Students Call for Divestment From the Fossil Fuel Industry Students Call for Divestment From the Fossil Fuel Industry
Students are the sleeping giant that rose to end apartheid and fight for many other just causes. Now more and more students are mobilizing against business as usual in the fossil f...
Nov 14, 2012 / StudentNation / Chloe Maxmin and Alli Welton
Beyond Ballots: When Communities Are the Real Candidates Beyond Ballots: When Communities Are the Real Candidates
One week after Obama’s re-election, the work of social and economic justice movements is as clear as ever.
Nov 13, 2012 / Voting Rights Watch / Aura Bogado, Noni M. Grant, and Voting Rights Watch
Climate Activists Hit Hard With ‘Do the Math’ National Tour Climate Activists Hit Hard With ‘Do the Math’ National Tour
350.org’s caravan heads to Washington, DC, to push President Obama to address climate change in his second term.
Nov 13, 2012 / Tom Hayden
Alleging a New Wave of Retaliation, Walmart Warehouse Workers Will Strike a Day Early Alleging a New Wave of Retaliation, Walmart Warehouse Workers Will Strike a Day Early
Thursday, warehouse workers will launch a one-day walk-out which could spread further, including to Walmart stores.
Nov 13, 2012 / Blog / Josh Eidelson
This Week in Poverty: Janitors in the Queen City This Week in Poverty: Janitors in the Queen City
Thirteen corporations in Cincinnati earned nearly $17 billion in profits in 2011, but the janitors cleaning their offices still are paid poverty wages.
Nov 13, 2012 / Blog / Greg Kaufmann
Occupy Wall Street Activists Buy Up Debt to Abolish It Occupy Wall Street Activists Buy Up Debt to Abolish It
The Strike Debt movement is planning a Rolling Jubilee—a bailout of the people, by the people.
Nov 12, 2012 / Blog / Allison Kilkenny
Hunger Strike Calls Attention to Mapuche Plight in Chile Hunger Strike Calls Attention to Mapuche Plight in Chile
In southern Chile a dramatic sixty-day hunger strike that left four young Mapuche prisoners near death ended in celebration.
Nov 9, 2012 / StudentNation / Brittany Peterson
Yes We Can, We Did, and Now Obama’s Second Term Is Our Responsibility Yes We Can, We Did, and Now Obama’s Second Term Is Our Responsibility
We won, but at what cost? Fool me once, shame on Obama, but fool me twice and I’m the one responsible.
Nov 9, 2012 / Robert Scheer
A Progressive Surge A Progressive Surge
The “rising American electorate” carried Obama and a strong slate of Democrats to victory.
Nov 8, 2012 / Editorial / The Editors
Eve Ensler Rising Eve Ensler Rising
With a new play, Emotional Creature, and big plans for V-Day 2013, the activist playwright reaches for new heights.
Nov 8, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Laura Flanders