Protesters yell at a line of police officers at State and 35th streets, about 3 miles south of the Loop, where police set up a blockade on Sunday, May 31, 2020. (Evan Garcia / WTTW News) I completely agree with the view that the new...
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( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) Running an effective protest is hard. These are organisms with lives of their own. No one can really full plan an action. As we have.
I am having my students in my Protest and Resistance in America course tomorrow read and discuss work by the Rev. William Barber, the minister who leads the Moral Mondays.
Will Bunch on the protests in Chile and how they were caused by the same U.S. style neoliberalism that has also helped unhinge this nation. In 2019, as an autumn of popular uprisings erupts around the globe, the most dramatic revolution of the moment is...
The union movement is a tremendously diverse and complex thing. Anyone who says "unions" should do this and that doesn't know what they are talking about, because these different worker.
Of course Daniel Pantaleo, the murderer of Eric Garner, got off scot-free. Of course he did. That's because cops are allowed to kill black people with impunity. On Tuesday, the.
This is a good remembrance of the Nicaraguan solidarity movement of the 1980s and how organizers did what they could to stop Reagan's illegal actions there. A few weeks later, a group of religious activists met at the Kirkridge Retreat Center in eastern Pennsylvania and...
Thirty years ago today, iconic protests against authoritarian regimes took place in both Poland and China. Their different trajectories have led to very different stories--and different silences. Here are some.
Liberals often have a very shallow understanding of how political change works. They think it is only about voting. We see this all the time on the liberal internet and.
Women with bright pink hats and signs begin to gather early and are set to make their voices heard on the first full day of Donald Trump's presidency, Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017 in Washington. Organizers of the Women's March on Washington...
The Bourbon heir to the French throne has thrown his support behind the gilets jaunes protests. On Facebook. I'm mostly.
In part because of our 24-hour media culture, every political act is defined in terms of winners and losers, with each loss seemingly devastating. There is good reason for that--many.