An End of the Year Note
Dear Supporters of Resist, For many years now, I've written a note to the Resist community asking to consider donating an end of the year gift to Resist. I do...
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The Rights Stuff
Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean...
MBTA to Test Expanded Student Discounts
The MBTA will begin testing a new discounted fare pass program for teens and college students this summer, a victory for youth transit advocates who have long sought cheaper fares...
The Belly of the Beast
On certain occasions, the beast comes out in full daylight. Whether it be brutal, illegal torture by the hands the US Government abroad or the violence and terrorizing of black...
MBTA Plans to Offer Youth Pass, University Pass as Part of One-Year Pilot Program
The MBTA is planning to roll out two new pilot programs that would offer young riders between the ages of 12 and 18, as well as area college students, special...
Demonstration Outside Tampa Publix Promotes Farmworker Justice
Farmworkers and social justice advocates gathered outside a North Tampa Publix Saturday evening to demand fair wages and better treatment for workers in the fields. The demonstration coincided with the...
What Death Penalty Opponents Don't Get
In 1987, when he was 23 years old and in court on a drug charge, William Blake shot two sheriff’s deputies in a failed escape attempt, killing one. At his...
Baby on Board While Behind Bars
GREENFIELD — At any given time, 6 to 8 percent of incarcerated women are pregnant, local women’s rights activists say. Jailed women too often lack physical and emotional support, suffer...
Missoula Woman Inspired by Jail with Grandmothers after Megaload Protest
Debby Florence sat on Reserve Street staring up at the megaload in the middle of the night. It was a monster, nearly 750,000 pounds, on its way to the oilfields...
On Ferguson, Justice, and Solidarity
Dear Resist Community, While there is no silver lining to the news last night of yet another police officer not being held accountable in Ferguson, Missouri, we here at Resist...