National : Nicole Colson The shutdown of a nuclear reactor and release of radioactive steam in Illinois illustrate the industry's inherent dangers.
February 9, 2012 : Amanda Achin Students at UMass Boston are trying to take back their campus center with a round-the-clock occupation.
February 9, 2012 : Sandy Boyer American Airlines announced it wants to cut 13,000 jobs and impose a range of other concessions--to "return to profitability."
February 8, 2012 : Michael Ware Occupy Burlington held a march to protest a court ruling overturning Vermont's decision to shut down a nuclear reactor.
February 8, 2012 : Emily Brooks Activists in Washington, D.C., protested Wells Fargo for its investments in the for-profit incarceration industry.
February 8, 2012 : Elizabeth Fawthrop When Komen for the Cure announced plans to stop approving grants for Planned Parenthood, it sparked furious protest.
February 8, 2012 : Megan Behrent New York's "education reform" agenda only pays attention to facts when it suits the city's agenda of demonizing teachers.
February 7, 2012 : Alex Schmaus Activist DeBray "Fly Benzo" Carpenter faces up to four years in jail after police attacked him for videotaping them.
February 6, 2012 : Eric Ruder The attacks on the Occupy movement send an unmistakable message: You have the right to free speech--but try to use it, and we'll do all we can to stop you.
February 6, 2012 New York City cops were shown a racist film as part of "training"--a sign of the depths of anti-Muslim bigotry in the NYPD.
February 6, 2012 : Alessandro Tinonga Oakland's politicians, police and media are on the attack against Occupy--and activists are responding with a discussion about what's next.
February 6, 2012 : Staughton Lynd A radical historian tells how inmates in the 1993 Lucasville prison rebellion overcame attempts by authorities to divide them.
February 3, 2012 : Ben Smith The city government in Charlotte, N.C., have passed a law to restrict demonstrations at the Democratic National Convention.
January 31, 2012 At least 300 people were arrested when police attacked an Occupy Oakland demonstration aimed at taking over an abandoned building.
January 31, 2012 : Sam Coleman A New York City teacher and activist responds to a slanderous article written by a New York Post columnist.
January 30, 2012 : Alan Maass For two weeks in the fall of 2003, activists from across the country boarded buses in a demonstration for immigrant workers' rights.
January 27, 2012 : Elizabeth Schulte The No Child Left Behind law ushered in a new era in our schools—an era of high-stakes testing, school closures and attacks on teachers’ unions.
January 26, 2012 Tucson schools are shutting down Mexican-American Studies classes after threats from state officials--but students are stepping up their protests.
January 26, 2012 : Hans Bennett Wrongfully convicted political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal is facing inhumane conditions in a Pennsylvania prison.
January 25, 2012 Newt Gingrich and his toxic brew of bigotry and reaction are back in the limelight--and his South Carolina victory says a lot about U.S. mainstream politics.
January 23, 2012 The Chicago City Council passed Mayor Rahm Emanuel's proposals to give police new powers to criminalize protest.
January 23, 2012 : Jason Farbman In a sickening echo of the infamous Tuskegee study, U.S. doctors injected unsuspecting Guatemalans with syphilis.
January 23, 2012 : Abdul Malik Mujahid Muslims in the U.S. are facing a sustained assault on their most basic rights--and it has had significant social and economic consequences.
January 19, 2012 The solidarity movement with longshore workers has been unnecessarily fractured as a shipping giant prepares to move grain from a scab terminal.
January 19, 2012 A Bangladeshi immigrant is finally out of a New Jersey detention center and back with his family, thanks to an activist campaign.
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