Social Justice

A/BSA students

Campus Admin Ignored Students’ Demands for Black Visibility. So They Took Over Their Building. Campus Admin Ignored Students’ Demands for Black Visibility. So They Took Over Their Building.

The Afrikan/Black Student Alliance of the University of California, Santa Cruz, camped out for three days until the school met its demands.

May 8, 2017 / StudentNation / Georgia Johnson

Asking for a Friend: I Have a Fancy Law Degree, but No One Will Hire Me to Do Good!

Asking for a Friend: I Have a Fancy Law Degree, but No One Will Hire Me to Do Good! Asking for a Friend: I Have a Fancy Law Degree, but No One Will Hire Me to Do Good!

And another reader loves a prickly communist.

May 5, 2017 / Asking for a Friend / Liza Featherstone

A sign outside the Comcast Center in Philadelphia.

Help Activists Collect 1 Million Signatures for Net Neutrality Help Activists Collect 1 Million Signatures for Net Neutrality

Trump’s FCC chairman would allow monopoly Internet service providers like Comcast and Verizon to pick winners and losers online.

May 3, 2017 / no-paywall / NationAction

Chokwe Antar Lumumba

Jackson, Mississippi, Just Nominated Radical Activist Chokwe Antar Lumumba to Be the Next Mayor Jackson, Mississippi, Just Nominated Radical Activist Chokwe Antar Lumumba to Be the Next Mayor

A fresh model for economic and social-justice politics is emerging in the South.

May 3, 2017 / Cities Rising / John Nichols

Adam Jones

‘We Must Actively Stand Up’: John Angelos’s Response to Racism at Fenway Park ‘We Must Actively Stand Up’: John Angelos’s Response to Racism at Fenway Park

The Baltimore Orioles COO has had enough of racism at the ballpark and enough of a society that is breeding more and more hate.

May 2, 2017 / Dave Zirin

People’s Climate March

What We Can Learn from Our ‘Radical’ Past What We Can Learn from Our ‘Radical’ Past

The clashes of the past teach us that we must stay committed to a cause bigger than any one person and be willing to fight for years to come.

May 2, 2017 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Lancaster Stands Up Meeting

Is This Small City the Future of Democratic Engagement in America? Is This Small City the Future of Democratic Engagement in America?

Activists in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, have embarked on a nonstop campaign to resurrect the practice of progressive politics in the heart of Trump country.

May 2, 2017 / Cities Rising / Jimmy Tobias

The Day Without Immigrant Workers Has Begun

The Day Without Immigrant Workers Has Begun The Day Without Immigrant Workers Has Begun

Immigrant workers and fast-food workers across the country are saying no to exploitation in their workplaces and Trump’s attacks from the White House.

May 1, 2017 / Michelle Chen

May Day 2006

Monday’s May Day Marches Could Be the Biggest in Years Monday’s May Day Marches Could Be the Biggest in Years

Ten years after immigrants took to the streets in unprecedented numbers, organizers expect another major showing.

Apr 28, 2017 / Julianne Hing

Mexican family

No One Talks About Life After Deportation; These Mexican Activists Are Changing That No One Talks About Life After Deportation; These Mexican Activists Are Changing That

A network of migrant activists is helping deportees and returnees readjust to life in the country.

Apr 28, 2017 / Laura Weiss

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