Social Justice

Christian Taylor

Why the Police Killing of Football Player Christian Taylor Matters Why the Police Killing of Football Player Christian Taylor Matters

Without the resilience of the #BlackLivesMatter movement, the shooting of this unarmed black man would have gone unnoticed.

Aug 10, 2015 / Dave Zirin

Students Protest BLM

15 Youth Movements to Dismantle White Supremacy Rising This Summer 15 Youth Movements to Dismantle White Supremacy Rising This Summer

Amid a nationwide struggle against racism, a generation grows.

Aug 7, 2015 / StudentNation / StudentNation

Amnesty International’s Long-Due Support for Sex Workers Rights

Amnesty International’s Long-Due Support for Sex Workers Rights Amnesty International’s Long-Due Support for Sex Workers Rights

The international organization has a history of facing controversial issues. This week, it hopes to tackle sex work decriminalization.

Aug 6, 2015 / Melissa Gira Grant

Narco-Terror Has Come to Mexico City

Narco-Terror Has Come to Mexico City Narco-Terror Has Come to Mexico City

The murders of photojournalist Rubén Espinosa and activist Nadia Vera Pérez are only the latest in a string of deaths connected to the state of Veracruz.

Aug 6, 2015 / Greg Grandin

Minimum Wage Protester

4 Tough Questions on Poverty for the Republican Presidential Candidates 4 Tough Questions on Poverty for the Republican Presidential Candidates

This first debate of the 2016 election is an opportunity for the leading Republicans to go on the record about the issues that matter most to working families. But they probably wo...

Aug 5, 2015 / Marisol Bello

Blockadia protest

‘Blockadia’ Activists Up the Ante Against Shell Oil ‘Blockadia’ Activists Up the Ante Against Shell Oil

For more than 36 hours, activists on land, sea, and in the air held up the ship headed to Shell’s Arctic oil-drilling effort.

Jul 31, 2015 / Arun Gupta

The Apache vs. Rio Tinto

The Apache vs. Rio Tinto The Apache vs. Rio Tinto

The San Carlos tribe is fighting to block a massive mining project that would cut a two-mile wide crater through sacred land.

Jul 31, 2015 / Nick Kimbrell

Americans with Disabilities Act

The Americans With Disabilities Act Is a Model for the World—Literally The Americans With Disabilities Act Is a Model for the World—Literally

This landmark legislation became the basis for an international treaty embraced by much of the world—but not, ironically, by the United States.

Jul 29, 2015 / Janet E. Lord

Leopoldo López Is Not Venezuela’s Savior

Leopoldo López Is Not Venezuela’s Savior Leopoldo López Is Not Venezuela’s Savior

Despite US support, the revolutionary has only succeeded in pushing like-minded opposition leaders far, far away.

Jul 29, 2015 / Greg Grandin

Black Lives Matter

Black Love Matters Black Love Matters

A dispatch from the inaugural gathering of a proudly diffuse, rapidly growing, hyper-local movement for black lives.

Jul 28, 2015 / Mark Winston Griffith

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