Activist News

A group of 30 Michigan State University students and faculty picketed the state capitol October 30 to combat recent budget cuts and tuition hikes. November 5, 2009

Some 400 activists marched in Portland for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender equal rights and to protest anti-gay violence. November 3, 2009

University of North Texas activists marched to demand that same-sex couples be allowed to participate in the Homecoming Court. November 3, 2009

Following the killing of Kiwane Carrington by a police officer, the Champaign, Ill., community has found ways to express its outrage. November 3, 2009

More than 200 people came to the budget hearing of the Seattle City Council to oppose the mayor's plans for huge spending cuts. October 28, 2009

A victory in approving Referendum 71 would give a boost of confidence to pro-LGBT forces and demoralize the right-wing bigots. October 26, 2009

More than 100 people turned out at San Francisco State University for a General Assembly to discuss advancing the fight against budget cuts. October 26, 2009

LGBT activists marched on the Rhode Island statehouse days after Gov. Donald Carcieri delivered an address to a right-wing antigay group. October 22, 2009

Activists gathered for a vigil to support Fahad Hashmi, who has been imprisoned for over two years as part of the "war on terror." October 22, 2009

City College of San Francisco administrators have no answers to stop cuts and fee hikes, but one activist coalition is working to get organized. October 21, 2009

Some 60 people attended an all-day conference at San Diego City College to discuss organizing for immigrant rights. October 21, 2009

An all-too-familiar scene unfolded in Roxbury, Mass., when foreclosures left multiple families homeless. But activists aren't surrendering. October 20, 2009

More than 100 activists rallied for single-payer health care outside the Portland building of Regence Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Oregon. October 20, 2009

Bay Area Rapid Transit officer Johannes Mehserle--who killed Oscar Grant III early on New Year's Day--has won a legal victory. October 20, 2009

When residents in Denton, Texas, found out that natural gas drilling was going to begin in their neighborhood, they got organized. October 16, 2009

Around 150 students took over the Anthropology Library at the University of California-Berkeley on October 9 to protest budget cuts. October 15, 2009

Rochester Students for a Democratic Society’s “Funk the War 2” was brutally attacked by police on October 7. October 12, 2009

More than 100 activists gathered on October 6 to demand that the trial Officer Johannes Mehserle remain in Alameda County. October 12, 2009

More than 70 activists congregated in Lampron Park in Northampton, Mass., for the New England Trans United March. October 12, 2009

Health care activists in New York City sat in at insurance giant Aetna as part of a day of action for single-payer health care. October 8, 2009

More than 200 activists rallied in response to a demonstration in Minneapolis by members of a neo-Nazi group. October 8, 2009

Activists gathered in San Francisco to elect delegates to a committee that will coordinate efforts to repeal Proposition 8 in 2010. October 8, 2009

Students from campuses across the country are getting on buses to head to Washington for the National Equality March. October 7, 2009

A summit meeting of the G20 was met by an outpouring of challenges and protests by activists from a broad range of movements. October 7, 2009

A week after the crackdown on protest at the Group of 20 summit, activists and supporters of free speech rallied to defend their rights. October 5, 2009