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May Day

 Plug into the spirit Occupy on May Day and throughout the spring.

General Strike

Outside the US, May 1 is international workers’ day. Unions, immigrant activists and Occupiers are now resurrecting May Day for Americans. 

Where does the idea of catastrophic change come from?

Hip hop and the Occupy movement have even more in common than you might think.

What are some alternative tactics to create a different, more powerful general strike?

Occupy New Haven

Just after its six-month anniversary, the last occupation in New England was evicted. Freed from maintaining camp life, will the occupiers' momentum return?

Keystone XL protest

As the Keystone XL battle has shown, the blue-green alliance is in trouble—and only a deeper kind of solidarity can rescue it.

According to a new report, the pepper spraying of peacefully protesting UC Davis students last year “should and could have been prevented.”

Governor Scott Walker attempted to pit Wisconsin workers against each other. But the effect was the opposite of what he had intended.

Could litigation over the Occupy movement strengthen First Amendment rights for protesters?

Blogs

Today is the 39th anniversary of the killings of four student antiwar protesters at Kent State University.

May 4, 2009

It's the first full day of Powershift 2009, and over 11,000 have descended on downtown DC’s largest venue for a weekend of training, rallying, and climate action lobbying.

March 4, 2009

In two weeks students will lead the largest day of lobbying on climate change in US history.

February 16, 2009

Ten thousand young activists are planning to underscore the urgency of dramatic action on climate change.

November 25, 2008

As a seven-month national moratorium on executions comes to an end, where does the student movement against the death penalty go?

September 9, 2008

Corporate and CEO profits are at an all-time high. The richest 1 percent in America posses the wealth of the bottom 95 percent combined. Companies deploy hundreds of lobbyists and spend millions of dollars courting members of Congress to win legislative favors. The presidential election in '08 promises to be the priciest in history, largely underwritten by big business and top dollar donors.

June 8, 2007
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