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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Fighting Terminal Illness in Longview, Wash., Anti-Coal Activists Step Up The Campaign
With U.S. coal corporations looking overseas, the stage is set for a clash over access to the Pacific Coast — a conflict now playing out in the public scope hearings over the Millennium Bulk Terminal.
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Spain Reports NSA Tracked 60 Million Phone Calls In a Month
The Spanish newspaper El Mundo reproduced a graphic illustrating that the NSA spied on tens of millions of phone calls in the country late last year, widening the net of European nations and leaders under heavy U.S. surveillance.
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"Real Food Challenge" Sweeps Universities As Students Demand Healthy Policies
Some 140,000 students participated nationwide in more than 450 campus Food Day events last week, pushing for more community-farmed, ecologically sound food buying practices at their schools — and impacting university policies as a result.
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Police "War Games" And Weapons Expo Brings Global Militarized Elite to Oakland
At the 7th annual “Urban Shield” event held in Oakland, law enforcement officials from across America and the world could browse and purchase a plethora of military weapons, from the latest in munitions to armored cars and drones.
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The Black Panther Past Reborn
The Panthers, who celebrated a reunion in northern California, have no blueprint for protest except to preserve their own history and to encourage today's young people. Their unfolding story of rebellion, resistance and revolution continues.
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EXPOSED: U.K. FRACKERS REPLICATE U.S. FRACKING INDUSTRY'S LIES AND MISINFORMATION
The oil and gas industry, along with stealth PR handlers, touted Britain's fracking future at last week's U.K. Shale Gas Environmental Summit in London — taking a page from American industry's playbook by sowing scientific doubt about the risks of fracking.
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Hedges: Our Invisible Revolution
It appears that political ferment is dormant in the United States. This is incorrect. The battle of ideas is percolating below the surface.
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Thousands March on Washington Demanding End to Surveillance
Masses of protesters aligned with the coalition Stop Watching Us assembled on the 12th anniversary of the Patriot Act to urge Congress to reform the legal framework that supports the government's secretive online data gathering network.
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The Man Who Stood Up to the Koch Brothers — and Won
Public-interest advocate and Democratic candidate for California Secretary of State Derek Cressman filed a complaint requiring conservative political committees to disclose their donors, resulting in $16 million in penalties including against the Kochs.
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Students Occupy Sofia University Calling for Fair and Transparent Elections
Students at Bulgaria's Sofia University are occupying the entire central building of the school and vow to remain until the resignation of the country's Prime Minister Plamen Oresharski, the dissolution of Parliament and the calling of new elections.
