Activist News Some 200 people protested against proposed cuts at the City Universities of New York as CUNY's Board of Trustees voted on a budget.
December 16, 2008 A newly formed coalition at the University of Vermont is standing up to the administration's plan for deep budget cuts.
December 16, 2008 Supporters of equal marriage rights set December 10 as a "Day without a Gay" in the latest action to flow from the California gay marriage ban.
December 15, 2008 Over 80 people rallied outside a Providence, R.I., apartment building in a show of solidarity with three families facing eviction.
December 15, 2008 Some 50 people marched in Champaign, Ill., to call for the cleanup of toxic soil in a predominantly Black neighborhood.
December 11, 2008 Some 300 University of Washington students came together to confront anti-gay bigotry in the campus newspaper.
December 9, 2008 Members of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers are traveling the Northeast to talk about their struggle to stop modern-day slavery in the Florida fields.
December 9, 2008 Portland antiwar activists are calling for an ordinance that would make the city a sanctuary for military resisters.
December 8, 2008 Immigrant rights activists expressed a new spirit of confidence at a November forum at San Diego City College.
December 8, 2008 More than 300 protesters rallied outside of the office of the Hampshire County district attorney to call for justice for Jason Vassell.
December 5, 2008 In a victory for antiwar activists, the Nassau County prosecutors' office agreed to dismiss all charges against the Hempstead 15.
December 2, 2008 Activists held a vigil before the screening of the new movie Milk in support of the newly resurgent movement for gay rights.
December 2, 2008 Antiwar activists at Seattle Central Community College organized the first counter-recruitment protest at the school in over three years.
December 2, 2008 More than 20,000 people traveled to Georgia to commemorate those who have died at the hands of forces trained by the U.S. Army's School of the Americas.
December 1, 2008 Opponents of anti-Muslim racism at the University of Cincinnati challenged a speech by Islamophobe Nonie Darwish.
November 26, 2008 Activists gathered in Manhattan to continue calling attention to the racist murder of an Ecuadorian immigrant.
November 26, 2008 Some 150 activists confronted University of Washington officials to demand that the school refuse to renew its contract with Nike.
November 26, 2008 Nearly 150 people turned out in Times Square to voice their demand for national single-payer health care.
November 24, 2008 Students at UMass-Amherst came together to speak out against Islamophobia and an attack on an Ohio mosque.
November 24, 2008 Around 50 people demonstrated for LGBT rights at Cornell University, and another 250 rallied the week before in Ithaca.
November 24, 2008 Immigrant rights groups in Escondido, Calif., hosted a candlelight vigil to protest police use of driver's license checkpoints.
November 21, 2008 About 75 people attended the national convention of the Campaign to End the Death Penalty to discuss next steps in the struggle.
November 18, 2008 Students at South Puget Sound Community College staged a walkout against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
November 18, 2008 Activists rallied for 15 antiwar veterans and their supporters as they pled "not guilty" to charges stemming from a protest outside a presidential debate.
November 17, 2008 : Sid Patel A spirited group gathered in San Francisco to organize a protest as part of the nationwide "Join the Impact" day of action against California's Proposition 8.
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