Occupy Wall Street’s Deep Roots
If Howard Zinn were alive today, he’d be writing a new chapter right now.
Report from Occupy Boston
Occupiers in Boston expand their camp to Rose Kennedy Greenway Park, but they are met with police force and arrests.
What Have They Done with Ron Paul?
The mainstream media mostly ignores him.
How To Raise Big Gifts In Two Hours A Week
Major gifts fundraising is a mystery, an art, and a system. If you have board members with networks of philanthropists, or donors who are giving less than they could, you have the seeds of a major gifts program.
The Environment Could Use Some Rich Friends
The Earth needs a well-heeled lobby to survive all this pillaging.
100 Thousand Poets for Change, DC: Poetry Walk of Shame
Join Split This Rock and Foreign Policy in Focus, a project of the Institute for Policy Studies, as we give voice to some of those poets for one day. We’ll take a short walk to the embassies of three countries — Yemen, Burma,… and Turkmenistan — where citizens have no right to free speech, where poets, writers, and other freedom lovers have been threatened, arrested, and murdered for their words and their activism.
A Mother’s Plea for Sasha and Malia: No Tar Sands Pipeline
Children have a way of speaking to our hearts.
Tar Sands Protests in Front of the White House [VIDEO]
For several days now, protesters have assembled outside the White House to express their opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline. The proposed pipeline will carry toxic, corrosive bitumen from the tar sands and will stretch over 1,700 miles from Canada to Texas. There, it will be refined, primarily for export.
Gold or Water? A Deadly Debate in El Salvador Mines
To protect their water supply, Salvadorans are trying to ban corporate gold mining – and facing threats and violence as a result.
People-Powered Media
Community radio is about to undergo an unprecedented expansion.
Marching to Save Our Schools
Our kids have gotten the message: the test is all that matters.
Weather Extremists
Only an extremist would believe that extreme weather is caused by extreme human behavior.
From Armistice to Peace Treaty: A Step Towards Ending the Korean War
On July 27, 1953, the U.S. signed an Armistice agreement with China and North Korea to temporarily halt the fighting that claimed 4 million lives and divided 10 million families pending a formulation of a peace treaty. Despite the desire of people in North and South Korea for peace and reconciliation, no peace treaty has been signed, though China has normalized relations with the U.S. and South Korea.
Race 2012 and What Few Progressives Are Discussing (POSTPONED)
Unfortunately this event will not take place on the date posted and has been postponed until further notice.
We all watched as Donald Trump took credit for the release of Obama’s birth records and also demanded a copy of Obama’s university transcripts claiming he “heard he was a terrible student.” While many have seen attacks of Trump and other elitist Republicans for what they really are, overt racism, they have been dismissed as merely ignorant remarks that do not have a place in U.S. politics. However, these attacks have uprooted racial prejudices felt by many white Americans and may significantly impact the 2012 election. In an age of “colorblindness,” it is apparent that color remains an issue for many Americans.
Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here: Opening Exhibit and Reading
The Corcoran Gallery of Art presents ‘Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here’, a collection of 130 broadsides celebrating our collective cultural voice and representing the deaths and injuries of the March 2007 car bomb on al-Mutanabbi Street in Baghdad.