On September 17th, 2011, protesters occupied Zuccotti Park in New York City’s Wall Street financial district and renamed it Liberty Square. Setting up tents, working groups, and general assemblies, the…
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…44] rammed an SUV into the front entrance of a Planned Parenthood clinic in St. Paul, Minnesota. January 1, 2012: Bobby Joe Rogers, 41, firebombed the American Family Planning Clinic…
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…event arranged for small group discussions (with prompts and questions) after the panel presentations and then after the workshop in the afternoon. This allowed participants to speak with one another,…
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…the cohost of Occupy Radio, and the cofounder of the Love-In-Action Network. She is also the social media coordinator for Campaign Nonviolence and Pace e Bene. Sun participated in the…
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…feminist values. When I asked my workshop participants how many of them were working for social change, every hand in the room went up. Here are 8 awesome take-aways…
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…Tim Boyd posted on Facebook, “Only the strong will survive and the weak will parish [sic].” This kind of cruelty makes me ashamed of my fellow Americans. We can’t say we…
Read more »…for participatory budgeting. “We’re paying for it,” was their slogan as the students argued against budget cuts for the health center and the failure to pay graduate teaching assistants a…
Read more »…http://dbapress.com/front-page/brownskins-and-greenbacks-alec-the-for-profit-prison-industry-and-arizonas-sb-1070 * These statistics come from: Bureau of Justice Statistics, “Correctional Populations In The United States, 2011” http://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=4537 Alternet.org “6 Shocking Revelations About How Private Prisons Make Their Money” http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/6-shocking-revelations-about-how-private-prisons-make-their-money…
Read more »…and resistance: Waging Nonviolence: http://wagingnonviolence.org Popular Resistance http://www.popularresistance.org Metta Center http://mettacenter.org Albert Einstein Institution (the work of Gene Sharp) http://www.aeinstein.org Training for Change http://www.trainingforchange.org Articles cited in this article:…
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…the downstream charge of the ship and nervously bracing her heels into the wooden deck as if that could halt their rushing pace. In the moonlight, the city loomed like…
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