Activism

Will Public Outcry Against Fracking Sink Governor Cuomo's Political Ambitions?

By Alison Rose Levy / AlterNet

On Monday a mass march and rally will take to the streets in New York, which is a week before Governor Cuomo is expected to release his plans for fracking in the state.

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Howard Zinn Turns 90: The Great Legacy of the People's Historian

By Anthony Arnove / AlterNet

One Restaurant's 'Best Butt' Discount, and Other Tales of Everyday Sexism

By s.e. smith / xojane

Anti-Fracking Protesters Confront Pennsylvania Gov During Kayaking PR Trip on Endangered River

By Nora Eisenberg / AlterNet

California Domestic Workers Dance and Sing Their Way to Better Treatment on the Job

By Michelle Chen / In These Times

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

How Can Environmental Activists Get Beyond the 'Polar Bear Problem' in Africa?

Eileen Flanagan / Waging Nonviolence

“The Chief of Police Stepped On Me and Then He Charged Me With Rioting”: Activists Face Jail Time for Defending Homes

Sarah Jaffe / AlterNet

Van Jones: Hope for the Best, Prepare for the Worst

Van Jones / Chelsea Green Publishing

Uprising in Montana: Activists Take a Stand Against Coal Exports

Scott Parkin / AlterNet

Tar Sands Pipeline Construction Begins in Texas, Activists Launch Blockade

Candice Bernd / Occupy.com

"We Have No Choice But to Step Up": Youth Activists Come Together to Build a Movement for Student Power

Sarah Jaffe / AlterNet

Why Don't American Students Strike?

Zachary A. Bell / The Nation

Don't Stop With Chick-Fil-A --Why The LGBT Community Should Boycott Israel

Nadia Awad, Hannah Mermelstein / AlterNet

The Shocking Second HIV Epidemic Among U.S. Gay Men That No One Is Talking About

Michael Bouldin / AlterNet

Student Organizers Cheer Arrival of Deferred Action, Brace for Bigger Fight

Jacob Surpin / AlterNet

Mexican Poet Retired His Pen When His Son Was Murdered -- Now He's Turned Tragedy Into a Movement to the End Drug War

Jamie Haase / AlterNet

Lobby Group Promoting Killer Drones Shuts Down Dissent

Medea Benjamin / AlterNet

Victory: A Working-Class Neighborhood Defends Itself Against a Dangerous Gas Project -– And Wins

Amanda Werner / AlterNet

Returned Badges, Presidential Opposition: Backlash to the Boy Scouts' Anti-Gay Policies

Ted Cox / AlterNet

Why We Should Care About the Homeless Vote

Jin Zhao / AlterNet

Mexican Poet's US Caravan for Peace Tours to End the Drug War

Tom Hayden / The Nation

Liberate! The Radical New Movement You Need to Know About

Laura Gottesdiener / Waging Nonviolence

7 Things the Media Missed About the Chick-fil-A Saga

Kristin Rawls / AlterNet

Chicago's Home-Liberation Front

Laura Gottesdiener / Waging Nonviolence

Time to REBEL! 5 Ways We Can Break the Big Banks' Death Grip on the Economy

Stephen Lerner / AlterNet

Revolutionary Plots

Rebecca Solnit / Orion Magazine

Can Whole Foods Coexist with the Homegrown Food Movement?

adrienne maree brown / AlterNet

4 Reasons Atheists Have to Fight for Their Rights

Greta Christina / AlterNet

Right-Wing Rhetoric Heats Up, As Talk of Nazis Enters the Conversation

Frederick Clarkson / Religion Dispatches

Why We Can't Depend On Activists To Create Change

Jonathan Matthew Smucker / Devoke The Apocalypse

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