Activism

What Does It Mean When ‘Hands Up, Don’t Shoot’ Doesn’t Hold Up?

What Does It Mean When ‘Hands Up, Don’t Shoot’ Doesn’t Hold Up? What Does It Mean When ‘Hands Up, Don’t Shoot’ Doesn’t Hold Up?

Jonathan Capehart dares to ask, and too many on the left don’t want to hear about it.

Mar 20, 2015 / Blog / Leslie Savan

At a Jewish Voice For Peace Conference: This Is What Solidarity Looks Like

At a Jewish Voice For Peace Conference: This Is What Solidarity Looks Like At a Jewish Voice For Peace Conference: This Is What Solidarity Looks Like

When a Palestinian woman went to this Jewish group’s annual conference, she found a growing movement of Jews and other allies.

Mar 20, 2015 / Nadia Hijab

We Need to End the Student Loan Debt Crisis

We Need to End the Student Loan Debt Crisis We Need to End the Student Loan Debt Crisis

To draw attention to the magnitude of the student debt crisis, we’re doing something dramatic.

Mar 20, 2015 / Take Action / NationAction

Why the New Film About the Gang Rape and Murder of Jyoti Singh Is Required Viewing

Why the New Film About the Gang Rape and Murder of Jyoti Singh Is Required Viewing Why the New Film About the Gang Rape and Murder of Jyoti Singh Is Required Viewing

The documentary has been banned in India—which makes watching it only more urgent.

Mar 20, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Nitasha Kaul

Columbia Students to Lee Bollinger: Divest From Prisons Now!

Columbia Students to Lee Bollinger: Divest From Prisons Now! Columbia Students to Lee Bollinger: Divest From Prisons Now!

As of  last year, the university had $8 million invested in Corrections Corporation of America, as well as shares in other private security firms.

Mar 20, 2015 / Clare Sestanovich

What It Feels Like to Be a ‘Demographic Threat’ to Israel

What It Feels Like to Be a ‘Demographic Threat’ to Israel What It Feels Like to Be a ‘Demographic Threat’ to Israel

Benjamin Netanyahu’s attack on Arab voters was not just an electioneering tactic. Such fear-mongering is rooted in the foundation of the Zionist project in Palestine.

Mar 20, 2015 / Yousef Munayyer

Where in America Are Black People Safe From Racism? Nowhere.

Where in America Are Black People Safe From Racism? Nowhere. Where in America Are Black People Safe From Racism? Nowhere.

Starbucks’ “Race Together” campaign rings false as cases of police brutality multiply.

Mar 19, 2015 / Blog / Mychal Denzel Smith

March 18, 1871: The Paris Commune is Established

March 18, 1871: The Paris Commune is Established March 18, 1871: The Paris Commune is Established

The Nation was appalled when “grossly ignorant” laborers and “schemers and visionaries” took over the French capital.

Mar 18, 2015 / The Almanac / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac

The Laura Kipnis Melodrama

The Laura Kipnis Melodrama The Laura Kipnis Melodrama

In the dead serious discussion about student sexual vulnerability, there’s no place for cheeky provocateurs.

Mar 16, 2015 / Blog / Michelle Goldberg

Black Comedy in the Maldives

Black Comedy in the Maldives Black Comedy in the Maldives

Why was former president and climate-justice hero Mohamed Nasheed sentenced to prison on terrorism charges?

Mar 16, 2015 / Mark Hertsgaard

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