Activism

It has been 44 years since the first Earth Day protests when 20 million Americans demonstrated for a cleaner environment, setting the groundwork for what was to become the …

Could guns help liberal activists stand against the government, too?

A new reports finds the killings of environmental and land rights activists worldwide has tripled over the past decade.

Arizona State University student was arrested on prostitution charges after protesting Project ROSE, raising questions as to whether she was singled out for voicing her opposition.

We need a whole new approach to labor law in the United States that provides workers more freedom and democracy in the workplace.

On the 20th anniversary of the first democratic vote in South Africa, it is the resistance and real democratic progress of the time that should be celebrated, says John …

Based on Brennan Center proposal, bill would restore voting rights to 4.4 million Americans.

Lingering effects of the organized post-1945 destruction of the New Deal coalition helps explain continuing austerity and other anti-democratic policies pursued by US governments, says economist Richard Wolff

Social change movements want to fix a world dominated by exploitative relationships. Most social change theory aims at fixing particular systems, practices, toolkits, etc. Theory that works from the …

Indigenous leaders are warning of increased violence in the fight to save their dwindling forests and ecosystems from extractive companies.