Solidarity

On Trayvon Martin and Building Transracial Solidarity

Victoria Coats | Posted 04.29.2012

Read More: Activism, White Privilege, Solidarity, Trayvon Martin, Racism, Anti-Racism, Racial Profiling, Postbourgie, Black Voices News

In the wake of the murder of Trayvon Martin, some people have been reminded that anti-black racist violence is, in fact, a regular problem in the Unit...

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As the World Turns

Paula Gordon | Posted 04.01.2012

SAG-AFTRA, one union, now stands where once there were a separate Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Actors. The labor movement is far from dead.

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From Occupy Wall Street to Durkheim: What Is Solidarity?

Brandi Williams and Nick Snoux | Posted 03.04.2012

Read More: Mechanical Solidarity, Emile Durkheim, Organic Solidarity, Solidarity, Occupy Denver, Occupy Wall Street, Detroit News

The Occupy Wall Street movement seems to be at a transition period, attempting to go from a primitive version of society to a more complex version, accompanied by the development of a more systematic division of labor.

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Remembering Vaclav Havel

Andrew Nagorski | Posted 02.20.2012

Read More: Communism, Remembrance, Eastern Europe, Vaclav Havel, Poland, Solidarity, Free Speech, Czechoslovakia, Velvet Revolution, Dictatorship, Soviet, Newsweek, Playwright, Czech Republic, World News

Looking back at my encounters with Havel, I'm struck by three dominant character traits: his moral courage, his ability to recognize and live with the contradictions of human behavior, and his sense of the absurd.

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Occupy Denver To Disrupt Loveland Walmart

The Huffington Post | Matt Ferner | Posted 12.12.2011

Read More: Corporate Protests, Bank Protests, Video, Walmart Loveland, Occupy Salt Lake City, Economic Protests, Walmart Rally Loveland, #Occupydenver, Occupy Denver, We Are the 99 Percent, Occupy Wall Street, Ows, Occupy Walmart, #Occupyslc, #Solidarity, #Occupywallstreet, #Ows, Denver News

Occupy Denver is planning a rally to disrupt the large Walmart Distribution Center in Loveland on Monday. The rally is intended to show solidarity and...

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What Ron Paul, Occupy Wall Street, Lech Walesa, Tahrir Square, Tiananmen Square and Many Tea Party People Have in Common

Brent Budowsky | Posted 02.05.2012

Read More: Teap Party, Change, Mitt Romney, Tahrir Square, Occupy Wall Street, Solidarity, Ron Paul, Global Unrest, Vladimir Putin, Grobal Protest, Lech Walesa, Barack Obama, Politics News

Part I We live in an age of global protest, global unrest and global demands for change in a world where the vast majority of men and women believe t...

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Green Mountain Conversion

Thomas Worcester | Posted 02.01.2012

Read More: Benedict XVI, Common Good, Vermont, Conversion, Solidarity, Green Mountain, Green Faith, Green Vermont, Vermont Green Mountain, Vermont Environment, Religion News

Are the monks and the sisters but marginal Catholics in these concerns? I dare say that they are not. In recent years Pope Benedict XVI has made some important statements about respect for the environment.

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Tangled Up in Blue: Can There Be Solidarity Between Activists and Police?

Randall Amster | Posted 01.22.2012

Read More: Scott Olsen, 99 Percent, Nonviolence, Law Enforcement, Pancho Ramos Stierle, Dorli Rainey, Police, Protest, Solidarity, Occupy Wall Street, Uc Davis Pepper Spray, Occupy Movement, Politics News

The police, as a class, are generally in the 99 percent -- and while they often do their bidding for the 1 percent, many of them have cultural and economic roots that are more closely aligned with those against whom they are being asked to use force.

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Unity Is Strength for Progressives

Amy B. Dean | Posted 01.04.2012

Read More: Afl-Cio, Progressive Movement, Organized Labor, Labor Movement, Labor Unions, Solidarity, Occupy Wall Street, Politics News

Business and liberal elites have long invested in developing collaborative leadership. In Occupy Wall Street and beyond, grassroots progressives are now getting into the game of working together.

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Low Wage Concerns Are Not The Ties That Bind at Zuccotti Park

HuffingtonPost.com | Janell Ross | Posted 12.04.2011

Read More: Video, Low Wages, Solidarity, Occupy Wall Street, Pensions, Protests, Public Pensions, Economic Inequality, New York City Police Department, Business News

On Sunday, Jack Adamo stood at the corner of Broadway and Cedar Street, one of the ways into Lower Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park, holding a hand-written...

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Rosh Hashana 5772: Hope And Israel's Social Justice Movement.

Carlo Strenger | Posted 11.29.2011

Read More: Dialogue, Solidarity, Rosh Hashanah, Healing, Israel Social Protests, Israel Protests, Israel, Renewal, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Religion News

The social justice movement is the beginning of a process of healing: the realization that political process can work through dialogue rather than by power alone...

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Your Vote Can Help Food Not Bombs Feed Hundreds of Hungry Families

Andy Stepanian | Posted 08.07.2011

Read More: Food Not Bombs, Food, Charity, Activism, Solidarity, Philanthropy, Vivint Gives Back, Feeding the Hungry, Vegan Meals, Vegan, Impact News

Food Not Bombs and Vivint Gives Back are showing us that DIY hunger relief and community empowerment are more then just bright-eyed ideals -- they are an ever-growing concrete reality.

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Wisconsin Is a Tide Turner; Can We Ride the Wave?

Christine Pelosi | Posted 06.06.2011

Wisconsin is a generational choice. Just as the greatest generation was judged by World War Two, the Mad Men generation was judged by civil rights and the baby boomers were judged by Vietnam, ours will be judged by Wisconsin.

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In Defense of Teachers Unions

Chris Lehmann | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Education, Teacher Unions, Solidarity, Education Reform, Teacher-Bashing, Teachers, Unions, Education News

Unions remind us that those who are recent to the struggle of educating a nation may have some good ideas, but that they must work in concert with the teachers -- not against us.

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The Unbreakable Culture of the Occupied Capitol

Ben Brandzel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Madison Wisconsin, Governor Scott Walker, Wisconsin, Madison Protests, Solidarity, Scott Walker, Wisconsin Protests, Politics News

Many of the same officers who guarded us during the day would take their uniforms off at night and join us in protest, often bringing large "cops for labor" signs with them.

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Weekly Audit: Police Defy Order to Clear Protesters from Wisconsin Capital

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Photography, Democracy Now!, Anonymous, David Koch, Collective Bargaining, Police, Civil Rights, Middle Class, Sanitation Worker, Ddos, Layoff, Kelda Helen Roys, Dc, Mother Jones, Matthew Rothschild, Scott Walker, Protest, Dues, Rally, Andy Kroll, Union, Quorum, Illinois, New York, Martin Luther King, Budget, Solidarity, The Progressive, George Warner, Care2, The Uptake, Colorlines, Campus Progress, Wisconsin, Madison, Amy Goodman, Jessica Pieklo, Jon Erpenbach, Senate, Economy, Indiana, Politics News

By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger On Monday afternoon, the Capitol Police in Madison, Wisconsin refused to enforce an order to clear the...

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100,000+ Protest Across America, 3,000 in Denver

Nancy Cronk | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Women's Reproductive Rights, Collective Bargaining, Signs, Workers, Solidarity, Colorado, Denver, Labor Unions, Protesters, Crowd, Wisconsin, Protest, Rally, Teachers, Pro-Choice, Union, Washington, Dennis Kucinich, Chicago, Oregon, Illinois, Boston, Madison, New York, Indiana, Ma, New Mexico, Ca, Albany, Oakland, Denver News

Rallies were held at state capitols in all fifty states on Saturday, bringing out hundreds of thousands of Americans to stand in solidarity with workers in Wisconsin.

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Poland, Quo Vadis?

Donna Baranski-Walker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Arab World, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Democracy, Poland, Solidarity, Arab-Israeli Conflict, World News

There are so many ways Poland can share its own remarkable model of successful social change and nation building. Poland, what path will you choose?

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Attempts to Deny Wisconsin Workers the Right to Choose a Union -- Simply Un-American

Robert Creamer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tabrir Square, Hosni Mubarack, Collective Bargaining, Dwight Eisenhower, Scott Walker, Abraham Lincoln, Solidarity, Wisconsin Public Employees, Unions, Breaking News, Politics News

At this moment the Governor of Wisconsin Scott Walker is doing his best to strip teachers and other state workers of the right to choose a union to negotiate their wages and working conditions.

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Africa's Youths United Can Never be Defeated

Alemayehu G. Mariam | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt Emergency Law, Pol Pot Cambodia, Barre of Somalia, Warsaw, Vaclav Havel, Egypt Political Prisoners, Al Bashir Sudan, Winston Churchill, Egypt Torture, Polish Roundtable Talks, Desmond Tutu, Nonviolent Resistance, Somoza Nicaragua, El-Nimery Sudan, Nelson Mandela, Lech Walesa, Tunisia Revolution, Hoxha Albania, Ceausescu Romania, Pervez Musharraf Pakistan, Ne Win Mynamar, Shah of Iran, Rosa Parks, International Criminal Court, Mobutu of Zaire, Saddam Iraq, Bokassa Central African Republic, African Youth, Law No. 162 of 1958, Idi Amin of Uganda, Hissien Habre Chad, Pincohet Chile, Muslims and Christians Tahrir Square, Dictatorship Middle East, Egypt Secret Police, Kenya ICC, Wojciech Jaruzelski, Mubarak Shoe, Egypt Army, Suharto Indonesia, Stroessner Paraguay, Gdansk, Marcos Philippines, Egypt Revolution, Zenawi Dictator, Martin Luther King, Charles Taylor Liberia, Mubarak, Solidarity, Irhal, Gandhi, World News

Mubarak, Irhal! A specter is haunting Africa and the Middle East - the specter of an awesome army of youths on the move, in revolt, marching for free...

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Despite Harassment, Peace Activists Vow to Continue Work

Randall Amster | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Civil Liberties, Foia, Anti-War Movement, Activism, Grand Jury, Solidarity, Memphis, Chicago, Minneapolis, Fbi, Surveillance, Peace, Fbi-Infiltration, Harassment, Civil Rights, Politics News

On January 25, 2011, people gathered in cities across America to demonstrate against the ongoing harassment of peace organizations and individual acti...

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Repeal, Redemption, and Ripple Effects

Hans Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 111th Congress, Bill Clinton, Congress, Colin Powell, Bullying, Solidarity, President Obama, Mike Mullen, Harvey Milk, Defense of Marriage Act, Maine, Marriage Equality, Gays in the Military, Susan Collins, Immigration Reform, Pennsylvania, Robert Gates, DREAM Act, Connecticut, Dadt, LGBT Rights, Sadism, Joe Lieberman, Michigan, Birthright Citizenship, Carl Levin, 110th Congress, Patrick Murphy, Politics News

Any talk of redeeming acts in public life tends to focus on individuals. Character and career are the arcs of this familiar story line, punched up by ...

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Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh Were Wrong About Ex-Polish President Lech Walesa

Liz Glover | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rush Limbaugh Obama, Glenn Beck, Socialism, Lech Walesa, Rush Limbaugh, Solidarity, Politics News

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Gdansk, the Domino that Toppled the Berlin Wall

Alex Storozynski | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Kosciuszko Foundation, Lech Walesa, Berlin Wall, Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev, Pope John Paul II, Poland, Solidarity, World News

During the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union were locked in a struggle between capitalism and communism, ready to annihilate each other...

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Poland's Solidarity: A Lesson for America

Andrew Nagorski | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Democrat, Economic Security, Lech Walesa, America, Republican, Poland, Solidarity, Politics News

One lesson from pre-1989 Poland that applies to the United States now: if you ignore or paper over underlying economic problems, you will eventually pay a high political price.

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