Students Rally To “Afford To Dream”
Proclaiming “Education is an opportunity to success!” and “All human beings deserve equality and dignity,” 30 students held a candlelight vigil to support a state bill that would allow undocumented...
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Workers share stories of lost wages
A former employee of LaMac Cleaners in Lynnhurst and Tangletown went to court this month asking for thousands in overtime pay she said she was shorted over the course of...
US Farmers Fight Back Against Corporate Agriculture
The U.S. experience offers some valuable lessons to activists and sovereign states who are working to strengthen the role of small farmers. People from around the world are celebrating the...
Participatory Democracy Drives Anti-Gentrification Movement in New York's El Barrio
Eleven years ago, in an area known as El Barrio in East Harlem, New York, community residents of 15 immigrant families, all of them women of color, came together to...
Undocumented Students Fight for Equal Access to Institutional Aid
Undocumented students at the University of Connecticut are fighting for equal access to institutional aid and facing what they say is national ignorance, statewide unfairness and a local lack of...
How Montanans Stopped the Largest New Coal Mine in North America
Protesters block a coal train from entering downtown Missoula in 2015. (Blue Skies Campaign) Montana communities won a victory against one of the world’s biggest coal companies earlier this month,...
Housing Rights Protestors Shut Down FHFA Director Watt's Lecture at Harvard
A group of “anti-foreclosure” protestors disrupted a lecture given by Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Mel Watt at Harvard Law School on Monday, eventually leading to the event being prematurely...
Prisoners in Multiple States Call for Strikes to Protest Forced Labor
Prison inmates around the country have called for a series of strikes against forced labor, demanding reforms of parole systems and prison policies, as well as more humane living conditions,...
Discrimination in Parole Hearings Keeps Trans Prisoners Behind Bars, Advocates Say
Rickie Blue-Sky will appear before the California parole board on Wednesday. He has spent the past 32 years in prison for an act that he has always asserted he did...
Weekend Immigration Detainee Protest at Etowah County Jail Draws Activists
About 50 activists descended on the Etowah County Detention Center Sunday afternoon to protest federal immigration policy and the housing of immigration detainees there. William Anderson, a spokesman for Adelante...