The burgeoning pro-democracy, anti-Trump movement known as 50501 expects to drive tens and possibly hundreds of thousands to protest in 1,000 cities and towns on Saturday.
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Beyond Extreme Energy: A Week Of Direct Action To Retire Fossil Fuels
We the people must supplement our turnout at the polls with our turnout on the streets, and in the media, in the name of our future on this planet.
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Exposed: Britain's “Any Substance” Law Bars Landowners From Opposing Fracking
The nationwide proposal will make it legal for fracking companies to drill 300 meters beneath private land without requiring the permission of landowners.
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Occupy Democracy In London Isn't Considered Newsworthy – But Should Be
Sleeping outside for an iPhone is O.K., but do it in furtherance of democratic expression and you’re in trouble, as protesters discovered during the past several weeks at Parliament Square.
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What Shade of Green: The Spectrum of Planetary Movement
Green is no longer unified, if it ever really was – as Bright Green, Lite Green, Deep Green and Dark Green tribes form around divergent environmental worldviews, theories of change, and ranges of tactics.
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Midterms Prediction: Billionaires to Retain Control of Government
This is satire. But sadly, it's also true.
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On Ballots Next Tuesday, How Many States and Counties Will Say No to GMO's?
Do we or do we not as Americans have the right to know what we are eating? Here are initiatives from Hawaii to Colorado and from Humboldt to Josephine Counties to take back our food supply.
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The Shackles Return: Why Debtors’ Prisons Are Making An American Comeback
In order to help fund their courts, judges may be threatening people with imprisonment for their debts – and more than a third of U.S. states now allow people with debts to be jailed.
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Jim Crow Returns: Millions of Minority Voters Threatened By Electoral Purge
This in-depth investigation reveals how election officials in 27 states, most of them Republicans, launched a program that threatens a massive purge of millions of voters from the rolls.
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Protesters in Hong Kong on Edge as Police Track Their Online Footprints
The pro-democracy movement has relied heavily on social media and messaging apps to mobilize protesters – and recent arrests from online activity has a "chilling effect" that "scares people away."
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Why Support the TPP When It Will Let Foreign Corporations Take Our Democracies To Court?
If a corporation’s profits or operations will be restricted by a country’s laws or the decisions of its courts, under the TPP it will be able to sue.
