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Dispatch From Sundance: “How to Change the World“
In addition to saving many a whale, Greenpeace revolutionized political activism and advocacy journalism.
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An Explosive Crisis: Government Bickering Clouds Cleanup Effort at Camp Minden
Another round of the sort of bureaucratic finger-pointing that plagued the government's initial response to the crisis has erupted.
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Progressives Have Hope; Just Don’t Ask Jonathan Chait About It
There's been a growing litany of complaints from straight White men - claiming their own marginality.
Reverend Billy Files $500k Claim for False Arrest and Defamation at Grand Central Vigil
Metropolitan Transit Authority spokesperson told media that Reverend “got physical” and “attacked police.”
The Importance of Social Consciousness in an Age of Declining Democracy
It is easy to ignore social problems and the welfare of others when the primary concern is one's own personal happiness.
Federal Prison Sentence Begins for Anti-Drone Activist
Kathy Kelly, co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence, a campaign to end US military and economic warfare, began a three-month jail sentence in federal prison for a protest against …
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White People for Black Lives
I live in this moment as a white person who deeply believes in and who grew up in the Civil Rights Movement, when my family's lives and I were …
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Marissa Alexander and the Price of “Freedom”
If the normative assumption that white lives are valuable, while black and brown lives are disposable, were concretely undermined, the entire power structure, such as it exists, would be …
“Gospel”
The song, “Gospel” and its video are born of the belief that the shift is - however laboriously, painfully and joyfully - underway.
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Willing to Live for Our People
Marchers accompanied some of Chicago's brightest and most politically conscious elementary school students as they rallied to reclaim the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.