Trying to change the world for the better — being an activist, social change agent, do-gooder, whatever you want to call it — can be exhausting and dispiriting, especially for young people launching into it full of energy and hope.
Democracy Now!Trying to change the world for the better — being an activist, social change agent, do-gooder, whatever you want to call it — can be exhausting and dispiriting, especially for young people launching into it full of energy and hope.
By William F. Danaher This essay assesses the use of music in activism. Most of the research I’ve coauthored on music and activism has been from a historical perspective analyzing social movements. This poses special problems for the researcher who is … Continue reading →
Thousands of people protested in Bulgaria for a third day yesterday in a show of anger against the government, dismissing the prime minister’s bid to calm public outrage by reversing a controversial appointment of the country’s top security chief.
There are many organisations involved in lobbying South Africa’s government to stop the lion bone trade, including the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), the Campaign Against Canned Hunting and LionAid, but there is only one organisation taking the South African government to court over the issue, and that’s Avaaz.
Activists say more than 70 inmates have stopped eating in a bid to draw international attention to the inhuman prison conditions in Saudi Arabia.
JAKARTA — The Indonesian House of Representatives met Monday evening to debate a revised budget that includes a highly contentious increase in the price of subsidized gasoline, which drew thousands of protesters into the streets of the capital.
With several actions in the last week, a summer of planned climate resistance is off to a hot start.
The resolute determination of more than 100 hunger strikers at the prison in Guantánamo Bay has inspired a movement. In solidarity with their struggle for freedom, on the evening of June 7, I began a 300 calorie-per-day, liquid only, indefinite (open-ended) hunger strike.
PHILADELPHIA — At a press conference this morning at the Bellevue hotel, a group of parents and Philadelphia School District employees began an indefinite fast in protest of deteriorating safety conditions in Philly’s public schools, including last week’s announcement that 3,783 school district workers would be laid off at the end of the school year.
Thousands of teachers across Portugalwalked away from final exams held at secondary schools on Monday to protest against planned spending cuts in education, leaving many pupils unable to take the tests, unions said.
There is a profound sense of desperation and frustration on the Tibetan plateau. This is known to all who are familiar with the tragic situation in contemporary Tibet.
There was a major security presence for an anti-G8 protest in Belfast. The rally was organised by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, ahead of next week’s G8 summit in County Fermanagh.
A strike called by 33 parties in Nepal to protest an election called for November shut down transport, schools and markets yesterday, the parties said in a statement.
Two of Turkey’s main trade union federations, KESK and DISK, will go on strike Monday in protest at a police crackdown on anti-government demonstrators in Istanbul overnight, a spokesman for KESK told AFP.
Unreported in the mainstream press is the long-term hunger strike by a group of Americans in solidarity with the hunger strikers in Guantanamo prison.
KUALA LUMPUR — Malaysian police on Saturday arrested 15 people over a flash-mob protest held ahead of a planned June 22 opposition rally against alleged fraud in elections last month, but they were later freed.
