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Cut the Pentagon!

Says Code Pink

September 14, 2021 • by Jo Freeman

_____ CopePink brought roughly one hundred people to the White House to demand that the Pentagon’s budget be cut. Joined by other sponsors of the action in Lafayette Park, they cut up a large cake shaped like the Pentagon. Pieces of cake were passed to the crowd while speakers talked about the next ...

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Texas Women Just Lost Their Right to Their Own Bodies

It’s time to fight back, and time to understand the anti-feminist backlash that allowed this to happen.

September 3, 2021 • by Jill Filipovic

_____ I am frothing and devastated watching the Supreme Court allow Texas to functionally overturn Roe v. Wade. I’m angry in a million different directions: At the woman-hating “pro-life” movement that has spent decades working up to this moment; at Democrats who have never done enough to preserve abortion rights; at ...

Texas Women Just Lost Their Right to Their Own Bodies

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The 2021 Voting Rights March, a Photo Essay

August 28 has become an anniversary to celebrate the accomplishments of African-Americans and to demand more rights

September 1, 2021 • by Jo Freeman

_____ August 28 has become an anniversary to celebrate the accomplishments of African-Americans and to demand more rights. The first one in 1963 was a March for Jobs and Freedom. The latest was a demand for a federal bill to stop state voter suppression laws. The first one brought 250,000 people ...

The 2021 Voting Rights March, a Photo Essay

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New UN Climate Report Is ‘Code Red for Humanity,’ but Joining Forces and Using Indigenous Knowledge Could Avert Disaster

In its first major climate report since 2013, the IPCC offers its starkest warning yet: Serious impacts of global warming are now unavoidable

August 13, 2021 • by Reynard Loki

_____ In a grim report released on August 9, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says that climate change was “unequivocally” caused by human activity, and that within two decades, rising temperatures will cause the planet to reach a significant turning point in global warming. The report’s authors—a group of ...

New UN Climate Report Is ‘Code Red for Humanity,’ but Joining Forces and Using Indigenous Knowledge Could Avert Disaster

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The Myth That Meat Is Essential for Human Health Could Harm Us All

Americans eat more meat per capita than any other country, even though meat consumption is linked to heart disease, diabetes and cancer

July 29, 2021 • by Jennifer Barckley

_____ Bacon and eggs for breakfast, a turkey sandwich for lunch, and roasted chicken for dinner are some of the go-to meal choices in America where meat is considered an essential part of the everyday diet. Historically, Americans have been led to believe that eating meat and other animal products is necessary ...

The Myth That Meat Is Essential for Human Health Could Harm Us All

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Undercover Investigations Expose Brutal Wildlife Killing Contests

Welcome to the cruel world of wildlife killing contests, family events where children play amidst piles of slaughtered animals—and legal in 42 states

July 21, 2021 • by Katie Stennes

_____ You would really have to try hard to find anything more depraved than a wildlife killing contest, which targets coyotes, foxes, bobcats, squirrels, raccoons, crows and even wolves and cougars in some states, for the sake of a prize that could range from cash to hunting equipment. These contests are ...

Undercover Investigations Expose Brutal Wildlife Killing Contests

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Seattle’s Capitol Hill Occupied Protest One Year Later

The city’s deep history of radical activism – and how it became a national symbol of anarchy

July 14, 2021 • by Pamela Ballinger

_____ A little over one year ago, on July 1, 2020, then-White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany proclaimed with fanfare that “Seattle has been liberated from the anarchists.” At the time, many Seattleites shrugged off this bizarre declaration that seemed so at odds with the city they inhabited – and with the ...

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Time’s Up for Fossil Fuels

A photo essay

July 2, 2021 • by Jo Freeman

Roughly 100 people got up very early on a very hot day to demonstrate against the use of fossil fuels. Mary Crow led everyone in prayer on DC’s Freedom Plaza around 7:30 a.m. Leaving a little after 8:00 a.m., different groups walked to five different locations around the ellipse and ...

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Taking on the Coors Brewing Company—and the Conservative Family Behind It

Consumer activists taking on the companies that support former President Donald Trump can learn from the boycott that never ended

May 18, 2021 • by Allyson P. Brantley

_____ Well into the 1990s, the energetic, septuagenarian gay organizer Morris Kight vehemently opposed any suggestion that the Coors beer boycott, first launched in the late 1950s by unionized brewery workers and later taken up by Chicano, Black, and LGBT activists, was over. For nearly four decades, Kight and other activists ...

Taking on the Coors Brewing Company—and the Conservative Family Behind It

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Teaching Through the Pandemic

In a course about memorializing HIV-AIDS, students learned about community by making one

April 21, 2021 • by Dan Royles

_____ Everyone involved in education has found the past year to be a special challenge for teaching, learning, and simply making it from one day to another. But how do you teach students about a pandemic during a pandemic? In December 2020, queer historian Dan Royles interviewed Theodore (Ted) Kerr and his ...

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The True Story of Two Guatemalan Asylum Seekers at Our Border

A saga of dispossession, past and present

April 15, 2021 • by Mónica Salmón Gómez

_____I met Francisco Chávez and Gaspar Cobo through a colleague and advocate for migrants’ and refugees’ human rights who works in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. The two of them had fled Guatemala in June 2019. Travelling with a larger group of Central Americans going north, it took them twenty days to ...

The True Story of Two Guatemalan Asylum Seekers at Our Border

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Reflections on Violence

In defense of rioting, looting, and vandalism

April 15, 2021 • by E. Colin Ruggero and AK Thompson

_____ What follows is an excerpt from a longer interview with AK Thompson, conducted by E. Colin Ruggero, and published as part of a special edition of Theory in Action titled “Revisiting the Riot: 10th Anniversary of A.K. Thompson’s Black Bloc, White Riot.” Thompson’s book was first published in 2010 by the ...

Activism

Cut the Pentagon!

Says Code Pink

Texas Women Just Lost Their Right to Their Own Bodies

It’s time to fight back, and time to understand the anti-feminist backlash that allowed this to happen.

The 2021 Voting Rights March, a Photo Essay

August 28 has become an anniversary to celebrate the accomplishments of African-Americans and to demand more rights

New UN Climate Report Is ‘Code Red for Humanity,’ but Joining Forces and Using Indigenous Knowledge Could Avert Disaster

In its first major climate report since 2013, the IPCC offers its starkest warning yet: Serious impacts of global warming are now unavoidable

The Myth That Meat Is Essential for Human Health Could Harm Us All

Americans eat more meat per capita than any other country, even though meat consumption is linked to heart disease, diabetes and cancer

Undercover Investigations Expose Brutal Wildlife Killing Contests

Welcome to the cruel world of wildlife killing contests, family events where children play amidst piles of slaughtered animals—and legal in 42 states

Seattle’s Capitol Hill Occupied Protest One Year Later

The city’s deep history of radical activism – and how it became a national symbol of anarchy

Time’s Up for Fossil Fuels

A photo essay

Taking on the Coors Brewing Company—and the Conservative Family Behind It

Consumer activists taking on the companies that support former President Donald Trump can learn from the boycott that never ended

Teaching Through the Pandemic

In a course about memorializing HIV-AIDS, students learned about community by making one

The True Story of Two Guatemalan Asylum Seekers at Our Border

A saga of dispossession, past and present

Reflections on Violence

In defense of rioting, looting, and vandalism

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