Activism

Can Unions Save the Arts and Other 'Creative' Professions?

By Scott Timberg / Salon

Today, musicians work without record labels, journalists work as freelancers and book publishing is collapsing. Unions might take some risk and sting out of the creative destruction.

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Westboro Baptist Church Members Now Live Across the Street From a Rainbow-Striped Gay Rights Center

By Steven Hsieh / AlterNet

Atlanta Housing Activists Retake House For Senior Evicted After Needless Foreclosure

By Shabnam Bashiri / AlterNet

Deadline Looms to Fund Critical Ocean Plastic-Trash Film

By Robert S. Becker / AlterNet

How Much of Your Income Goes Toward Rent? For 11 Million, Shelter Comes at a High Price

By Alyssa Figueroa / AlterNet

America's Deadly Jobs

It's Time to Step Up and Help the Workers of Bangladesh

80-Year-Old North Carolina Educator: Why I Got Arrested Protesting Right-Wing Agenda for Schools

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Activism

Welcome to Ayn Rand Planet: Why the Rich Prosper from the Stock Market While We Get Screwed

Les Leopold / AlterNet

Why Is Vermont’s Governor Peter Shumlin Bowing to Monsanto?

Will Allen / AlterNet

How U.S. Immigration Officers Shackled My Ankle With a Device that Barked Strange Commands

Matias Ramos / UCLA Labor Center

My Activism Resulted in a Right-Wing Campaign for My Deportation

Nancy Meza / UCLA Labor Center

Why I Gave Up My Legal Status

Gaby Pacheco / UCLA Labor Center

Community Members' Fight Against Gas Pipelines Gets Creative

Ted Glick / AlterNet

National Week of Action: Youth-Led Immigrant Rights Movement Fights for '11 Million Dreams'

Alyssa Figueroa / AlterNet

'Guest Workers' Spring Surprise Strike on McDonald's

Josh Eidelson / The Nation

Union Members Fight Foreclosure Evictions With Sit-Downs and Blockades

Alexandra Bradbury / Labor Notes

Vermont Voters Say No to Tar Sands Oil

Brian Tokar / AlterNet

Joel Bitar Battles Canada: New York Activist Faces Unprecedented Extradition Over G20 Protests

Tom Hintze / AlterNet

What Christians Get Wrong About Jesus

Rev. Howard Bess / Consortium News

Where Is Everybody? Why It’s So Tough to Get Your Head Around Climate Change

Tom Engelhardt / TomDispatch

Should Unions Tear a Page From Clicktivism Playbook?

Eric Lee / Equal Times

Some Frat Brothers Join Struggle for Equal Rights for Transgender Students on Campus

Laura Gottesdiener / AlterNet

10 Stunning Things You Should Know About the Environmental Movement -- 'A Fierce Green Fire' Film Inspires

Scott Thill / AlterNet

GOP Plan to Torpedo Economy With Sequester Could Backfire in 2014

Benjamin I. Page / AlterNet

Former CIA Agent, Anti-Torture Activist John Kiriakou Toasted By Progressives as He Prepares For Prison

Adele M. Stan / AlterNet

Are Atheists the New Campus Crusaders?

Katherine Don / Religion Dispatches

40 Cities Around Globe Set to Protest 1,000th Day of Bradley Manning's Imprisonment

Alex Kane / AlterNet

The NDAA and the Death of the Democratic State

Chris Hedges / Truthdig

Thousands Descend on Washington DC to Pressure Obama to Keep His Climate Change Promise

Suzanne Goldenberg / The Guardian

Livestream: Watch the Forward on Climate Rally and March in Washington DC

AlterNet

Why the Sierra Club Lifted Its Ban on Civil Disobedience to Protest Keystone XL Pipeline

Lauren Feeney / Moyers & Company

48 Arrested at Keystone Pipeline Protest as Sierra Club Lifts 120-Year Ban on Civil Disobedience

Juan Gonzalez, Amy Goodman / Democracy Now!

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