One of the real heroic acts of the modern age was when Bree Newsome (now Bree Newsome Bass) climbed the flag pole at the South Carolina statehouse to take the down the Treason in Defense of Slavery flag. That act really started the modern era...
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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,.
( 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 movement. I want to emphasize something he said in this interview. It's really something that...
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.
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 Department of Justice announced that it will not file charges against Daniel Pantaleo, the white...
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,.
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 in conversations with other liberals. All that matters is registering people to vote, running for...
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.
The Bourbon heir to the French throne has thrown his support behind the gilets jaunes protests. On Facebook. I'm mostly.