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
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
Why Don’t American Students Strike? Why Don’t American Students Strike?
American students need to create their own organizing culture.
Aug 13, 2012 / StudentNation / Zachary A. Bell
The Rise Of The ‘More Radical’ Protester The Rise Of The ‘More Radical’ Protester
Political scientists in Russia predict the rise of the "more radical protester." Is that a bad thing?
Aug 13, 2012 / Allison Kilkenny
Activists Around the US Fight to Raise the Minimum Wage Activists Around the US Fight to Raise the Minimum Wage
At a time when 4.5 million Americans make at or below the minimum wage, a broad coalition unites to demand better pay.
Aug 10, 2012 / Matthew Cunningham-Cook
Talk About Poverty (#TalkPoverty): Peter Edelman’s Questions for Obama and Romney Talk About Poverty (#TalkPoverty): Peter Edelman’s Questions for Obama and Romney
We’ve got questions about poverty, and it’s time for the presidential candidates to give us some answers. Peter Edelman kicks off a new series at TheNation.com.
Aug 10, 2012 / Greg Kaufmann