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Germanos: 400 PPM Milestone
May 12, 2013
Levels of atmospheric CO2 have never been this high in human history; will 'rise in carbon be matched by rise in climate activism'?
Gottesdiener: Mortgages in the Era of Mass Terror
May 02, 2013
Since 2007, Wall Street has evicted four million families
Giesa: Fighting Wage Theft
Apr 20, 2013
Direct action can be as simple as organizing five or 10 co-workers to march into the boss’s office to file a grievance or to demand a change in working conditions
Gottesdiener: Organizing A Workplace?
Apr 02, 2013
“Everyone has the pain and anger inside. “And we are going to be liberated tomorrow. It’s all going to explode.”
Greenberg: Learning to Love Torture
Jan 11, 2013
Seven easy, onscreen steps to making U.S. torture and detention policies once again palatable
Gottesdiener: Occupy Homes, Growing Daily
Dec 26, 2012
Rather than coping with the scarcity of the 1930s, the United States now confronts vast, unprecedented wealth and gaping economic inequality
Germanos: Right-To-Work Legislation Passes Michigan House
Dec 07, 2012
Michigan's Republican-dominated legislature on Thursday passed conservative, anti-worker, anti-women measures
Gottesdiener: A New Kind Of Disaster Relief
Nov 04, 2012
Unlike poverty, homelessness, hunger, displacement and other untenable living situations, weather-wrought devastation mobilizes public sympathy and government action
Gottesdiener: Brooklyn Women Make Their Building Theirs
Jul 17, 2012
The campaign is pushing the community not only to stand up for their rights as tenants, but to also reconsider social and political marginalization itself
Guma: Military Spending: Where are the Jobs?
Jun 09, 2012
Dire warnings that thousands of Vermont jobs are at risk due to looming defense cuts and related changes in Air Force priorities may turn out to be overstated
Gottesdiener: Organizing Against Bank of America
May 10, 2012
Community building and education can spark direct action even in corners of the United States without long histories of housing organizing
Gaus: Bankruptcy Used to Crack Unions
Mar 06, 2012
Corporations are turning to bankruptcy courts not necessarily because they can’t pay their bills—but because those courts allow them to negotiate with a hammer
Glick: Fracking, Obama and the 2012 Debate
Feb 21, 2012
It is up to the climate movement and the movements against extreme energy extraction to speak up and take action loudly and clearly to force those who want to lead us to respond
Garcia: 15-M Movement Deepens Civil Disobedience
Feb 14, 2012
Spanish activists associated with the May 15 movement began a new campaign, Yo No Pago (I Don’t Pay), inviting fellow citizens to practice civil disobedience
Glick: More than Just the Climate Movement?
Oct 30, 2011
Let’s win one for our wounded Mother Earth and its people. Let’s have a massive turnout on November 6th
Grossman: Rise of the Planet of the People
Oct 28, 2011
Activism is a way to set our own agenda, instead of simply responding to crises
Glick: The Tar Sands Action
Sep 06, 2011
There was so much hope for the future in and around the two weeks of sitting-in and standing-in in front of the White House, August 20-September 3
Glick: Mass Movements in the U.S.
Aug 20, 2011
The climate movement has emerged over the last few years as a genuine mass popular movement that continues to grow and develop
Glick: Youth and Positive Social Change
Jun 30, 2011
The repercussions from this willingness to take on a big challenge, to risk failure, are continuing to reverberate
May 23, 2013
“The banks needed new consumers. So, they moved into the minority market, selling these incredibly exploitative predatory loans”