Activism

The Momentum Conference in SF: Sharing What's Working

Bob Harris | Posted 07.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Tides Foundation, Activism, John Edwards, Momentum, Psychology, Messaging, Social Activism, Civil Rights, Politics News
Bob Harris

I'm sitting here at Momentum watching Alex Gibney, director of Taxi to the Dark Side, talking about waterboarding, Gitmo, and how America descended in...

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Jason Linkins

The Upside Of Jesse Helms: Memorable Resistance

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jesse Helms, Segregationist Politics, ACT UP, Activism, Jesse Helms AIDS, North Carolina, Politics News

Throughout his lengthy career, Jesse Helms did the Republican Party no favors. A shambling, verminous bag of bigotry, Helms' presence at the forefron...

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Recreate 68, the DNC and the Urgent Need to Reinvent Our Political Language

Roberto Lovato | Posted 07.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Culture, Barbarianisms and Other Babel, History, DNC and Obama, Media, The Politics of Language, DNC and Denver, Elections, Activism, Denver Protests, Language and Politics, DNC Protest, Protest Music, Barack Obama, Politics News
Roberto Lovato

"Recreate 68" sounds more like something more appropriate for Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young reunion concert than for a movement of our troubled times.

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Help Save NYC Nightlife

Ryan J. Davis | Posted 07.05.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Liquor, Activism, New York City, Liquor Licenses, Nightclubs, The Roxy, Night Life, Gentrification, Entertainment News
Ryan J. Davis

Beyond its cultural and historical importance, the Roxy remains a beloved fixture of New York nightlife and has earned the right to reopen in the neighborhood that it has fostered for over 30 years.

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Real Change Happens Offline

Sally Kohn | Posted 07.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Community Organizing, Community Values, Youth Vote, Election, Internet, Ronald Reagan, Millenials, Activism, Youth Activism, Politics News
Sally Kohn

Internet activism is individualistic: It's great for a sense of interconnectedness, but the Internet does not bind individuals in shared struggle the same as the face-to-face activism of the 1960s and '70s did.

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Awakener; My Occupation. And yours?

Rob Kall | Posted 06.29.2008 | Living

Read More: Change, Education, Work, Occupation, Activism, Awaken, Activist, Teaching, Wake Up, Living News
Rob Kall

Today, when filling in a registration form on a website, I realized I had a new occupation to list, that encompassed many of the others I've listed in...

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You Can't Call Yourself a Progressive Until You've Seen Pete Seeger and Majora Carter

Robert Greenwald | Posted 06.23.2008 | Media

Read More: Pete Seeger, Majora Carter, Bronx, Activism, New York City, This Brave Nation, Ssbx, Media News
Robert Greenwald

At 89, Pete Seeger is not only a reminder of our nation's history of turbulence and triumph, he is also an inspiration for our vibrant future.

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The Guantanamization of Immigrant Detention

Roberto Lovato | Posted 06.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Immigration, Esperanza, Global Migration, Sovereignty Issues, ICE Detention, Empire, BORDER ISSUES, ICE Abuse, Immigrant Detention, National Security, Latino Politics, ICE Detention Deaths, Activism, Night of 1000 Conversations, Hope, Race, Guantanamo and Detention, Politics News
Roberto Lovato

What makes Ahmed's story noteworthy is that it reflects how many of these torturous practices are now being perpetrated against detainees held within the borders of the US.

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Smaller Packaging Equals Hidden Eco-Costs

Treehugger.com | Christine Lepisto | Posted 06.17.2008 | Green

Read More: Economic Slowdown, Efficiency, High Food Prices, Activism, Packaging, Business, Recession, Green News

Are Producers Helping You to Stay on Budget? USA Today recently headlined a shocking review of the big name food companies that are trying to beat r...

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Don't Miss Anthony Romero and Ava Lowery in This Brave Nation Episode 3

Robert Greenwald | Posted 06.16.2008 | Media

Read More: Aclu, Civil Liberties, Courage, Brave Nation, Activism, Anthony Romero, Ava Lowery, Peace, This, Media News
Robert Greenwald

This Brave Nation, a documentary series that brings progressive activists and thinkers together in one place -- your computer screen!

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Ava Lowery on Fear and Optimism

Erikka Yancy | Posted 06.13.2008 | Media

Read More: Aclu, Civil Liberties, Fear, Courage, Activism, This Brave Nation, Optimism, Anthony Romero, Ava Lowery, Peace, Media News
Erikka Yancy

While many others and I sat watching bombs exploding over Baghdad on March 20, 2003 with tears in our eyes, Ava was creating videos and speaking out against an illegal war.

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Then and NOW

Paula Gordon | Posted 06.13.2008 | Green

Read More: Environment, Stuart Kauffman, Life on Earth, Adjacent Possible, Activism, Climate Change, Oberlin, Green News
Paula Gordon

"Activism, Then and Now" lured me back to my college reunion. "Then"? The Sixties: Civil Rights, Vietnam, Environmental and Women's movements, in lo...

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Major Victory for Indigenous Rights and Old Growth Forests

Michael Brune | Posted 06.09.2008 | Living

Read More: Logging, Canada, Indigenous Rights, Activism, Forests, First Nations, Ontario, Land Battles, Native Americans, The Grassy Narrow, Living News
Michael Brune

Mention Native peoples being forced off their lands and most Americans think of their high school history books. But battles over Indigenous land rights continue to this day, even right here in North America.

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Mildred Loving: the Accidental Activist

Arlene M. Roberts | Posted 05.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: Todd Gitlin, Mildred Loving, Letters to a Young Activist, Earl Warren, Aclu, Racial Integrity Act, Activism, Politics News
Arlene M. Roberts

As a first year law student, I was introduced to Mildred Loving by way of Loving v. Virginia, a case that appeared in my Constitutional Law casebook. ...

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Apathy Doesn't Live in the Bronx

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 05.23.2008 | Living

Read More: No Child Left Behind, Strike, Bronx, Unions, Activism, Protest, Students Protest No Child Left Behind, Standardized Testing, South Bronx Student Protest, Living News
Allison Kilkenny

Last Wednesday more than 160 students in the South Bronx refused to take another standardized test. They are sick of being dragged out of their classrooms to be treated as lab rats in the No Child Left Behind rotten matrix.

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Conviction in the Murder of Victor Jara -- 35 Years Late

Bob Harris | Posted 05.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Activism, Salvador Allende, Chile, Criminal Justice, Music, Victor Jara, Pinochet, Augusto Pinochet, Allende, Politics News
Bob Harris

Last week -- almost thirty-five years after the fact, and nearly two decades after the end of the dictatorship -- a Chilean court has found a retired colonel, Mario Manriquez Bravo, guilty in the murder of Victor Jara.

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Everything's Weird Until You Get Used to It

Steven Crandell | Posted 05.12.2008 | Living

Read More: Ben Cohen, Bonnie Raitt, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Disarmament, Mother's Day, Daniel Ellsberg, Peace, Appeal to the Next President of the United States, Nuclear Weapons, Activism, Susan Sarandon, Walter Cronkite, Environment, Jackson Browne, US Leadership for a Nuclear Weapons-Free World, Petition, Parents, Living News
Steven Crandell

Change is essential to save our planet. And we need to get over our resistance to the "weirdness" of doing things differently.

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Captured: New Film About NYC Activist

Jan Herman | Posted 05.09.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Clayton Patterson, Activism, Lower East Side, Movies, Captured, Entertainment News
Jan Herman

The irrepressible and irreplaceable Clayton Patterson who recorded the infamous Tompkins Square "police riot" of 1988 on videotape is the subject of a new documentary.

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May Day! May Day! Hijackings of the 4th Estate

Paige Donner | Posted 05.07.2008 | Media

Read More: Time Magazine, Brigitte Bardot, Animal Rights, Activism, 4th Estate, Freedom of Speech, Animal Slaughter, Cnn, Journalism, Defense, Seattle Times, Muckraker, Justice, Truth, Hijackings, Npr, Yong Tangyan, Valerie Plame, Immigration, May Day, Civil Liberties, Internal Affairs, Lapd, PEN Award, Aclu, Committee to ProtectJournalists, Media News
Paige Donner

The title of this piece, Hijackings of the 4th Estate, is purposefully provocative. For any journalist, Blogger or otherwise muckraker laboring in ser...

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Activism Made Easy: Choosing UPS

Carine Fabius | Posted 04.27.2008 | Living

Read More: Wal-Mart, Evil Empire, Activism, Federal Express, Living News
Carine Fabius

When one Fed Ex driver asked for time off for chemotherapy treatments, they fired her, even though she had worked there ten years.

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Bush, Calderon Plot Economic and Military Integration at NOLA Summit

Roberto Lovato | Posted 04.22.2008 | Home

Read More: HEMISPHERIC AFFAIRS, Immigration, New Orleans Summite, Media, Regional Integratio, Sovereignty Issues, Calderon and Free Trade, Sovereignty, Central America, Empire, Nafta, BORDER ISSUES, Plan Colombia, Of African AméRica, Free Trade and NAFTA, Three Amigos Summit, National Security, Latino Politics, U.S.-Mexico Relations, Spp, Activism, Labor, Environment, Race, Calderon and Bush, Home News
Roberto Lovato

At the center of today's "Three Amigos" Summit in New Orleans between George W. Bush and his homologues, Mexico's Felipe Calderon and Stephen Harper o...

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Sam Stein

Clinton Camp Won't Say How Hillary Disagrees With MoveOn

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 04.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: Hillary MoveOn Intimidation, Clinton Caucus, Wolfson Stonewalls, Hillary Clinton 2008, Activism, Hillary Maligns MoveOn, Hillary MoveOn, 2008 Election, Hillary Caucuses, Caucus, Hillary MoveOn Caucuses, Corn Weather Underground, Wolfson Corn, Clinton MoveOn.Org, Hillary Democratic Activists, Hillary MoveOn.Org, Wolfson Moveon, Hillary Clinton, Hillary MoveOn Controversy, Clinton MoveOn, Anti-War Movement, Hillary Activists, Politics News

There was a significant dose of stonewalling on Monday's conference call with aides to Sen. Hillary Clinton. Asked to explain what areas of disagreem...

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Clinton Slams Democratic Activists At Private Fundraiser

Celeste Fremon | Posted 04.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Caucus, Hillary on MoveOn on Tape, MoveOn.Org Afghanistan, Hillary MoveOn, MoveOn Dominate Caucuses, Hillary MoveOn.Org, Hillary on Democratic Activists on Tape, Hillary MoveOn Controversy, Hillary Caucuses, MoveOn National Security, Moveon, MoveOn Intimidate Caucusgoers, Activism, MoveOn Afghanistan, Hillary Activists, Hillary Democratic Activists, MoveOn Foreign Policy, MoveOn.Org, Hillary Clinton 2008, Hillary MoveOn Intimidation, MoveOn Obama, 2008 Election, Clinton MoveOn.Org, Hillary MoveOn Caucuses, Anti-War Movement, Hillary Maligns MoveOn, Moveon Petraeus, Hillary Clinton, Clinton Caucus, Clinton MoveOn, Politics News
Celeste Fremon

At a small closed-door fundraiser after Super Tuesday, Sen. Hillary Clinton blamed what she called the "activist base" of the Democratic Party -- and ...

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What You Might Not Know About the Constitution

Mike Stark | Posted 04.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Constitution, Race, Law, Activism, Toni Morrison, Constitutional Amendment, Slavery, Racism, Obama Race, OJ Simpson, Rodney King, Politics News
Mike Stark

Our nation's charter -- The Constitution of the United States -- to this day contains unstricken text that established the legal framework for slavery.

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In Response: Western Activism Helps Tibet

Matt Browner Hamlin | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: China, Activism, Tibet, Politics News
Matt Browner Hamlin

We are facing a moment where what is needed is more activism, not less; a greater sense of how to promote human rights, not a diminished drive to improve the world.

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