Hundreds of Professors At University of Chicago Push For Fossil Fuel Divestment

In a symbolic show of solidarity with student activists, professors urged the elite private university to purge its $7.6 billion endowment of coal, oil and gas companies, citing the “universal and existential” threat posed by climate change.

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Unjust Punishment: Will 13 Climate Activists Face Jail Time For Heathrow Protest?

Mel Strickland and a dozen other activists cut through a security fence at London's Heathrow Airport last July and occupied one of the runways for six hours in an effort to slow the ravages of climate change.

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Doctors Be Damned: Unfair Health Contract Sparks Exodus of UK Medical Professionals

The government's new contract is "a deliberate process to undermine, fragment and cheapen the entire workforce and enable a transition to a U.S.-style, insurance based system – which is less fair and is not cheaper, far from it."

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Bernie Sanders Is A Candidate For, Not Of, Today’s Movements

Bernie's success thus far is a sign of what a sizable chunk of America is ready for, electorally speaking – democratic socialism – and it’s still hard to escape the feeling that he caught today’s social movements off guard.

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Take A Stand: We Cannot Outsource this Revolution

Now is the time for all of us, individually and collectively, to grab hold of the rope that is so frayed in our country’s collective consciousness.

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New UK Health Contract A Disaster: "I Can't Work For A Government That Clearly Despises Me"

Defying an unprecedented wave of strikes by the British medical establishment, the government announced last week that junior doctors must accept increased working hours, reduced pay and a removal of safeguards against overworking.

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Berning of America: When the Impossible Becomes Inevitable

What’s happening in America right now doesn’t come as a surprise to those who have been trying to shed light on so many social injustices our country is facing.

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UN Panel Calls On U.K. and Sweden to End Julian Assange's "Deprivation of Liberty"

The WikiLeaks founder has been arbitrarily detained by the U.K. and Sweden for more than five years and should be released immediately with compensation, according to a Geneva-based UN working group on arbitrary detention.

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Environmentalists and Indigenous People Flex New Muscle In Canada's Resource Wars

A major obstacle facing new oil transport projects is the strong resistance from Canada’s indigenous First Nations, who own or claim much of the land that the proposed pipelines would cross.

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What Role Were You Born To Play In Social Change?

Moyer, who became best known for identifying eight stages of successful social movements, called the Movement Action Plan, envisioned a proliferation of groups each maximizing their strength while supporting a broad movement unity.

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