Tag: protests
After youth activists storm their offices, 13 more House members agree...
By day’s end, Sunrise had racked up nearly 150 arrests and support from the likely new leader of the House Rules Committee.
I walked right up to militarized police at the border
The risk we took at the border is overshadowed by the risks taken by the courageous participants of the migrant caravan.
‘Our leaders are behaving like children:’ Teen climate activist confronts world...
"The people will rise to the challenge. And since our leaders are behaving like children, we will have to take the responsibility they should have taken long ago.”
‘We gonna rise up, rise up ’til it’s won!:’ 140+ arrested...
"When the people rise up, the powers come back. They tried to stop us but we keep coming back."
‘Shame on you!’ Protesters interrupt Trump admin promoting coal & fossil...
Protesters at the UN climate summit in Katowice, Poland, as they interrupted a Trump administration event promoting coal and other fossil fuels.
Mobilizing against extinction
"When society is ready to lose its sense of fear in the face of state authority, then everything crumbles and change can happen.”
#BlackFridays walkouts turn rage into action and community
This initiative, connected by the Twitter hashtag #BlackFridays, has resulted in a number of symbolic walkouts across the country led by a network of women of color.
‘An incredible victory:’ Opponents of Keystone XL Pipeline praise judicial order...
The court’s decision will require the Trump administration to review more thoroughly the potential negative impacts of the pipeline on the surrounding environment and climate change.
Increased restrictions on protest won’t keep communities safer
Instead of looking to combat-ready police to solve the problem of public disruption, the community itself has the capacity to create structures of safety and support by focusing on solidarity and confronting the foundational issues that are causing the violence in the first place.
5 ways new movement leaders are effecting change
Today, new movements are working with more established organizations to capitalize on their wide-reaching networks.