Yesterday, 255 affiliates of the progressive organization, Moveon.org, held rallies throughout the United States to protest recent debt ceiling deal cuts and call for “jobs not cuts.” Most of...
April 2000, Knoxville, Tennessee I was working a series of activist groups in this place and time. We planned a labor teach-in, which included speakers such as Richard Trumka, now AFL-CIO president....
This is the first in a series of posts on Activism in the United States from regular GC contributor Erik Loomis. Let us know what you think! I have an obsession with the state of activism in the...
The Internet was aflutter this week with drama over Matt Taibbi's latest Rolling Stone story, wherein he blasts the Obama administration as being crammed full of multimillionaires from Wall Street...
I attended a silent vigil outside the Pakistani High Commission in London last week. It called for the abolishment of the death penalty in Pakistan and came just one week before the planned execution...
The tide has turned against capital punishment in America. The New Jersey legislature abolished its death penalty last week after years of moratorium and state-commissioned study. New York’s death...