Activist News

  • Taking on anti-abortion lies

    Seattle Clinic Defense picketed a talk by a right-wing physician who aimed to spread lies about abortion and its impact.

  • Double standards at Berkeley

    UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau was quick to condemn a student senate vote calling for divestment from Israeli apartheid.

  • Austin rallies for immigrants

    Some 350 people marched in the Texas capital of Austin to demand immigrants rights, including an end to deportations.

  • Raleigh stands up to the cuts

    A May Day demonstration in Raleigh brought out students and other activists to fight austerity and attacks on labor.

  • A May Day call for our rights

    Immigrants right supporters joined labor activists in cities across the country to celebrate the working-class holiday.

  • Fighting to save Poindexter

    Ohio activists are mounting a challenge against the gentrification of the historic community of Poindexter Village.

  • You can't just take our school

    Parents, students and community members held a rally at a Chicago elementary school to take a stand against closures.

  • Resisting the Common Core

    In New York state, teachers, parents and students are beginning to organize against the standardized testing agenda.

  • Over-tested and fed up

    Nearly 100 Chicago students walked out of high schools to protest the state-mandated Prairie State Achievement Exam.

  • In charge of cracking down

    Nikos Dendias, the Greek Minister of Public Order and Citizen Protection, was met with protests when he spoke in New York.

  • Standing for those who can't

    Activists at the University of California Berkeley gathered for a solidarity protest on Palestinian Prisoners Day.

  • Playing for schools we want

    Parents, teachers and educators went to CPS headquarters for a different kind of protest--to blow bubbles, dress up and play.

  • The fire this time at Purdue

    About 200 students and faculty at Purdue University marched through campus in response to a string of racist incidents.

  • A step toward justice at UC

    The Student Senate at the University of California Berkeley has voted to call for divestment from Israeli apartheid.

  • Taking our kids' futures away

    Parents, teachers and students marched through Chicago's Southwest Side to illustrate the impact of one school closing.

  • Seattle against drone warfare

    More than 100 people demonstrated in Seattle as part of a week of action against the U.S. government's drone wars.

  • Continuing a fight for Derek

    Friends and family of Derek Williams, who died in the custody of Milwaukee police, joined activists for a rally to demand justice.

  • No to youth criminalization

    Some 300 Detroit students came together to protest the ramping up of criminalization of youth in public schools.

  • Standing up to Drone Diego

    San Diego antiwar activists held a series of events in early April as part of a national mobilization against the drone wars.

  • Ohio invests in apartheid

    Ohio purchased $42 million in Israel bonds in early March, the largest single government purchase of such bonds to date.

  • No closures without a fight

    Thousands of Chicagoans filled Daley Plaza to send a message of resistance to Rahm Emanuel and public school officials.

  • We, the students, have had it

    A new coalition of Chicago students against school closures held an action during spring break to target Mayor Rahm Emanuel.

  • We stand with Jane Doe

    Women's rights supporters in Chicago organized a speak-out in solidarity with the young woman raped in Steubenville.

  • We'll defend Chicago schools

    An activist explains that Chicagoans have a message for Rahm Emanuel: We won't allow him to destroy our schools.

  • A prison is a prison

    The End the New Jim Crow Action Network answers critics of its statement in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for liberation.