Activist News The student government at UMass Amherst passed a resolution calling for divestment from companies that profit from war.
April 2, 2009 : Bryan Hannah Two members of Iraq Veterans Against the War may have stopped the war profiteer KBR from getting a road contract in Texas.
March 30, 2009 About 300 LGBT youth and allies gathered in downtown Los Angeles for a march against homophobia and for marriage equality.
March 26, 2009 The "Live from Death Row" national speaking tour has made more than a dozen stops across the country in building opposition to the death penalty.
March 25, 2009 A 21-year-old Chicago college student who has spent the majority of his life in the U.S. is facing deportation following a traffic stop.
March 24, 2009 Thousands of students and faculty from colleges all over California gathered at the State Capitol building on March 16 to protest education cuts.
March 24, 2009 Some 200 people demonstrated outside Barack Obama's March 17 regional health care summit at the University of Vermont.
March 24, 2009 Marking the sixth year of the Iraq war, more than 1,000 people came out in Chicago to raise their voices on a range of issues.
March 20, 2009 Hundreds of students from five downtown Los Angeles high schools walked out of class to protest teacher layoffs.
March 20, 2009 Hundreds of San Francisco college students defied police in a march against planned cuts to the state education budget.
March 18, 2009 Citizens of a second town in Maine have voted to keep Nestle from exploiting its groundwater resources for profit.
March 18, 2009 : Brian Tierney Some 5,000 demonstrators descended on the city of Phoenix in a mass mobilization against Joe Arpaio, the anti-immigrant sheriff of Maricopa County.
March 13, 2009 Students delivered a letter to the University of Southern California's president demanding scholarships for Palestinian students.
March 13, 2009 Around 150 anti-racist students and community members confronted a conservative speaker at the University of Massachusetts.
March 13, 2009 Palestinian rights activists turned out to counter a pro-Israel rally called by the Student Alliance for Israel in the Amherst Common.
March 11, 2009 The horrors of Israel's war on Gaza were brought home to Rochester at a meeting featuring Ismail Mehr from the American Medical Mission to Gaza.
March 11, 2009 On the eve of court hearings on Proposition 8, hundreds marched in San Francisco and Los Angeles to call for the ban on same-sex marriage to be overturned.
March 9, 2009 Pro-Palestinian activists at Columbia University kicked off their campaign for divestment from Israel with a teach-in and speak-out.
March 9, 2009 More than 100 people turned out for a rally against ABC's racist reality TV show Homeland Security U.S.A.
March 9, 2009 Hundreds of LGBT people and their allies held a candlelight vigil and march to stand up against an increase in anti-LGBT hate crimes.
March 6, 2009 Activists in Rochester mobilized on 24 hours’ notice to confront anti-choice protesters at a local abortion clinic.
March 6, 2009 Hundreds of San Francisco State University students attended a teach-in to address the effects of California budget cuts.
March 6, 2009 : Tim Harris Activists are coming together to protest the city of Seattle's plan to construct a new jail at a cost of $200 million--at the same time budget cuts are taking a toll.
March 6, 2009 : Devin Cohee Our comrade Devin Cohee--a loving friend, driven activist and unyielding revolutionary--died tragically on February 28.
March 5, 2009 When Metropolitan Transportation Authority officials held hearings on proposed fare increases and budget cuts, they faced large and angry crowds.
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