Activism

Don’t Let Trump Bury The #Epstein Files!

Don’t Let Trump Bury The #Epstein Files! Don’t Let Trump Bury The #Epstein Files!

Just put these letters together with friends—photograph and post!

Sep 4, 2025 / OppArt / Peter Kuper

A newspaper box with a paper that reads “Michael Bears Down” in the aftermath of Hurricane Michael in Millville, Florida, on October 11, 2018.

News Avoidance and the Climate Majority News Avoidance and the Climate Majority

The next phase of Covering Climate Now’s 89 Percent Project puts faces to the numbers.

Sep 4, 2025 / Mark Hertsgaard

A member of the Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee holds a sign during a protest.

How Young Kashmiris Shape the Struggle for Self-Determination How Young Kashmiris Shape the Struggle for Self-Determination

Silenced and sidelined and between nation-states, young people are organizing for an independent Kashmir.

Sep 4, 2025 / StudentNation / Khadeejah Khan

People rally and march in support of universities and education on April 17, 2025, in New York City. Called a “Rally for the Right to Learn,” the protest consisted of students, teachers, and activists marching to demand that the administration of Donald Trump to stop arresting foreign students and cutting money from universities, among numerous other concerns.

An Open Letter to Our Students: Universities Do Not Deserve You An Open Letter to Our Students: Universities Do Not Deserve You

At the start of the school year, two professors provide some hard truths about the state of academia and what you should fight for.

Sep 4, 2025 / Monica Huerta and Dan-el Padilla Peralta

Ribbons hang on September 22, 2015, adjacent to the parking lot where Hun Joon “Paul” Lee was found dead on a school bus. Lee, a 19-year-old autistic student, died after being left on a school bus at the Whittier Union High School District parking lot in Whittier, California.

The Stereotypes Killing Us Nonspeaking Autistics The Stereotypes Killing Us Nonspeaking Autistics

Another autistic person was left to cook alive in a hot vehicle. Far too often, the so-called normal world treats us as disposable.

Sep 2, 2025 / Jason Jacoby Lee

Speak Up!

Speak Up! Speak Up!

Free speech and the free press are cornerstones of democracy.

Sep 2, 2025 / OppArt / Martha Lewis

Employees with Project Weber-Renew in Providence, Rhode Island.

This Overdose Prevention Center Isn’t Giving Up on Harm Reduction This Overdose Prevention Center Isn’t Giving Up on Harm Reduction

Over the past decade, overdose protections and programs like Project Weber-Renew have expanded, but with Trump back in office, this trend may be short lived.

Sep 2, 2025 / StudentNation / Fareed Salmon

Dodgers pitcher Don Drysdale, right, congratulates Sandy Koufax, left, in the dressing room after Koufax pitched the Dodgers to the National League Championship, hurling a 3-1 win over the Milwaukee Braves in the pennant-clinching game on October 2, 1965.

Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale Belong in the Labor Movement Hall of Fame Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale Belong in the Labor Movement Hall of Fame

In the mid-1960s, the two pitchers inspired major league ballplayers to build a union and challenge the owners’ stranglehold on their lives, pay, and working conditions.

Sep 1, 2025 / Peter Dreier

The DC Night Patrols Are Showing Cities How to Fight Trump’s Occupation

The DC Night Patrols Are Showing Cities How to Fight Trump’s Occupation The DC Night Patrols Are Showing Cities How to Fight Trump’s Occupation

With only their cell phones, medical kits, and the confidence to assert their rights, volunteer night patrols follow and record the armed troops who have taken over the capital.

Aug 29, 2025 / Dave Zirin and Chuck Modiano

An image from the 1971 film “Chicano Moratorium: A Question of Freedom.”

Why the Chicano Moratorium Still Matters Why the Chicano Moratorium Still Matters

55 years ago, young Chicano activists took to the streets to proclaim, “our fight is in the barrio, not Vietnam.” Their protest still resonates to this day.

Aug 29, 2025 / Bill Gallegos

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