News | Human Rights SDS Leader Tom Hayden on Vietnam: We Must Challenge the Pentagon on the Battlefield of Memory Tom Hayden: "Each generation has to wrestle with the history of what came before, and ask: ‘Whose interest does this history serve?"’ By Juan González & Amy Goodman , DemocracyNow! May 26, 2015 Truthout
News | Not Lovin’ It: Thousands Storm McDonald’s Head Quarters to Protest Low Wages The protest comes on the heels of the largest-ever strike against the fast food industry in April. By Terrance Heath , CampaignforAmerica'sFuture May 25, 2015 Truthout
News Analysis | Environment & Health Dozens Denied Access to FERC Public Meeting Agency refuses to acknowledge widespread outrage at role in burgeoning gas infrastructure. By Anne Meador & John Zangas , DCMediaGroup May 20, 2015 Truthout
News Analysis | Nuclear Weapons Protesters’ Sabotage Conviction Overturned An Appeals Court has vacated the sabotage convictions of peace activists Greg-Boertje-Obed, and his co-defendants Michael Walli, and Sr. Megan Rice. By John LaForge , Truthout May 18, 2015 Truthout
News Analysis | More Than 100 Wounded in Brutal Police Reaction to Teachers’ Strike in South of Brazil The clashes were the result of violent acts by the military police against public servants, mostly teachers of the state of Parana. By translated by Marianna Olinger & Dimitri do Valle , Ninja May 11, 2015 Truthout
Interview | Economy & Labor Was It Legal to Hold Baltimore Protestors More Than 24 Hours Without Bail? Attorney A. Dwight Pettit and law professor Byron Warnken discuss the judge's decision. By Paul Jay , TheRealNewsNetwork May 7, 2015 Truthout
News Analysis | Prisons & Policing The Wars Come Home: A Five-Step Guide to the Police Repression of Protest Thoroughly militarized, surveillance-heavy forces are bringing counterinsurgency thinking from Iraq and Afghanistan back to this country. By Michael Gould-Wartofsky , TomDispatch May 5, 2015 Truthout
Op-Ed | The Irish Are Fighting Back The grassroots campaign against water charges in Ireland is politicizing people discouraged by politics as usual and turning into full-scale resistance to austerity. By Julien Mercille , Truthout May 5, 2015 Truthout
News | Human Rights “Our Time Is Now”: Baltimore State’s Attorney Mosby Charges Six Baltimore Cops in Freddie Gray Death We play excerpts from Mosby's dramatic announcement, when she acknowledges protests calling for justice in the case. By Amy Goodman , DemocracyNow! May 5, 2015 Truthout
Attempting to Divide Protesters, de Blasio puts Progressives and Rioters into the Same Camp These atrocities are so institutional, so basic to the political establishment. By A.M. Gittlitz , Truthout May 5, 2015 Truthout