Projects tagged
Demonstration & Protest
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Mama’s Day Our Way
Read more: Mama’s Day Our WayBy Latoya Peterson, Racialicious Looking for a way to celebrate the folks who raised you–but from a slightly different perspective than you would get down at Hallmark? The good people over at Strong Families (a project of Forward Together/Asian Communities…
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Gay And Occupy Activists Confront Scott Lively And His Merry Band Of Tea Party Protestors
Read more: Gay And Occupy Activists Confront Scott Lively And His Merry Band Of Tea Party ProtestorsBy Evan Mulvihill, Queerty. When Tea Party activists gathered in Boston yesterday afternoon, they weren’t given license to shout their Small Government slogans at disinterested passersby—liberal activists of all stripes showed up to shout them down. Who doesn’t love a…
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Flour Bluff students expand education through activism
Read more: Flour Bluff students expand education through activismCORPUS CHRISTI — Many Flour Bluff ISD students have developed an extracurricular activity that takes their education to the streets, to social media and toward a path of change: activism.Much of the students’ passion stems from the April 1 suicide of…
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Over 500 Caged Dogs Rescued By Animal Lovers In China’s Yunnan Province
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Ex-Con Shareholder Goes After World’s Biggest Prison Corporations
Read more: Ex-Con Shareholder Goes After World’s Biggest Prison CorporationsFrom Mother JonesBy James RidgewayTomorrow, at the annual meeting of Corrections Corporation of America, the nation’s largest private prison company, shareholder activist Alex Friedmann will have exactly two minutes to speak about the unconventional resolution he introduced earlier this year…
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Veterans Peace Team, face to face with police on May Day
Read more: Veterans Peace Team, face to face with police on May DayUnlike some of Occupy Wall Street’s iconic actions in recent months, May Day did not include a scene of mass arrest. Several dozen arrests were scattered throughout the day and night during various marches and actions. But, as never before in…
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Lebanon’s migrant domestic workers demand equal rights
Read more: Lebanon’s migrant domestic workers demand equal rightsThere are over 200,000 migrant domestic workers living in Lebanon today — a large number when you considered that Lebanon’s population is only a little over 4 million. Most migrant workers live with their Lebanese employers, cleaning their houses, washing…
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Sotheby’s Teamsters and OWS protest The Scream auction
Read more: Sotheby’s Teamsters and OWS protest The Scream auctionAmidst a crowd of protesters and oversized signs, Pat Walsh shouted, “What’s disgusting? Union busting?” At a glance, Walsh, a woman with well-kept gray hair and an open smile, didn’t strike one as the usual angry protester. But that night,…
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Organizing against Bank of America in enemy territory
Read more: Organizing against Bank of America in enemy territoryThis week, thousands are descending on North Carolina for the Bank of America shareholders’ meeting. The protest comes on the heels of the successful Wells Fargo shareholder event in San Francisco, where thousands of protesters shut down the conference, and…
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Weekly protest at the slaughterhouse
Read more: Weekly protest at the slaughterhouseBy Catherine Porter I spent an hour Wednesday morning talking pigs and Leo Tolstoy on a traffic island outside the Princes’ Gates. Anita Krajnc and her group call this “Pig Island.” They come here most weeks to watch and photograph…