Anniversary, In Drawings Occupy Wall Street’s First Anniversary, In Drawings

Contributions to our special issue on Occupy at one by artist and occupier Molly Crabapple.

Sep 17, 2012 / The Nation

How Occupy Has Changed the Conversation on Class How Occupy Has Changed the Conversation on Class

The year-old movement doesn’t need its own candidate to influence politics. 

Sep 17, 2012 / Melissa Harris-Perry

Occupy Your Victories Occupy Your Victories

Those claiming Occupy has failed already forget what other social justice sucesses have taught us: change is slow. 

Sep 17, 2012 / Rebecca Solnit

Strike Against Inequality Strike Against Inequality

A strike in the country's most segregated school district is about more than union politics. 

Sep 14, 2012 / StudentNation / Christie Thompson

Astra Taylor: Your Debt Is Not Your Fault! Astra Taylor: Your Debt Is Not Your Fault!

Occupy activists are moving debt from the personal to the political. 

Sep 13, 2012 / The Nation

Help Halt Fracking Help Halt Fracking

Sign the pledge to make every effort to halt hydraulic fracturing.

Sep 13, 2012 / NationAction

New York’s Fractivists Keep the Heat on Cuomo New York’s Fractivists Keep the Heat on Cuomo

As the Democratic governor considers whether to allow the controversial gas drilling practice, anti-fracking forces vow to stop it—even if they have to go to jail to do so.

Sep 12, 2012 / Nicholas Kusnetz

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