Protests

The Progressive movement in America has lost one of its greatest fighters.

Chris Hedges: Being an activist in peaceful mass protest is the only real “crime” Cecily McMillan has committed.

Around the world, environmental activists are imprisoned for peaceful acts to save us all.

Even though we know there will be climate change tragedy, no matter what we do now, we can still avert some disasters, save some species that would otherwise be …

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

Both social movements and electoral movements are imperative for nonviolent social change and should work together, says Green Party member Michael Trudeau.

New documents released provide more evidence that lobbyists and special interest groups are calling the shots within ALEC, undermining that group's latest PR spin that it is a “legislator-driven” …

Poet, novelist, social activist, and important figure in the women's liberation movement, Marge Piercy records a moving account of her own illegal abortion, and speaks to the importance of …

Any courtroom in China or Iran could have been the scene: An 84-year-old Catholic nun in prison garb, chained hand-and-foot and surrounded by heavy Marshals, is shuffled jangling into …

Despite US-backed violence against them, indigenous communities are fighting back as multinational corporations encroach on their lands.