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Free Speech Radical

Mario Savio and the Free Speech Movement.

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A Party With No Punch

Three parables for progressives and the Grand Old (Democratic) Party.

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Ten Years After Seattle

The global justice movement evolves.

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It’s the Message, Stupid

A few months ago, healthcare reform seemed inevitable. Then came August. So-called teabaggers, with their dire warnings of a… more

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Should Neve Gordon Be Punished?

An Israeli professor's support for the Boycott-Divestment-Sanctions (BDS) movement sparks controversy.

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Limbaugh’s Nobel Sound and Fury

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The Right Battles a Mighty Acorn

The right is trying to undermine one of the left's most effective groups, Acorn, using film clips of the… more

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The Politics of Enchantment

The quest for a new kinship with nature might just save us.

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Building the Left in Harbor Country

We met our neighbors and helped turn rural Michigan blue.

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Uniting, One County at a Time

We helped make rural Oregon a force for progressive change.

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‘Mad as Hell’ Doctors for Single-Payer Rally

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Taking It to the Streets

Vendors battle bureaucracy for their place in the Second City.

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Gay Boys in Oil City

The fight for GLBT rights in rural America is far from over.

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Speaking Out: U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation Event with Rashid Khalidi

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Einstein and Israel

The great scientist was both a Zionist and bi-nationalist—a fact too complex for the author of a new book to accept.

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A Party Is Not a Movement

The difference between parties and movements is simple: Parties are loyal to their own power regardless of policy agenda;… more

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Will ‘Astroturf’ Groups Block Net Neutrality Reform?

Chris McGreal, a reporter for Britain's Guardian newspaper, took to the road last month to report on how Americans… more

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Taming Wall Street Cowboys

A new advocacy group heads to Capitol Hill to counter financial industry lobbyists hungry for deregulation.

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Freedom from Fear

Those of us living in the Rocky Mountain region are steeped in America's famous gun culture--and we therefore know… more

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Teabags vs. Douchebags

Why this may not be the second coming of the New Deal after all.

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Prairie Fire

A bitter labor conflict ultimately failed in Decatur, Ill., during the mid-'90s. But a new book argues that tactics developed there by locked-out workers strengthen today's labor movement.

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Happy Serf Liberation Day

Free Tibet? Not so fast.

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Czech Against U.S. Military Power

Activists successfully oppose a Pentagon radar base plan in the Czech Republic.

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Modern-Day Monkeywrencher

During the final days of the Bush administration, Tim DeChristopher's civil disobedience drew attention to a rushed federal auction for Utah drilling rights.

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Do-It-Yourself Governance

Without new social movements, there will be no new New Deal.

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To Boycott Israel…or Not?

Naomi Klein and Rabbi Arthur Waskow debate whether divestment will bring peace to the Middle East.

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All-Consuming Poverty

The upside of the current depression is that Wall Street greed and Washington corruption show as starkly as blood… more

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You Say You Want a Revolution

A founding member of the Weather Underground looks back at an organization unable to come to terms with its own violence.

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To the Streets

The killing of Oscar Grant inspired a Bay Area movement now coming to terms with its own complexity.

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This Land Is Their Land

The Landless Workers Movement claims a big victory in southern Brazil.

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Moving Forward Without Dogma

Despite the severity of the current economic crisis, the morale of the progressive movement remains sky high. Liberals, progressives… more

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Republic’s Battle Cry

Workers occupying a closed Chicago factory are sending a strong message to Washington: protect workers' rights.

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Framing the ‘RNC 8

Members of anarchist organization face terrorism charges, nearly eight years in prison

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Embedded in Pink

Code Pink has become a lightning rod for contemporary activism - from both the right and left.

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Punk Manifesto

Erick Lyle's On the Lower Frequencies collects material from the low-budget zines Scam and Turd-Filled Donut -- and deals with issues still important today

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Sleepwalking Through Seattle

Battle in Seattle is a well-intentioned effort that ultimately misses the mark

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Mapping the Road Less Traveled

Practical Idealists offers useful advice for young activists, but is utilitarian to a fault

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Five Years on the Hotel Picket Line

Directly west of Chicago's iconic Buckingham Fountain sits the Congress Hotel. Itself an icon during its heyday of the… more

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The Friendship Offensive

Peace activists on Capitol Hill hope to stave off war with Iran through cross-cultural contact between ordinary citizens

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Death Squads in Oaxaca

The Mexican government ignores the assassination of two community radio activists

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