PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, is certainly a polarizing crew. Their extreme and sometimes offensive animal rights protests make s...
Erik Ose | Posted 12.14.2009 | Books
Current Waldenbooks employees have come forward to alert the public that the company plans to dispose of many unsold books in the cheapest, easiest, least responsible way possible - by trashing them.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.11.2009 | Politics
In case you haven't heard, the latest spectacle that Tea Party protesters are planning is a massive performance art piece that will be coming soon to ...
Sara Schonhardt | Posted 12.09.2009 | World
Thousands of protestors gathered outside the presidential residence in Indonesia Wednesday to mark International Anti-Corruption Day by rallying against a series of recent scandals that prove graft is still alive and well in Indonesia.
AP | By ALI AKBAR DAREINI | Posted 12.07.2009 | World
(AP) TEHRAN, Iran - Security forces and militiamen clashed with thousands of protesters shouting "death to the dictator" outside Tehran University on ...
Josh Shahryar | Posted 12.06.2009 | World
As Iranians prepare for protests, the Iranian government has tried to halt the flow of news out of the country. What they can't do, however, is stop thousands supporters from spreading the news via Twitter, Facebook, blogs, MySpace and YouTube.
Wall Street Journal | Posted 12.04.2009 | World
In recent months, Iran has been conducting a campaign of harassing and intimidating members of its diaspora world-wide -- not just prominent dissident...
nydailynews.com | By Mark Lebetkin and Katie Nelson | Posted 12.02.2009 | New York
World AIDS Day was marked in the city Tuesday with advocacy, arrests and sobering statistics. Officials said at least 104,234 New Yorkers are living w...
Adam Elkus | Posted 11.13.2009 | World
Networked social movements are still in a immature stage. But as information campaigners grow more experienced, skilled, and above all else pragmatic the quality of digital campaigns is sure to improve.
Posted 11.13.2009 | Media
Fox News' Sean Hannity responded to Jon Stewart Wednesday evening after the Daily Show host called out the network for using old footage from a larger...
AP | Posted 11.07.2009 | World
TEHRAN, Iran — Iranian authorities have released three journalists who were among more than 100 people arrested during pro-government and opposi...
New York Times | ANDREW C. REVKIN | Posted 10.25.2009 | Green
Campaigners against global warming have drawn on an arsenal of visually startling tactics over the years, from posing nude on a Swiss glacier to scali...
Jason Salzman | Posted 10.21.2009 | Denver
It might have been smarter for the media-crazed Heene to have simply threatened to send a puppy up in his balloon, and you can bet he'd have gotten a lot of media attention.
The Guardian | Ian Cobain | Posted 10.20.2009 | World
A British mining corporation is facing a multimillion-pound claim for damages after protesters were detained and allegedly tortured at an opencast cop...
AP | Posted 10.16.2009 | New York
NEW YORK — New York City police say 14 demonstrators were arrested on criminal trespass charges during a sit-in inside a midtown Manhattan build...
Bob Cesca | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics
The president likes to say, "If you like the health insurance you have now..." The problem is that much like your utter lack of financial security, the health insurance you have now... sucks.
Jeanine Molloff | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics
"Am I calling for an armed insurrection? Hardly, and only because I don't think it's possible or probable that an armed revolution would be successful..." said Sheehan.
AP | MARK STEVENSON | Posted 11.28.2009 | World
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — The coup-installed president of Honduras backed down Monday from an escalating standoff with protesters and suggested he...
Michelle Pilecki | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics
There's more inanity going on in Pittsburgh on the Post-Gazette's site, or any "news" outlet that likes to showcase violence than there is on the ground.
Linda Milazzo | Posted 11.21.2009 | Media
In response to Fox's childish and embarrassing ad in the Washington Post that challenged competitors' coverage of the 9/12 teabaggers, CNN is airing this equally chilidish and embarrassing ad.
Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics
President Obama, in an interview with the Toledo Blade, cautions would-be protesters of the upcoming G20 Summit that while such protests are "are a si...
Michelle Pilecki | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics
The anarchists in my neighborhood -- just about four straight, uphill miles from the site of the G-20 summit meeting -- have set up shop. And they have made many of us nervous.
Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 11.18.2009 | World
Today a long time tradition of the Islamic Republic of Iran was transformed into nationwide mass protests against the government.
Bill Maher | Posted 11.11.2009 | Comedy
Here's the thing: Muhammad Ali also had a way with words, but it helped enormously that he could also punch guys in the face.
Salam Al Marayati | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics
To divert planes and stop people from entering the United States because they disagree with our government policies undermines the principles underpinning our open society.
Posted 12.16.2009 | Green