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.
Read
Follow:
-
New California Law Requires Police to Get a Warrant Before Accessing Your Data
Under the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act, which Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law late last week, officers will have to convince a judge that there is enough probable cause to justify a digital data search.
-
Hundreds Of Thousands Protest In Berlin Against EU-U.S. Trade Deal
Up to a quarter of a million people marched in the German capital Saturday to protest the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, which they say is openly anti-democratic.
-
After Deadly Bomb Blasts In Turkish Capital, Thousands Take To Streets Blaming Government
A day after twin bombings targeted a peace rally in the capital Ankara, killing over 100 civilians, demonstrators and mourners put blame squarely on the government of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
-
In the Era of the Hunger Artist, We're Crowdfunding Just to Survive
Welcome to nightmare capitalism, survival-by-popularity, the real Hunger Games: where we're forced to go online and crowdfund our way to rent payments, child support, illness recovery and more.
-
Remembering Grace Lee Boggs and her Role in the Black Freedom Struggle
As the child of Chinese immigrants and as a woman, Grace learned early on that the world needed changing.
-
Citizen Activists Drive the Fight for Clean Water in Flint, Michigan
It’s not the government, but private citizens and researchers who have been battling to reveal dangerous lead levels.
-
Rebel City of the Commons, Part II
Rebel Cities are desirable as a form of disobedience that defy states, legal frameworks, supranations or markets.
-
Meet the Secretive Committees that Run the Global Economy
An overlapping and highly integrated network of institutions, committees and secret meetings of ad-hoc groups collectively make up the most powerful and informal political structure in the world.
-
Local Resistance Can Overthrow Our Political Masters
We will have to dismantle the corporate state, piece by piece, from the ground up – no leader or politician is going to do it for us.
-
"Inequality Is Not Inevitable": A New Plan to Fix the Rules Structuring Our System
Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz has led a report called "Rewriting the Rules of the American Economy," which seeks to simultaneously reform the financial sector and wrest power from the 1% while redistributing wealth to workers.
