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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In the Face of Shell's Arctic Drilling Plans, Seattle Activists Speak Out
When the Port of Seattle offered Royal Dutch Shell a home port for its Arctic drilling fleet, it didn't take long for climate justice to become the rallying cry.
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Exclusive: Two Years After Snowden Revelations, Glenn Greenwald Talks About Impacts on Surveillance State
"Defeatism is never warranted. There are always ways individuals can tap the power within themselves to confront injustices.”
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A "Movement Moment" Is Happening On Campus As Student Activism Surges Nationwide
Fueled in part by growing inequality, tensions between universities and the public they're supposed to serve have resulted in a new era of burgeoning student unrest.
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Bankers from Major Institutions Still Haven't Been Held Responsible for Financial Crash
In the seven years since the financial crisis, none of the top executives at the Wall Street banks that fueled and profited from the housing bubble have been held to account – even as their companies admitted wrongdoing and paid billions in fines.
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Here’s How Much Corporations Paid U.S. Senators To Fast-Track the TPP Bill
As Congress hotly debates the biggest trade deal in a generation, its backers have turned on the cash spigot in the hopes of getting it passed.
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The College Bureaucracy: How Education Forgot the Students and Became A Business
University bureaucracies are furthering the neo-liberalization of education, which is now viewed as a business.
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Senators Come Out Swinging for Debt-Free College As 2016 Campaign Issue Builds Steam
On Wednesday, nine Democratic senators came out in support of a resolution to make four-year public colleges in the U.S. debt-free.
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More Top Heavy Than Ever: The One Percent of the One Percent
One lesson of the 2014 election cycle: More money came from fewer people.
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EPA Issues Sweeping Rules Protecting America's Drinking Water, Streams and Wetlands
Drinking water for 117 million Americans will be protected under new rules shielding small streams, tributaries and wetlands from pollution and development.
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Anti-Corruption Activists Join Occupy.com In Seattle June 4th - Calling for Citizen Empowerment
On June 4, two of the nation’s leading voices against political corruption, Lawrence Lessig and Marianne Williamson, will join Occupy.com's screening of "Killswitch" in a call for sweeping citizen action to root money out of politics in 2016.
