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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All 50 U.S. States Fail To Meet Global Police Use of Force Standards, Amnesty Reports
No state complies with international standards on the lethal use of force by law enforcement officers – and 13 states fall beneath even lower legal standards enshrined in U.S. constitutional law.
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How to Steal from Taxpayers While Blaming the Poor
It’s a vicious circle of hypocrisy: Americans dependent on the safety net are urged to “get a job” by the same free-market system that pays them too little to avoid being dependent on the safety net.
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People's Assembly and the Anti-Austerity Rebellion Seizing Britain
On Saturday, tens of thousands will march through London, Glasgow and across the U.K. to demand an end to austerity and increases in spending and investment.
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When Too Big To Fail Fails: The Scheme To Seize Depositors' Money
Unprosecuted, unreformed, unregulated and unrepentant, Wall Street parties on – and the money we thought was our own, protected in our checking and savings accounts, could be taken in an instant.
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Protest Is the New Terror: How U.S. Law Enforcement Is Working to Criminalize Dissent
While the recent NSA reform bill passed in Congress is a victory for civil liberties advocates, the fear of terrorism being openly exploited by law enforcement has allowed police to resurrect COINTELPRO in all but name.
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Six Pacific Island Countries Issue Declaration, Sue Big Oil For Disrupting Climate
We continue to experience the impacts of climate change – the single biggest human rights, environmental and humanitarian crisis of our time.
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Iceland Recovering Fastest in Europe After Jailing Bankers Instead of Bailing them Out
The island Nordic nation is on track to become the first European country that suffered in the financial meltdown to “surpass its pre-crisis peak of economic output” – proving to the U.S. that bailing out “too big to fail” banks wasn’t the way to go.
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Justice for All: Seattle's Kshama Sawant, Leader in Fight for $15, Talks About Movement's Next Steps
"All [working] people are latent activists. But to make them into activists they need to feel something deep in their hearts – in their gut. At the end of the day it is the tangible struggles that masses of people come out to fight."
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Black Tenants Say Greed and Discrimination At Play In Mass L.A. Eviction
They’re trying to clear out poor people to get higher-income people in there to jack up the rent, and it’s purely about greed and profit.
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Dozens Arrested as Kayaktavists Attempt to Prevent Shell Oil Rig Leaving Seattle
The protesters paddled out around 4 a.m. on Monday morning to try to stop the 400-foot-long rig from leaving for the Arctic.
