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Linda Borg

July 20, 2014

Members of Providence Student Union applaud NECAP test postponement

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The student activists largely responsible for bringing concerns about the NECAP test to the public’s attention applauded the test’s postponement as a graduation requirement. One member of...

July 20, 2014

Rhode Island Students Win Three-year High Stakes Testing Ban

Today, the Rhode Island House of Representatives took a powerful step toward improving education statewide by approving H-8363, a three-year moratorium on the misuse of the NECAP exam as a...

Kate Raphael

July 14, 2014

Projecting Palestinian Liberation at Israeli Sponsored Film Festival

Attendees at Frameline LGBT Film Festival in San Francisco one Saturday night were treated to an extra screening outside the theater. As people lined up for the 9:30 film, activists...

July 8, 2014

"Show Us the Money" march on JPMorgan Chase demands bank pay promised $13 billion settlement

Forty Minneapolis residents with Occupy Homes MN and the Home Defenders League marched on JPMorgan Chase in downtown Minneapolis this afternoon, demanding they negotiate a fair deal for south Minneapolis...

Dillon Kato

April 26, 2014

Demonstrators in Missoula Call for Action on Climate Change

Climate activists in Montana don’t want to waste any more time. They want to see their politicians do something about the danger of climate change, and their voices are getting...

We Divest

April 1, 2014

The Fight for Justice in Palestine: TIAA-CREF divests social choice fund from controversial Veolia Corporation

The We Divest coalition joins workers, environmentalists, and corporate accountability organizations in congratulating pension fund giant TIAA-CREF for removing Veolia Environnement SA stock (VIE:EN Paris) from its Social Choice Funds...

Pelican Bay State Prison-Security Housing Unit, Short Corridor Collective, Prison Birth Project, Iraq Veterans Against the War and Civilian Soldier Alliance

April 1, 2014

The Struggle for Prisoners’ Rights: The movement for freedom for all took a huge leap forward

Editor's note: This past year marked a major shift in the movement away from mass incarceration, the drug war, and the prison industrial complex and towards prisoners’ rights. This shift...

Blue Skies Campaign

April 1, 2014

Together at Midnight: Indian People’s Action and Blue Skies Campaign Organize to Confront the Tar Sands Industry

Shortly after midnight, on March 13, 2014, 70 people rallied in a cold parking lot off Missoula’s South Reserve Street and waited for a “megaload” sized piece of equipment which...

Saif Rahman

April 1, 2014

In This Together

As the radical activist Helen Keller once said, “alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” As you know, RESIST supports hundreds of activist organizations throughout...

Victoria Law

March 21, 2014

Massachusetts Senate Votes for Childbirth Without Chains

UPDATE: On Wednesday, March 26th, all 146 members of the Massachusetts House voted to end the shackling of incarcerated women during labor, delivery and postpartum recovery. Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick...

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