Scores of protestors rallied in Washington D.C. to demonstrate against the Keystone XL pipeline Sunday, laying on the ground …
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Fast Food Workers Strike Across the Country
Employees of fast food companies are on strike around the country Thursday, demanding higher wages and union privileges. The Service Employees International Union claims the strike will hit as many as 60 cities from …
Raleigh Police Threaten to Arrest Church Volunteers for Feeding Homeless
The city requires that groups purchase an $800 permit to use the park near where homeless are fed.
Partisan Politics Creep Into “I Have A Dream” Anniversary
The agenda of the events commemorating the 50th anniversary of the march on Washington stands in contrast to the unifying nature of Dr. King
Another Day in Washington: About 50 Arrested At Keystone XL Protest
About 50 people were arrested in a Keystone XL pipeline protest Friday, amid growing concern by environmentalists that the Obama administration will approve the project, which stretches 875 miles from the tar sands of Alberta to …
Peaceful Trayvon Protests Prove Talk of ‘Race Riots’ Wrong
The mood in Phoenix on Monday was angry—but it was also peaceful. Dozens of people marched through the Arizona city’s downtown to protest George Zimmerman’s acquittal in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin. They chanted …
Obama’s Re-Election Inspires Southern Secessionists
While there’s no chance that the spate of secessionist rhetoric will dissolve the union, there is a seamy aspect to the surge in petitions. Little concrete information is known about most of the signatories, and southern nationalists have rallied around the idea.
RNC In Pictures: The Protests
Tropical Storm Isaac led organizers to cancel Monday’s lineup at the Republican National Convention, but protests in Tampa went ahead mostly as planned. Photographer Grant Cornett was on scene to capture the action
Behind Wisconsin Democrats’ Million-Signature Show of Force in Walker Recall Effort
Asked why he signed a petition to recall Wisconsin governor Scott Walker, George Shiver, 55, emptied a bag of prescription medications onto the coffee table in his untidy Eau Claire apartment. “These are the drugs I take to …
Campaign Circus Reaches Fever Pitch in New Hampshire
Bedford, New Hampshire
The Granite State had been worked to a fever pitch by Monday, as candidates made their final appeals before the long-anticipated primary. In the sleepy New Hampshire hills, the buildings overflowed. Crowds of reporters swallowed candidates and innocent bystanders alike. And the kooks and activists came out to …
Eight Votes in Iowa: Where the Race Goes from Here
When the bean counters finished tabulating the results from the 1,774 precincts that decide the Iowa caucuses, eight votes separated the victor, Mitt Romney (30,015) from the runner-up, Rick Santorum (30,007). Marvel at that for …
Violence Gone Viral and the Lessons of Occupy Oakland
Civil disobedience is easy to embrace from a distance. Few Americans condemned the thousands who gathered peacefully in violation of the law across the Arab world this spring. But when it starts happening on your doorstep, clogging up your streets or bringing drum circles to your place of work, it’s another matter altogether. And so …
Why the Washington Establishment is Heeding Occupy Wall Street
The running critique of the Occupy Wall Street protests is that they have too many bongo drums and not enough message coherence. But that hasn’t stopped Washington’s elite–Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and President Barack Obama–from all hearing the same, singular message loud and clear.