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Activism
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From Black August to Black Lives Matter
Black August, a month of political prisoner activism and commemoration, can help remind us of the nation's exponentially expanding racist prison system.
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Criminalizing the History of US Radical Underground Movements
For a book striving for a comprehensive portrait of underground movements, “Days of Rage” fails to capture why such radical organizations did what they did.
How Can We Make People Care About Climate Change?
Per Espen Stoknes talks about the psychological barriers to public action on climate and how to overcome them.
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Having Prevented Previous Overkills, Can New Zealand Stop TPP?
New Zealanders have long challenged Western Industrialization's models of property and corporate rights.
Along the Atlantic Coast, Resistance to Oil and Gas Drilling Grows
What happened in North Carolina is the bellwether for the grassroots movement against oil and gas drilling in Atlantic Ocean waters.
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The Rad History Book Every Girl (and Boy) Should Have on Their Bookshelf
A new feminist children's book honors 26 awesome women who changed the world.
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Where the Trans-Pacific Partnership Could Lose
North Americans could take a lesson from activists in Chile who have made their government draw red lines on the corporate friendly investment deal.
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FreeHer: Formerly Incarcerated Women Build a National Network
Formerly incarcerated women recently gathered to emphasize that it's time the US ended the mass criminalization of Black and poor women.
Where Did the Antiwar Movement Go?
The spectacle of slaughter never ends, even if the only Americans watching are sometimes unnerved drone video analysts.
Artists at the Venice Biennale Respond to the Black Lives Matter Movement
We look at the state of the Black Lives Matter movement and the art world.