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Uprising Continues in Milwaukee After Police Kill 23-Year-Old Black Man
Protests are continuing in Milwaukee two days after police shot dead a 23-year-old African-American man named Sylville Smith.
Behind the Booing: A Sanders Delegate Reflects on the DNC Protests
Sanders delegates did not succeed in changing DNC rules but they brought the TPP to the forefront of media discussions.
Dave Zirin: Protests by Athletes and Displaced Rio Residents Accompany Opening of 2016 Olympic Games
Dave Zirin, sports editor for The Nation magazine, says protests from athletes attending the 2016 Olympics.
Freedom Square: Making Black Lives Matter
Freedom Square invites collaboration with families of police violence as well as intra-community violence, survivors of police torture and brutality and all community residents.
Rep. Keith Ellison: DNC Sanders Protesters Are “Actually Helping Us“
In a week when Democrats focused on the national election, progressives emphasized the need for local organizing.
Lessons in Activism: Middle School Students Advocate for Syrian Refugees
Nassim Zerriffi's activism campaign class teaches middle schoolers in Manhattan how democracy really works.
“No More War”: Protesters Disrupt Ex-CIA Director Leon Panetta’s DNC Speech
Protests on the floor of the convention continued on Wednesday.
Danny Glover and Bernie Delegate Larry Hamm: The Sanders Movement Must Stay Mobilized to Push Change
The address at the DNC from mothers whose unarmed children were killed by law enforcement, or due to gun violence, marked an extraordinary moment.
Breaking Ground at Cinema Hebron
Brant Rosen participated in an incredible, unprecedented mass action of civil disobedience in the heart of Israel's unjust and illegal occupation.
RNC Protesters “Wall Off Trump” and Confront Police Violence
Protesters erected a “wall” with banners outside the RNC, and kept systemic police violence in the spotlight even as a sea of police flooded the streets around them.