activism
Convergence in Jacksonville to call for Marissa Alexander’s freedom
July 18, 2014Regional and national activists will come together to support domestic violence survivor Marissa Alexander and strengthen opposition to mandatory minimum sentencing.
Read moreNadine Gordimer, Nobel laureate, activist, dies
July 16, 2014Gordimer won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1991 for novels that explored the complex relationships and human cost of racial conflict in apartheid-era South Africa.
Read moreJose Antonio Vargas, immigrant rights leader, arrested by border patrol
July 15, 2014United We Dream Minority Affairs Council said Vargas was in Texas this past weekend in solidarity with unaccompanied children who cross the Texas border fleeing for their lives.
Read moreAFSCME grows by 90,000 since January
July 15, 2014The union sees its successful organizing campaign as a clear indication that face-to-face organizing is the proper response to what has been an onslaught of attacks on public service workers.
Read moreVictory for Al-Arian but justice still denied
July 11, 2014All criminal charges were dropped against Palestinian leader, Dr. Sami Al-Arian on June 27, a ruling greeted by those who have fought for nearly two decades to free him.
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