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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Meet the Muslim-American Leaders the FBI and NSA Have Been Spying On
In the place where the target’s real name would go, the memo offers a fake name as a placeholder: “Mohammed Raghead.”
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Toying With Climate: Greenpeace Launches Protests to Rid Shell Oil Branding from Legos
The joint Shell/Lego relationship – which involves some 16 million Lego Ferrari-branded toy cars being distributed to kids at Shell stations around the world – is worth about $116 million.
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North Carolina Protesters Call to End the Worst Voting Law Since Jim Crow
Activists with the Moral Monday movement rallied outside a packed courthouse in Winston-Salem to demand voting rights for all.
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U.S. Military Studied How to Influence Twitter Users – By Focusing on Occupy Protests
Papers leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden indicate that U.S. and British intelligence have been deeply engaged in planning ways to covertly use social media for propaganda and deception.
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The Kellogg Boycott: Voting With Our Dollars To Rid Cereals of GMO's
We speak collectively to force food manufacturers to come clean with the ingredients they use in their products - and if they won’t remove GMOs, we will boycott them until they do.
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Earth Institute Issues U.N. First-of-a-Kind Roadmap to Avoid Climate Catastrophe
The report prescribes concrete actions the world's biggest 15 economies must take to keep warming below two degrees Celsius.
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From Dallas to Seattle, From Taos to New York: Citizens Say Get Money Out of Politics
The Rolling Rebellion is now halfway through its one-week debut and has a lot to show for it – from coast to coast, activists have taken their creative zeal to the streets in a myriad of ways.
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Are You Kidding – Chevron’s Lobbyist Now Runs the Congressional Science Committee?
As CEO of Dow Lohnes Government Strategies, a lobbying firm retained by Chevron to influence Congress, Stephen Sayle was paid $500,000 before taking his current gig atop the House Science Committee.
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Ahead of the Looming Foreclosure Crisis, Local Governments Are Stepping In
The glut of underwater mortgages needs to be written down to match underlying assets, not just to help homeowners but to revive the economy.
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Anonymous Threatens #OpCisa Disruption If Lawmakers Pursue Cybersecurity Bill
Like the civil liberties-thwarting CISPA bill, the new Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act would allow the federal government to share information perceived as “cyber threats” with private companies.
