Activist News : Adam Balogh The family of Alan Blueford is demanding justice after the Oakland police gunned down the unarmed teenager.
May 16, 2012 Opponents of anti-LGBT violence are speaking out following the shooting death of Brandy Martell in Oakland, Caif.
May 16, 2012 : Eric Kerl More than 800 activists came together for the People's Summit to kick off a week of anti-NATO events in Chicago.
May 15, 2012 Three actions during Mother's Day weekend highlighted the pain mothers endure when the NYPD brutalizes their children.
May 15, 2012 : Jamie Partridge Portland activists who are organizing to keep Alicia Jackson in her home hope they have chalked up another victory.
May 14, 2012 Some 75 pro-choice protesters picketed a lecture titled, "Do women have too many rights?" at the University of Washington.
May 14, 2012 : Jamie Partridge Alicia Jackson moved back into her home in Portland, Ore., on May Day--and Occupy Northeast vows she won't be the last.
May 10, 2012 Residents of the Hollis neighborhood in Queens organized a forum and protest march around the issue of affordable housing.
May 9, 2012 Solidarity activists at the University of North Texas built a mock "apartheid wall" as a protest against "Israel Fair."
May 9, 2012 : Alan Peck A judge has stopped the trial of the Equality 9--San Diego protesters arrested during a 2010 sit-in for same-sex marriage.
May 7, 2012 More than 1,000 people attended a protest against the Wells Fargo shareholders meeting in San Francisco.
May 7, 2012 May Day, the international workers' holiday that started in the U.S. 126 years ago, was marked by actions around the U.S.
May 3, 2012 Bay Area activist Fly Benzo was unjustly convicted and sentenced to a suspended jail term, probation and fines.
May 2, 2012 Scores of men and women gathered in Orlando, Fla., for a demonstration in defense of women's right to choose
May 2, 2012 : Joe Allen Relatives of police brutality victims were joined by activists for an emotion-filled press conference in Chicago's City Hall.
May 1, 2012 Temple University students and their allies demonstrated against a conference featuring several notorious Islamophobes.
April 30, 2012 Some 300 people gathered outside of the Department of Justice on Mumia Abu-Jamal's birthday to protest his incarceration.
April 30, 2012 Occupy Wall Street activists held vibrant actions in New York City to reclaim Earth Day from the corporate greenwashers.
April 26, 2012 : Alex Schmaus Activists are mobilizing to send a message that we stand with a Bay Area activist as he faces sentencing for speaking out.
April 26, 2012 In a victory for supporters of abortion rights, a proposed fetal "personhood" bill went down to defeat in Oklahoma.
April 24, 2012 : Michael Brown Activists are linking Kendrec McDade's killing with Trayvon Martin's--and focusing on the issue of racist police brutality.
April 23, 2012 Legislators and corporate officials sauntered past 40 protesters on their way to a dinner in the Oklahoma governor's mansion.
April 23, 2012 : Brian Bean Patients and workers are taking action against budget cuts that will close half of the city's mental health clinics.
April 18, 2012 An electric public forum in Chicago connected the case of Trayvon Martin with local struggles for victims of police brutality.
April 18, 2012 Iowa activists picketed the home of the Wells Fargo Home Mortgage president ahead of the bank's shareholder meeting.
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