Activist News

  • Solidarity against Prop 8

    More than 10,000 people gathered in New York City to demonstrate against the same-sex marriage ban in California.

  • Bronx residents raise grievances

    More than 100 South Bronx residents attended a public meeting to discuss issues like funding for public housing and environmental justice.

  • Racial profiling in Palo Alto

    Some 200 people marched from East Palo Alto to the Palo Alto city hall to demand an end to racial profiling by police.

  • Keep our rec centers open

    City workers and residents of San Diego's City Heights neighborhood gathered to protest the mayor's plan to close libraries and recreation centers.

  • Defend Woodside day laborers

    In response to the arrest of 10 day laborers in Woodside, N.Y., the No Raids Committee of Queens turned out to protest.

  • Anger builds over Prop 8

    A protest called over the Internet swelled to more than 20,000 people in San Francisco showing their bitter opposition to the anti-gay Proposition 8.

  • Protesting the Texas death penalty

    This year’s March to Stop Executions in Texas attracted activists from around the state, including a large number of prisoners' family members.

  • Uniting against racist hate at UC

    Antiracist activists at the University of Cincinnati are preparing to protest an event featuring Islamophobe Nonie Darwish on November 13.

  • Overflow crowd protests Seattle budget cuts

    Providers and recipients of Seattle's social services came out in full force to oppose budget cuts proposed by Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels.

  • Thousands march to protest Prop 8

    Thousands of supporters of equal marriage rights flooded the streets of San Diego's Hillcrest neighborhood in defense of gay marriage.

  • Winter Soldier in Baltimore

    Some 120 people turned out to hear the testimonies of soldiers and veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars at Winter Soldier hearings in Baltimore.

  • RIT Antiwar protests recruiters

    A counter-recruitment action at the Rochester Institute of Technology led to Marine recruiters packing up and leaving ahead of schedule.

  • ICE treats immigrants like criminals

    Bay Area groups organized an emergency rally to protest a string of Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids the day before.

  • No money for war profiteers

    More than 200 students and community members attended a rally to protest the University of Vermont's investment in war profiteers, military contractors and mercenary firms.

  • Antiwar vets testify in Portland

    Winter Soldier hearings, featuring the testimony of veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, turned out 300 people on October 18 in Portland.

  • Winter Soldier in Madison

    About 300 people gathered for the Madison Winter Soldier event organized by the local chapter of Iraq Veterans Against the War.

  • Rallying in S.F. against ICE raids

    Some 200 people rallied October 12 to demand an end to the raids that have been terrorizing immigrant communities.

  • Antiwar vets attacked by police outside debate

    Police outside the last presidential debate at Hofstra University used their horses and batons to make sure the voices of antiwar veterans weren't heard.

  • Antiwar students discuss the struggle

    More than 170 students gathered at the 2008 Campus Antiwar Network national conference to discuss the way forward for the movement.

  • Protests mark date of Iraq war vote

    Antiwar activists turned out October 11 to mark the sixth anniversary of the vote authorizing the invasion of Iraq.

  • Superintendent of spies

    The former head of the Maryland State Police appeared before a state senate committee to justify an operation to spy on political activists.

  • Boston activists protest at banks

    A demonstration at Harvard Square's Bank of America took up a broad range of issues as activists angered by the Wall Street bailout joined in the protest.

  • Winter Soldier heads to the northeast

    Activists are taking the testimonies of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans on the road with a series of Winter Soldier events in several cities.

  • SF activists protest the Minutemen

    Immigrants rights activists clashed with the Minutemen vigilantes when they protested San Francisco’s sanctuary city status.

  • Organizing against the injustice system

    Some 1,500 people turned out to the recent Critical Resistance conference to discuss how to abolish the prison-industrial complex.