Activism

Imitation Outrage: Faking Concern for the Chinese Masses Imitation Outrage: Faking Concern for the Chinese Masses

We do not care a whit about their human rights as long as they satiate our unbridled appetites.

May 3, 2012 / Robert Scheer

Massive May Day Turnout Highlights Media’s Disconnect From Reality Massive May Day Turnout Highlights Media’s Disconnect From Reality

How the establishment media failed during their May Day coverage.

May 3, 2012 / Blog / Allison Kilkenny

May Day 2012: Love in a Hopeless Place? May Day 2012: Love in a Hopeless Place?

May Day in New York was chaotic, creative and diffuse. Was it a glimpse of what’s to come? Or a the wreckage of what’s left on the left?

May 3, 2012 / Blog / Laura Flanders

May Day Protests in Europe May Day Protests in Europe

Across Europe May Day brought out demonstrators, strikers and even some picnickers marking the labor movement celebration and demanding an end to the austerity agenda sweeping th...

May 2, 2012 / Blog / Peter Rothberg

Tens of Thousands March in Oakland, New York for May Day

Tens of Thousands March in Oakland, New York for May Day Tens of Thousands March in Oakland, New York for May Day

Occupy Wall Street, unions and immigrants rights groups collaborated in massive protests around the world on Tuesday, though no one would know that from the establishment media.

May 2, 2012 / Blog / Allison Kilkenny

End the Cover-Up at Walmart End the Cover-Up at Walmart

Join the call from Walmart workers for a thorough and accountable investigation into the company's reported cover-up of bribery in its Mexico operations.

May 2, 2012 / Take Action / NationAction

Free Pussy Riot Free Pussy Riot

A feminist punk band rocks Russian politics and the Orthodox Church.

May 2, 2012 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel

May Day 2012, New York City

May Day 2012, New York City May Day 2012, New York City

Footage from New York City's massive May Day protests.

May 1, 2012 / Video / Francis Reynolds

NYU Kicks Off May Day With Bobst Picket Against 2031 NYU Kicks Off May Day With Bobst Picket Against 2031

The group expressed their opposition to NYU’s 2031 plan, which its opponents characterize as aggressive real estate expansion that threatens the historic character of the Vi...

May 1, 2012 / StudentNation / Brett Chamberlin

Memory and the May Day Martyrs Memory and the May Day Martyrs

May Day, we must remember, was a holiday written in blood.

May 1, 2012 / Blog / Dave Zirin

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