Guitar Center: Prices So Low, Employees Can’t Survive on Wages Guitar Center: Prices So Low, Employees Can’t Survive on Wages
Workers at Guitar Center, the music gear company recently purchased by Bain Capital, say they can’t survive under new pay structures.
Jun 18, 2013 / Allison Kilkenny
Students Push to Limit School Police After Newtown Students Push to Limit School Police After Newtown
As school districts bolster their police forces, students across California are pushing Sacramento for restorative justice.
Jun 17, 2013 / StudentNation / James Cersonsky and StudentNation
Whose Walmart?: Workers Crash Walmart’s Party Whose Walmart?: Workers Crash Walmart’s Party
Taking inspiration from small strikes and actions over the past few years, OUR Walmart activists struck a note of dissent at the corporation’s annual party.
Jun 17, 2013 / Josh Eidelson
This Week in Poverty: Congress Turns Its Back on Rural America This Week in Poverty: Congress Turns Its Back on Rural America
The closing of a Head Start center in Neodesha, Kansas shows what sequester cuts mean to rural America.
Jun 14, 2013 / Greg Kaufmann
Protesters Worldwide Rally to Support Whistleblower Edward Snowden Protesters Worldwide Rally to Support Whistleblower Edward Snowden
Activists in New York and Hong Kong organize protests to show solidarity with the whistleblower.
Jun 12, 2013 / Allison Kilkenny
North Carolina Is the New Wisconsin North Carolina Is the New Wisconsin
The “Moral Monday” movement is challenging the GOP’s right-wing agenda in the Tarheel state.
Jun 12, 2013 / Ari Berman
Josh Eidelson: Fighting Back Against Walmart’s Exploitation Josh Eidelson: Fighting Back Against Walmart’s Exploitation
The Nation’s Josh Eidelson discusses the striking Walmart workers on Democracy Now!.
Jun 11, 2013 / Press Room
Venice Protest: ‘No to Big Cruise Ships!’ Venice Protest: ‘No to Big Cruise Ships!’
Three days of struggle to defend the ecology of the Venetian lagoon and the life of the city.
Jun 10, 2013 / Jon Wiener
From NOLA to New Jersey, Students Rise Up for Immigrant Justice From NOLA to New Jersey, Students Rise Up for Immigrant Justice
As immigration reform approaches and the semester ends, students hit the streets for racial and reproductive justice.
Jun 7, 2013 / StudentNation / StudentNation
This Week in Poverty: American Winter Arrives at Capitol Hill This Week in Poverty: American Winter Arrives at Capitol Hill
Three Oregonians testifed in the Senate about the lives of the working poor and the state of the American Dream.
Jun 7, 2013 / Greg Kaufmann