Building on Our Poor People’s Campaign Coverage
Jun 10, 2018 Our reader-funded project to launch coverage of this important movement has been a success. Now we need your help to keep documenting activism across the nation in this historic moment.
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Documenting the Poor People’s Campaign
May 29, 2018 Activists and civil rights advocates from across the nation have joined to create a new movement that is reigniting Martin Luther King's 1968 effort to fight racism, militarism and materialism.
Take a Knee for Humanity
Sep 25, 2017 The days of keeping politics out of sports are history. Now is the time for sports figures to use their platforms to lead a global peace movement.
Lech Walesa Claims He’s a Victim of ‘Political Crime’ in Polish Probe
Aug 23, 2017 The onetime leader of Poland's Solidarity movement says the current administration in Warsaw is harassing him.
Noam Chomsky to Chris Hedges: ‘Everywhere You Look, There’s Public Subsidy’ (Video)
Jul 11, 2017 In the second part of their recent conversation, the renowned intellectual (left) tells the Truthdig columnist how the banking, fossil fuel and tech sectors profit from taxpayer dollars.VIDEO: Why Gaza and Ferguson Are Closer Than You Think
Oct 14, 2015 A powerful new video featuring dozens of artists and activists, including Lauryn Hill and Alice Walker, draws comparisons between blacks' and Palestinians' struggles for justice.
Truthdiggers of the Week: 40,000 Brave Norwegians
Apr 27, 2012 For proving that love for others, regardless of creed, gender or skin color, is still a powerful force in human affairs, we honor the 40,000 Norwegians who sang out in an Oslo square on Thursday against the violent dogma of mass killer Anders Breivik. They are our Truthdiggers of the Week.For proving that love for others is still a powerful force in human affairs, we honor the 40,000 Norwegians who sang out against violence and dogma as our Truthdiggers of the Week.
Time to Start Preoccupying Wall Street
Dec 10, 2011 What would it be like if activists were to spend the next several months developing, articulating and organizing toward a major national mortgage and student loan strike? Such a loan strike would be slated to begin on some specific preannounced date in the intermediate future. Why not, say, on Oct. 1, 2012, right in the middle of the next presidential campaign?Tyrannies all over the world exist in the ironclad certainty that people are nothing more than meat on sticks.
Indian Activist Poised to End Hunger Strike
Aug 27, 2011 Activist Anna Hazare has agreed to end his nearly two-week-long hunger strike on Sunday morning after India's finance minister announced that the general sentiment in parliament is to support the strict anti-corruption policies Hazare is demanding. (more)
Latino Studies Program the First Victim of Arizona Ban
Jan 9, 2011 Arizona is at it again. A controversial law governing ethnic studies programs has taken effect in the state. The first victim: the Tucson school district's Mexican-American program.
