Movements

The Novel Defense That Climate Change Activists Are Using in Court

Not guilty on grounds of planetary necessity

Justyna Bicz

Why Bill de Blasio’s Housing Plan Is Nowhere Near Affordable for Low- and Mid-Wage New Yorkers

Expanding New York City's housing supply is not enough to expand affordable housing.

Jonathan Westin

Not Your Grandfather’s Black Freedom Movement: An Interview with BYP100’s Charlene Carruthers

The 30-year-old radical black queer feminist who's Rahm Emanuel's worst nightmare

Salim Muwakkil

The Changing Tide in Argentina: An Assault on the Public Sector and a Shift Towards Austerity

Argentine President Mauricio Macri seems to be intent upon implementing austerity and significantly changing the course of the previous Kirchner governments.

Sara Kozameh

The Other Keystone: The Alberta Clipper, the Pipeline No One Is Talking About

The Alberta Clipper pipeline is already transporting huge quantities of oil, but is doing so under the radar.

Branko Marcetic

Why Compton Students Are Suing Their Schools

Nine in 10 6th grade students in the area have witnessed or experienced a violent crime. Is trauma counseling part of their right to an equal education?

Ethan Corey

The Paris Climate Agreement Sets Ambitious Goals, But Countries Won’t Achieve Them—Without Us

COP21's heart may have been in the right place, but by the numbers, the sum is still climate catastrophe.

Tom Ladendorf

These Students Are Leading a Movement for Free College in the United States

At last, real organizing for tuition-free college is taking off in America.

Rebecca Nathanson

Free Speech In an Age of Campus Protest

How the media can work for, and against, the wave of anti-racist actions by students

Jill Hopke

Accused of Supporting Torture, DePaul University Dean Faces Calls For Resignation

Like others who had a hand in the Bush-era torture programs, activists say, Gerald Koocher is facing virtually no consequences for his role in allowing psychologists to participate in "enhanced interrogation" techniques.

Tom Ladendorf

I Saw Disturbing Racism at Yale After 9/11. Sadly, It Seems Little Has Changed.

When will our universities stop treating students of color as throwaway items in the grooming of privileged white students?

Saqib Bhatti

For Laquan McDonald and All Victims of Police Brutality, We Have To Win

If the progressive movement can't organize itself to fight back against racism and injustice in Chicago and around the country, police murders like those of Laquan McDonald, Freddie Gray and Rekia Boyd will never stop.

Katelyn Johnson

Why Cities Around the Country Should Adopt Municipal ID Programs

The IDs have proven a game-changer for immigrants in New York City, New Haven and elsewhere.

Emily Tucker

Fewer Police, Safer Communities?

The tension between safety from police and safety from crime

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Undocumented Youth Are Here Through No Fault of Their Own. But It’s Not Their Parents’ Fault, Either

Using the phrase "no fault of their own" in discussing undocumented young people does not encourage us to look at the roots of the poverty and violence their families experience.

David Bacon

California’s New Crisis Pregnancy Center Law Creates a Roadblock for Anti-Abortion Activists

CPCs have been repeatedly charged with providing misleading or, in some cases completely false, information for pregnant women.

Rachel M. Cohen

Lessons in Nonviolent Palestinian Resistance From the First Intifada: An Interview with Mubarak Awad

Mubarak Awad was one of the main organizers of the nonviolent resistance during the First Intifada and continues to practice strategic forms of nonviolent resistance to Israeli occupation.

Waleed Shahid