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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More Than 100 Arrested As Climate Change Activists #FloodWallStreet
Thousands of protesters shut down blocks of Broadway in Lower Manhattan for hours on Monday in a demonstration that cast the blame for climate change squarely on Wall Street.
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Global Indigenous Groups Converge On New York to Demand Climate Action
Patricia Gualinga, a Kichwa woman from the Sarayaku community in the Ecuadorean Amazon, traveled more than 3,000 miles to push world leaders gathering at the United Nations.
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The Coming Climate Revolt: Why Today's Generation Must Take the Helm
The corporate elites will not veer from our path towards ecocide unless they are forced from power – and this means the beginning of a titanic clash between our corporate masters and ourselves.
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Raking In On Rents: The Housing Crisis Begins Anew
Americans need to say no now to this new scheme, lest we allow the past mortgage crisis to become a current rent fiasco.
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Five Ways Occupy Wall Street Is Making Inroads Across America
From defending homeowners against unlawful foreclosure to opposing skyrocketing student debt and bolstering the low wage workers movement, seeds planted by Occupy continue to spread and grow.
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Anti-Coal Campaigners Continue to Win in the Northwest
Coal transportation projects would see dozens of trains filled with Powder River Basin coal — one of the world’s largest deposits of the fuel — wind through hundreds of American communities every day.
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California Lawmakers Want to Limit Police Drones, but Activists Want Them Banned
California lawmakers just passed new limits on how police can use drones, but some argue that only legitimizes their use and that police shouldn't have them at all.
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The Wheel Turns, the Boat Rocks, the Sea Rises: Change in a Time of Climate Change
Rock the boat. Maybe the people in it will wake up and start rowing
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U.K. Report Shows Shocking Rise In Human Rights Violations
The 2014 Human Rights Risk Atlas reveals the extent that rural and indigenous workers globally are facing land grabs and displacement as civil rights get sacrificed for low-cost resources and labor.
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Heirs to Rockefeller oil fortune divest from fossil fuels over climate change
Heirs to the Standard Oil fortune join a campaign that will withdraw a total of $50 billion from fossil fuels, including from tar sands funds.