How to contact the 16 banks funding tar sands pipelines.
Efforts to defund Keystone XL target same banks that supported DAPL. “If you stop the flow of dollars, you stop the flow of oil.”
Economic relief agencies as well as support for arts and culture got nearly a five-month reprieve from the more radical cuts proposed in Trump’s budget.
Rights for many intelligent animals could hinge on a one-word edit in a law dictionary.
One researcher reports that local farmers believed the bomb was nuclear and that they’d been exposed to radiation.
The U.S. does not have to choose between backing the Assad regime or extremist groups. There is another choice: Syria’s homegrown pro-democracy resistance.
The Appalachian Regional Commission helps to create jobs and improve economic fortunes of “distressed counties” in West Virginia and Kentucky.
“Sanctuary policies are legal, and Trump’s executive order is not.”
While national outrage is focused on Public Broadcasting and the National Endowment for the Arts, tiny agencies helping communities that teeter on the edge of poverty would also disappear.
U.S. organizers of International Women’s Day urge women to find creative ways to strike on March 8.
Pruitt’s approach to the EPA is likely to threaten farmworkers, who are highly exposed to the effects of climate change, including heat stress and increased pesticide use.
This past October, women in Poland used a mass strike to stop an abortion ban. Organizers in the U.S. are looking to similar tactics in Europe to show the Trump administration they mean business.
Minneapolis and others are ready to follow.
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 debate about an exotic new kind of drug delayed the trade deal for years, thanks in part to relentless advocates who stood up to big pharma.
From reducing incarceration levels in Oklahoma to keeping kids out of adult prisons in California, voters gave a few significant wins to the rights of the incarcerated.
Maine’s unique solution for clean elections involves $5 contributions and campaigns funded entirely by taxpayers. And it’s working.
While many progressives might be missing Bernie Sanders, if you look hard enough, he was there Monday night.
Use the hashtag #HighStakesNov8 to live tweet the debate with us.
In the poorest region of the nation's poorest state, a tiny government program keeps money flowing through mom-and-pop financial institutions—changing lives.
Tell us about your gig life by using #IamtheGigEconomy.
If Congress hasn't taken action to help get money out of politics by April 10, 3,000 people have pledged to risk arrest in a week-long series of sit-ins.
On April 11, thousands of marchers with Democracy Spring will arrive in the nation’s capital. It’s expected to be the largest civil disobedience action in decades.
David Bowie pushed boundaries, challenged norms, and helped pop culture become more inclusive. Here’s how to keep his legacy alive.
A complex, for-profit system is behind these three-digit scores that affect your ability to borrow, rent, and work. Here's how regulators are putting credit score companies on notice.
Good debts? We know it sounds crazy. But there’s a quiet revolution brewing in how we move money around, and we want our readers to know about it.
The Port of Seattle has welcomed the oil company to temporarily moor its drilling rig before it’s towed to Alaska. But these protestors are threatening to block it.
After years of work as a climate activist, Keith Harrington decided to get a degree in economics. Now, he’s working to transform the field.
First, they started buying up—and canceling—individuals’ medical debt. Now the people behind Rolling Jubilee are taking on student loans from a for-profit university that exploits the poor—and the whole debt system could be next.
Filters that contain fungi with powerful antibiotic properties can help remove harmful bacteria from water.
The controversial trade deal poses serious threats to humans and the environment. We can find better tools in the fight for dolphin rights.
A trade deal likely to harm environmental and labor protections may be losing momentum. But it's not dead yet.
The issue of local food is more urgent when you're more than 2,400 miles away from the nearest continent.
Negotiators from Latin American and Asian countries said they were "doing their best" to stand up to the U.S. Trade Representative.
After a major leak from the agreement's secret text, people are talking about the TPP. What will it mean for the secretive trade deal's future?
A recent editorial in the The New York Times argued that the Trans Pacific Partnership should strengthen environmental and labor regulations. But that won't happen unless we change the process.
The public reaction to a documentary about captive orca whales showed an empathy we don't usually associate with TV audiences.
The Trans Pacific Partnership is likely to be a setback for efforts to regulate and label GMO foods.
For those in the intelligence community who want to come forward about government lawbreaking, Edward Snowden made it clear that they're not alone.
When their name appeared in Joss Whedon's new TV show, the environmentalist group Rising Tide took to social media to fight back.
Now that the encampments are gone, what do we have to show for our movement? As it turns out, quite a bit.
Daniel Agnew, Melanie Andrade, and Jabari Mickles are members of a group that occupied Florida’s capitol building after the Zimmerman acquittal.
The association says it will bring in retired members in an effort to defuse tensions between young occupiers and capitol police.
For the last three nights, a growing group has camped out in the Florida Capitol building, demanding the governor address their concerns about the Zimmerman acquittal.
As NSA-reporting blogger Glenn Greenwald comes under fire from some media outlets, social media users show solidarity through absurd humor.
Programs such as Prism could be used to hamper the social movements we need to tackle the biggest problems of our time.
Eight in ten Americans oppose the Supreme Court ruling, which allows unlimited corporate spending on U.S. elections. Delaware is the latest state to demand that Congress step in and overturn it.
The dams would cost $105 billion, flood an area twice the size of LA, and force the relocation of tens of thousands of indigenous people. Against all the odds, the local forest-dwelling people are coming together and organizing in a way that’s unheard of in this part of the world.
The sequester could result in the first significant cuts to the military budget in years. If it goes through, let’s make sure we avoid mass unemployment by training these veterans to work in growing industries.
Speakers at an Idle No More event in Seattle drew comparisons between spiritual and political struggles, making the movement seem closer to Civil Rights than Occupy.