Named after the “freedom schools” of the civil rights movement, Freedom University was started in 2011 by a group of professors at the request of undocumented students.
Democracy Now!Named after the “freedom schools” of the civil rights movement, Freedom University was started in 2011 by a group of professors at the request of undocumented students.
On a 100-degree day last summer, on Chicago’s southernmost edge, Willie Fleming, who goes by J. R. (“It stands for Just Righteousness”), crept up to an abandoned ranch house shrouded in overgrown weeds.
Out of the 4.8 million , a handful fight back and refuse to leave. “There might be hundreds, maybe thousands,” Gottesdiener says.
Last Thursday night’s event at the New York Public Library got a whole lot funnier when about 50 people staged a laugh-in against Mexican businessman Carlos Slim.
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After publishing her feature “The struggle to reclaim paradise” on Waging Nonviolence, author Imani Althemus-Williams took to the airwaves to elaborate on the growing fight to stop genetically modified food production and testing from destroying Hawaii.
Right now, a small cadre of senators, led by Republican Rand Paul of Kentucky, are occupying the senate floor in a filibuster protest against the nomination of John Brennan to head the CIA.
I’ve spent a lot of time doing reporting on housing activism, which often means listening to the same chants over and over again.
I’m not a video game person, but I just learned about one that I will definitely try out. It’s called Riot, and it’s a low-tech simulation of the global unrest over the last few years.
by Laura Gottesdiener. “We are about to take this house over, okay?” shouted Reneka Wheeler, speaking slowly and emphasizing each word as she stood in front of a vacant house in southwest Atlanta two weeks ago. It wasn’t really a question; the home had already been cleaned up and secured, and the only thing left
