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Social Movements Need To Be Aware of Corporate Influence and Opportunists
Activists should learn from Occupy about the dangers of being co opted.
Millions Sindhi Hold Freedom March in Karachi To Demand Independence
People in the Punjab province celebrated Republic Day in Pakistan on March 23, with CNN claiming there were at least “5 million Sindhis” in attendance.
Andy Shallal: We Need to Harness People Power
Andy Shallal says at the local level is where you can make a change. It's very hard to expect change on the national level.
How Change Happens: The Immigration Uprising
With Congress gridlocked, activists around the country are successfully challenging the injustices inherent in US immigration policy and enforcement.
Honduras: Who Should Really Be On Trial For the Rio Blanco Dam?
An indigenous activist in Honduras is attacked for campaigning against the Agua Zarca Hydroelectric Dam.
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The Joy and Resolve of a Movement Built on Creative Resistance
Art has added vitality and energy to advocacy; and it reaches people at deeper emotional levels and in their hearts conveying what cannot be said with mere facts.
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Hope Dies Last
Last week Guy McPherson had some terrifying things to say about the future of the planet on Thom Hartmann's radio program. He said we are experiencing such a rapidly …
Exclusive: NSA, FBI, DIA Sued over Refusal to Disclose US Role in Imprisonment of Nelson Mandela
In a Democracy Now! exclusive, one of the nation's most prolific transparency activists, Ryan Shapiro, reveals he is suing the NSA, FBI and Defense Intelligence Agency in an attempt …
SOIL Co-Founder and Executive Director, Dr. Sasha Kramer, Selected as a Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur of the Year
SOIL is proud to announce that SOIL’s Co-Founder and Executive Director, Dr. Sasha Kramer, was selected as a 2014 Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur of the Year. Every year the …
Following DOE Approval, LNG Opponents Call on Oregon’s Governor to Protect the State’s Rivers and Ratepayers
The US Department of Energy took the long-expected step of granting a conditional export license to the Jordan Cove liquefied natural gas project in Oregon.