In the heat zone of Louisville, Kentucky, 170 residents have been trained as “citizen foresters.”
This movement is not just about a pipeline. We are not fighting for a reroute, or a better process in the white man’s courts. We are fighting for our liberation.
As rents rise and independent businesses in Minneapolis lose their leases to large national chains, a first-of-its-kind co-op found a solution.
In Oregon, incarcerated women stay connected with their children through special visitations and virtual parent-teacher conferences.
People are turning their frustrations with the Trump administration into actions that make a meaningful difference in the lives of vulnerable community members.
The UC system is severing $475 million in contracts with Wells Fargo over, among other things, the bank’s ties to private prison corporations.
The Navajo Nation is making moves to join a growing number of tribes that have already respectfully, but conclusively, shown Wells Fargo the door.
After years of work, advocates for immigrant rights rejoiced at the permit process, which will help keep 50,000 street vendors on the right side of the law.
Criminal sabotage was one of the charges for Ken Ward, who with fellow activists in Minnesota, Montana, and North Dakota shut down pipelines carrying tar sands oil.
Fifty-five percent of Americans know very little or nothing at all about Islam, but this group wants to change that.
We can start difficult conversations by speaking from the heart and sharing our wish for a world where everyone is safe and free.
The surge of formal opposition to tar sands and fracked oil pipelines shows how Standing Rock resistance has emboldened Great Lakes tribes.
The first step? Recognize that we represent the majority.
Congress is already slowing down on the promise to end the Affordable Care Act, as the realities of a replacement sink in.
Lawyers and protestors took action: “Nobody’s going to fight alone.”
How to adapt the fictional lessons of the Harry Potter universe to a real-life Voldemort.
How feminist punk bands are igniting the fight against Donald Trump.
North Dakota’s move to put states in charge of reservations is just one example of the possible nonsense to come. The Trump Era will require new strategies.
Tensions are high on the Tohono O’odham Nation, where Border Patrol has proposed high-tech surveillance towers as part of a sophisticated “virtual wall” system.
Laws that caused voter suppression targeted mostly people of color and poor people. But new legislation could fix that.
Never has a modern president so flagrantly violated the Constitution. A constitutional law attorney explains this unprecedented situation in American history—and what we can do about it.
Seven banks—including Wells Fargo, TD Bank, and Citibank—will meet with Standing Rock Sioux leaders after months of intense defund-DAPL pressure.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reportedly has been directed to issue the Dakota Access pipeline easement, even though the environmental review is in the middle of a public comment period.
Original water protector camp resolves to stay—even as Sioux tribe says no and Trump orders pipeline construction.
Now until Feb. 20 is the public’s chance to push for a full review of the pipeline’s climate impacts. Here’s what to do.
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