Chelsea Manning received a Presidential commutation but deserves much more. She is owed a pardon, compensation and an apology
Buddy Bell
Democracy in the streets votes Trump out!
January 23, 2017Reports from the huge Women’s March from participants in Chicago, Ill., Detroit, Mich., Oakland, Calif., Nashville, Tenn., Memphis, Tenn., Los Angeles, Calif., and New York City.
Demand Indigenous Peoples Day
November 26, 2016Participant report from Indigenous Peoples Day observation in Tucson, celebrating expanding human freedom rather than colonialism and imperialism.
Policies of exclusion challenged across the board and across the border
October 15, 2016Participant report of a cross-border protest at Nogales, Mexico, and Nogales, Arizona.
Chicago air show opposed
September 14, 2016Chicago anti-war activists protest the annual Air and Water Show’s message that war planes and war are cool, simultaneously educating the public on the wars the U.S. is involved in.
Slutwalk nixes shame
September 12, 2016Women and men showed their opposition to rape culture and support for victims of sexual harassment, assault and rape by marching in the annual Slut Walk, in Chicago.
Walking against indefinite detention
July 6, 2016Buddy Bell of Voices for Creative Nonviolence tells of their recent 150-mile walk across the state of Illinois on the issues of indefinite detention, solitary confinement and the racist U.S. prison system.
‘Leaderful’ movements
May 7, 2016A participant describes a four day retreat initiated by the Minn. Rye House Collective and facilitated by Black Lives Matter where he participated in demonstrations against the police murder of Jamar Clark and Target Fields exploitative use of mostly poor Black and brown people.
Hospitals, children bombed: war zone care a nightmare
March 18, 2016A Yemeni doctor pleads for help for the tragic and hopeless circumstances of many wounded from the Yemeni Civil War in a Taiz hospital, and the U.S. is called upon to have a grassroots movement to support military pilots who would resist what are clearly illegal bombings of foreign hospitals and healthcare and rescue workers.
Land struggles in Honduras
December 11, 2015A historical look at Hondurans struggle for their land.