Parents and grandparents of trans youth, plus their therapists and medical providers, are fed up after years of health care bans and hostile rhetoric. Those feelings are driving them to do things they've never done before - like plan to get arrested at a protest.
It is a locus of people gathering and an opportunity to talk to legislators and to be in DC and try to understand for someone like me, that doesn't work in politics, who is not involved in policy work and organizing what is the texture of this stuff here?
New Yorkers defied the federal government recently by re-raising the rainbow colors of the Pride flag above the Stonewall National Monument where it belongs, days after the Trump administration had it taken down. This act of civil disobedience, at the Greenwich Village site where the modern gay rights movement began nearly 60 years ago, was important not just for the city's LGBTQ+ community but for the country at large.
Leaders of an environmental advocacy organization known for pulling provocative stunts such as spray painting the Charging Bull statue in New York City and pouring paint at Google headquarters claim that they are under investigation by the FBI. Extinction Rebellion NYC, a self-described "nonviolent climate advocacy nonprofit," alleged that two special agents from the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force visited a former member at their home 200 miles outside of New York City.
Co-founder Arthur Clifton, a former leading figure in Just Stop Oil, explained the first strategy would involve a series of "take backs". Speaking to roughly 200 activists, he said: "We have seen that food is locked behind skyrocketing prices. Less and less people can afford less and less food. "So what we do is actually pretty obvious - we go in there, we take it out and we redistribute it to the local community. This is what we are going to be doing in March."
In a post on X, Pahlavi, who lives in exile in the United States, said, "I am certain that by making our street presence more targeted, and at the same time, by cutting off the financial lifelines, we will completely bring the Islamic Republic and its worn-out and fragile repression apparatus to its knees." Pahlavi urged workers from Iran's key economic sectors, particularly transportation, oil, gas and energy, to go on a nationwide strike to ramp up the pressure on Iran's ruling clerics.
We are here because we have a different view. We care about the planet and its inhabitants. We value it as a gift of our creator. We want to live in harmony with creation. We are here because we are motivated by love, not profit.
It was 70 years ago when four African Americans were sitting in the fifth row of a bus in Montgomery. As one white man had to stand towards the front, the driver asked the four to get up and move towards the back of the bus. Three did; one did not the rest is history. Or so many American kids might think when they first read the story of Rosa Parks in school.
It was one of the most dramatic protests in Los Angeles by activists who opposed Israel's war in Gaza: a shutdown of the southbound lanes of the 110 Freeway as it passes through downtown. In a chaotic scene captured by news helicopters, protesters sat down on the freeway in December 2023, halting traffic just south of the four-level interchange. On live television, enraged motorists responded by getting into physical altercations with demonstrators.
In what was initially seen as a radical fusion of Judaism and political activism, he engaged in civil disobedience - he was arrested more than two dozen times, including outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility during the first Trump administration - and wrote books that bridged the secular and spiritual, with titles including "Handbook for Heretics and Prophets: A New Torah for a New World" and "Down-to-Earth Judaism: Food, Money, Sex, and the Rest of Life."
The first thing I saw when I arrived at a protest site near the Broadview ICE facility was a pile of stuffed animals and a sign encouraging us to throw them at ICE vehicles while heckling the agents inside. This was not an official function of the protest. The demonstrations that have been held outside and around the Broadview detention facility - the central processing center for ICE's ongoing assault on Chicago, which
In the middle of the night, the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) painted over the Pride crosswalk outside the Pulse nightclub memorial, where 49 people were killed in a mass shooting in 2016. In response, protesters used chalk to restore the memorial's rainbow colors-and then repainted it after rain washed the chalk away. FDOT quickly painted the crosswalk black again and posted signs reading "defacing roadway prohibited."
The SEARCH program has existed at Rhodes College, in one form or another, since 1946. This chronologically oriented, three-semester "Great Books" interdisciplinary humanities sequence introduces students to the Western (and some non-Western) canon and prepares them for the academic rigor of college courses. It aims to develop students' critical reading, writing, and thinking skills, and provide a common experience that builds intellectual community across campus (about forty percent of incoming freshmen usually enroll).
Lander's arrest emphasized the tension between rule of law and government authority, highlighting a critical moment in American democracy where activists must choose to fight for justice.
