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Facing Growing Grassroots Pressure, Wheeler Revises Net Neutrality Proposal
A massive online protest to halt potential elimination of net neutrality is having an impact on the FCC, set to make a proposal May 15.
Peru’s Conga Mine Conflict: Cajamarca Won’t Capitulate
The fight over the Conga mining project is one of Peru's largest current social conflicts.
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Mothers Behind Bars
Mother's Day needs to become a call to arms against the continued oppression and trauma of incarceration experienced by both mothers and children.
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Can Frances Fox Piven’s Theory of Disruptive Power Create the Next Occupy?
In recent years, Occupy Wall Street and the Arab Spring have created renewed interest in such moments of unusual activity. The uprisings have spawned discussion about how activists might …
Corporate Contractors Dance For New Energy Project
Contractors, lobbyists and officials attending the Homeland Security Congress in Washington DC yesterday did a “traditional” Native American circle dance to celebrate a fictitious new US government plan, the …
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Unions Need to Build Power
In this excerpt from the new afterword to “Raising Expectations (And Raising Hell),” Jane McAlevey argues that unions have to start focusing on the inequality of power.
“Back to the Grassroots”: Building a Movement for Sexual and Economic Rights
LBT activist leader Anne Lim gives an interview about her work in the Philippines.
Progressive Activism Seen as Key to Democratic Turnout in Midterm Elections
Members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus see activism and organization as key to Democratic turnout in the midterms, but activists are looking for a politics that puts people and …
Occupy Wall Street on Trial: Cecily McMillan Convicted of Assaulting Cop, Faces Up to Seven Years
An Occupy Wall Street activist has been found guilty of assaulting a New York City police officer in a trial that critics say should have been about the police …
Danny Glover and Kathleen Cleaver on “Black Power Mixtape,” Rare Footage Capturing Movement’s Rise
Based on the film with the same name, the extraordinary new book “The Black Power Mixtape” chronicles the black freedom movement in the United States using found footage of …