Activism

The Obscene Villains of Democracy, Koch Brothers Are Openly Funding an Astroturf Protest Against Occupy Wall St.

By Patrick Clark / New York Observer

Part of a multi-million dollar ad campaign the billionaire brothers have launched to attack Obama.

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It's Alive! Occupy Actions Across the Country Show the Movement's Impact

By Sarah Jaffe, Alyssa Figueroa / AlterNet

Throwing Activists Into Crowded Jails: How Haiti's Government is Silencing the Opposition

By Fran Quigley, Meena Jagannath / AlterNet

Occupy Your Victories: Occupy Wall Street’s First Anniversary

By Rebecca Solnit / TomDispatch

Innovative Model Is Helping Save the Future of Unions and May Turn the Election

By Sarah Jaffe / AlterNet

Progressive Photo of the Day: Chickens Living in an Old Bug

Progressive Photo of the Day: High-Heeled Men Storm the Streets for an End to Sexual Violence

Now the Work of Movements Begins

Activism

8 Ways to Stay Safe at Occupy Wall Street's One-Year Anniversary Protests

Jen Waller, Tom Hintze / AlterNet

Awesome Actions and Demonstrations Planned to Mark 1st Anniversary of Occupy Wall Street

Manissa McCleave Maharawal / AlterNet

Occupy's 'Bat Signal': Working to Keep the Movement in the Spotlight

Peter Rugh / Waging Nonviolence

Stand Against Rahm! The Chicago Teachers' Strike Is the Next Chapter in the Fight Against Plutocracy

Rick Perlstein / Salon

Why Are Some of the Most Popular Organic Brands Trying to Take Down Consumer Labeling Efforts?

Jill Richardson / AlterNet

What You Need to Know About a Worldwide Corporate Power Grab of Enormous Proportions

Laurel Sutherlin / Rainforest Action Network

TransCanada Attempts to Reroute Keystone XL Pipeline, But Tar Sands Blockade Activists Halt Construction

Candice Bernd / Truthout

3 Ways Climate Fights Are Being Won at the Local Level

Jim Shultz / AlterNet

Why the Chicago Teachers Strike Is Really About Better Schools

David Moberg / In These Times

4 Reasons Chicago's Teachers Are on Strike

Miles Kampf-Lassin / Occupied Chicago Tribune

A Chicago Teacher Speaks Out: This Is Why We Fight

Dave Stieber / AlterNet

Why I'm Striking

Xian Barrett / Teacher X

How the Jewish Establishment's Litmus Test on Israel Fuels Anti-Muslim Bigotry

Elly Bulkin and Donna Nevel / AlterNet

A $2,167.02 Water Bill? How a Water Company Forced a 91-year-old Woman To Sell Her Home

Wenonah Hauter / Progressive Populist

Meet the 13-Year-Old Girl Taking on Bottled Water

Maude Barlow / AlterNet

No Papers, No Fear: Undocumented Immigrant Activists Arrested Outside DNC

John Knefel / AlterNet

70 Hours a Week at Puny Wages, Exploited Workers Ditch Their Boss to Start Their Own Street Cafe

Laura Gottesdiener / AlterNet

Exposed: Undercover Agents at Occupy Austin Entrapped Protesters, Endangered Activists

Jen Waller, Tom Hintze / AlterNet

It's a Screwed-Up World When Prostituted Women Are Arrested More Often Than the Johns Who Abuse and Kill Them

Claire Glass / AlterNet

Role-Reversal: Some Cops Have Started Saving Lives From Overdose, Not Just Arresting Drug Users

Tessie Castillo / AlterNet

Catching Up With Mexico's "Caravan for Peace" as the Roving Protest Heads to Washington, D.C.

Phillip Smith / Drug War Chronicle

As Activists Gather at the RNC, Cops Ban... Puppets?

Nadine Bloch / Waging Nonviolence

Pledge to Resist Fracking: Writer-Biologist Sandra Steingraber Issues a Call for Action and a Warning to the Gas Industry

Sandra Steingraber / AlterNet

The 99% Take on the Republican National Convention

Arun Gupta / AlterNet

Farmer Debunks Corporate Propaganda Against Proposed Law to Label Genetically Modified Food

Will Allen / AlterNet

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