Activism

After Assault on Protester, Israel Lobbyist Forced to Pay Medical Fees

By Medea Benjamin / AlterNet

Rae Abileah was attacked after she interrupted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to Congress.

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Why a Major Food Organization Is Teaming Up With Monsanto and Friends to Block Your Right to Know What's in Your Food

By Ronnie Cummins / AlterNet

The Top 5 Most Hypocritical Corporate Sponsors

By Alyssa Figueroa / AlterNet

Thousands Converge in Washington to Launch National Movement Against Fracking

By Sabrina Artel / AlterNet

Here, Us, Now: Students Come Together This Week to Build a Powerful Nationwide Movement

By Biola Jeje, Isabelle Nastasia / 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

Punks vs. Putin: How Pussy Riot Managed to Give Russia's Leader His Biggest Political Headache Yet

Carole Cadwalladr / The Observer UK

The Sky Is Now Legally Protected, Thanks to a Texas Judge

David Morris / On the Commons

Come Back Woody Guthrie, We Need You: America's Great Folk Singer Would Have Turned 100

Danny Goldberg / Dissent Magazine

A Piece of American History That the Corporate Capitalists Want Us to Forget: Battle of Blair Mountain

Chris Hedges / Truthdig

Who and What Can Possibly Save American Democracy? 4 Key Questions

Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet

Did the NYPD Break International Law in Suppressing Protest?

John Knefel / AlterNet

5 Critical Actions That Really Can Put Us on a Sustainable Path

Alyssa Figueroa / AlterNet

Occupy the Dam: Brazil's Indigenous Uprising

John Perkins / YES! Magazine

Hundreds of Medical Marijuana Supporters Protest Obama in Oakland as Feds Escalate War on Pot

J.A. Myerson / AlterNet

The Story of Change

Annie Leonard / The Story of Stuff

Should Women Have the Right to Go Topless in Public? An Interview With NYC's Topless Activist

Shiuan Butler / AlterNet

'We're Here, We're Queer, and We're Not Going Shopping!' Protesters Call Out Corporate Sponsorship at Pride Parade

Alyssa Figueroa / AlterNet

5 Ways to Fight Back Against Arizona's Racist Ethnic Studies Law

Julianne Hing / ColorLines

John Robbins: Life on the Frontlines of the Food Revolution

Tara Lohan / AlterNet

New York Activists Blockade Foreclosure Auctions to Stop Banks Selling Homes

Sarah Jaffe / AlterNet

What the French Revolution Tells Us About Today's Activist Movements

Nicholas Pell / AlterNet

Why I Had to Challenge Amnesty International-USA's Claim That NATO's Presence Benefits Afghan Women

Jodie Evans / AlterNet

We Need Free Thinkers Or Society Will Shrivel Up and Die

Chris Hedges / Truthdig

Police Reform Activists Targeted by NYPD Won't Give In to Threats

Kristen Gwynne / AlterNet

Major Rent Strike Against Millionaire Slumlord Catches Fire in Brooklyn

Laura Gottesdiener / AlterNet

Occupy National Gathering Brings Together Occupiers From Far and Wide

Jake Blumgart / AlterNet

The Day After The Fourth of July

Mike Lux / Daily Kos

Why Occupy Has Faded

Arun Gupta / The Guardian

Weimar America: Four Major Ways We're Following In Germany's Fascist Footsteps

Robert Cruickshank / AlterNet

What GIS Mapping Technology Can Tell You About the Health of Your Neighborhood and Your Risk for Illness

Christine MacDonald / AlterNet

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