Activism

How Queer Activists Are Getting the Better of Conservatives

By Pam Chamberlain / Political Research Associates

LGBT organizations are behaving in unconventional ways -- and their strategies may outfox conservative bigotry.

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Proposed Texas Voter ID Law Would Suppress Student Voters

By Christina Sanders / AlterNet

Why We Fight for Democracy in the Workplace

By Brigid O'Farrell / AlterNet

Fracking Los Angeles: What Life Is Like on the Country's Biggest Urban Oilfield

By Sabrina Artel / AlterNet

Oil-Soaked Bears and Fake Businessmen: How the Yes Men and Greenpeace Punked Shell

By Brooke Jarvis / Salon

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

Bring on the Gay Boy Scouts

Mary Elizabeth Williams / Salon

How the Wisconsin Uprising Took the Wrong Turn

Andy Kroll / TomDispatch.com

'When Workers Work Sick, It's Unhealthy for All of Us': New York's Battle for Paid Sick Leave

Jin Zhao / AlterNet

8 Ways Delusional Right-Wingers Are Blowing Wisconsin Out of Proportion

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

Progressive Movement Rises Up But Can't Oust Walker From Wisconsin Governorship

Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet

Ayn Rand Thinks He's a Parasite, But My Brother Kevin Contributes Greatly to Our Society

Mike Lux / AlterNet

Maria Gunnoe Testifies Before Congress: Mountaintop Removal Is Killing People

Jeff Biggers / AlterNet

14 Rules For Revolt -- Or What I Learned from the Front Lines of the 1960s

Bill Zimmerman / Random House Publishing Group

Health Care System Leaves Patients Frustrated--Nurses Work for a Solution

Michelle Chen / In These Times

Obama Uses Myths About Vietnam to Silence Anti-War Protest Today

David Sirota / Salon

Workers Who Occupied Their Factory and Beat Bank of America Now On Their Way to Owning the Factory

Yana Kuchinoff / TruthOut.org

Meet the Corporate Front Groups Fighting to Make Sure You Can't Know What's in Your Food

Ronnie Cummins, Alexis Baden-Mayer / AlterNet

Can Shareholder Activists Force the World's Biggest Oil Company to End Discrimination?

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

John Nichols on the Fight to Recall Extremist Gov. Scott Walker: It's Money-Power vs. People-Power

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

Why Activists in the US and Around the World Should be Learning from Montreal Student Strikers

Manissa McCleave Maharawal, Zoltán Glück / Waging Nonviolence

Success! How Progressives Stalled the Deregulation Agenda of Greedy Telecoms and ALEC

Sarah Jaffe / AlterNet

Creating Change Is the People's Job

Deepak Bhargava / YES! Magazine

How I Became Stephen Colbert's Lawyer -- And Joined the Fight to Rescue Our Democracy from Citizens United

Trevor Potter / Campaign Legal Center

Communication as a Human Right: Creating a New Media Infrastructure for Detroit

Victoria Goff / AlterNet

What Fires Young People's Activism? A New Study Asks Them

Rinku Sen / ColorLines

I Have Cancer -- And I'm More Stressed By America's Healthcare System Than My Disease

Kelly Cuvar / AlterNet

Why a Growing Movement of Young People Could Ignite a Workers' Revolution

Michelle Chen / The New Press

Is the Corporate Personhood Reform Movement Doomed to Fail in Washington?

Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet

One System for All: Fighting for Universal Access to Health Care

Beverly Bell / Other Worlds

Protest Roars to Life at Chicago NATO Summit in Face of Violent Police Crackdowns

Matt Reichel / AlterNet

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