Activist News

  • Seattle bans the box

    The Seattle City Council voted unanimously to prevent employers from requiring job seekers to disclose a criminal record.

  • Showing our support for Gezi

    Some 250 demonstrators gathered at the White House to demand an end to Turkey's brutality against protesters.

  • Calling for a CAT-free commencement

    Students and faculty at the University of Washington are planning to call attention to Caterpillar's human rights abuses.

  • Solidarity with Taksim

    Some 70 people gathered in Austin, Texas, to voice their support for the demonstrations for democracy in Turkey.

  • Solidarity with Taksim Square

    Turkish people in the U.S. joined with supporters to hold actions in solidarity with Turkey's fast-developing uprising.

  • Standing up to Monsanto

    Protests were held across California, from Eureka to San Diego, as a part of the international March Against Monsanto.

  • Protesting health care apartheid at U of C

    Under pressure, University of Chicago Medical Center officials agreed to a public discussion of a South Side trauma center.

  • Taking on a corporate giant

    People in hundreds of cities participated in a worldwide "March Against Monsanto" for our health and futures.

  • Northampton demands a seat

    Residents of Northampton gathered for a protest against the removal of public benches as an attack on the poor.

  • Foreclosure victims send message of protest

    Housing activists went to Washington to demand the Justice Department prosecute the bankers who caused the crisis.

  • We want birth control access

    Some 50 women and men took part in an action in Gainesville, Fla., to demand the morning-after pill without restrictions.

  • Racial profiling on campus

    University of Southern California students registered their outrage at the LAPD's racial profiling at two house parties.

  • "We will not be threatened"

    Thousands took the streets in Greenwich Village to protests the anti-LGBT attack that killed Mark Carson.

  • Students walk out in Philly

    Some 2,000 Philadelphia students took action to protest racist school closures that will ravage the school district.

  • A year of fighting for Alan

    Two hundred people turned out on May 6 to mark the one-year anniversary of Alan Blueford's murder by Oakland police.

  • "My god, they're beating him"

    Benny Warr was sitting in his wheelchair waiting for the bus when Rochester police told him to leave--and then beat him.

  • Every school is our school

    Days before the Chicago school board was to vote on closing 54 schools, thousands took to the streets for three days of marching to demand education justice.

  • Of checkpoints and pancakes

    Students at Middlebury College set up a checkpoint outside a dining hall to draw attention to the issue of Israeli apartheid.

  • Marching against Monsanto

    Activists with the Anti-Monsanto Project will march in California's capital against the genetically modified seed company.

  • 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.