London Greenpeace activists being sued by an evil multinational corporation generated a lot of media attention and many solidarity actions, including the widespread dissemination of the“What is wrong with McDonalds” leafletthat had triggered the court case. In this clip, activists disrupt the filimin...
Katy Perry: “Welcome, legends. We’ve hadpoets,writers, andactivistsin this café, but today, we’re closing it out with the music that shaped generations. You’ve all been icons of reinvention, of youth culture, of moments that changed how people felt about themselves and the world. So...
a Victorian regional town 'Stawell' still bears the Attorney-General's name and Australia's most prestigious and well know professional footrace "The Stawell Gift", honours the memory of the man who engineered the butchery which occurred at Ballarat on December the 3rd 1854. ...
(NIMH) director, Thomas Insel recognizes what treatment reform activists and investigative reporter Robert Whitaker have been talking about for years鈥攖he research shows that American psychiatry's standard treatment protocol has hurt many people diagnosed with schizophrenia and other psychoses who ...
Your article about so-called Purple America (“Politicians, Pundits, and Activists Are Having a Culture War. The Rest of Us Are Nuanced or Ambivalent and Looking for New Directions,” March 2007) is wimpy and embarrassing. Don’t you understand that there are bad guys out there? It is ama...
Thomas Paine Anglo-United States thinkers, writers and political activists, theoreticians, revolutionary, radical democrat. Born in the United Kingdom Norfolk, had inherited fuye tailor, and later did teachers, tax officials, later to join the revolutionary movement in Europe and America. The United...
environmental crusaders keep shouting facts and presenting data and talking about the need to change as if we had the luxury of waiting for that to happen. At most maybe a few million people on this planet really know the score. Do these young environmental activists actually believe they are...
Oh, please: Some things are more important than U.S. activists’ moral purity. /// You write that the new military-interventionist peace movement feels “we have an obligation as human beings to stop the slaughter of innocents.” How about not enabling the slaughter in the first place?
The “smashed head” is an allusion to photos showing me on a hospital bed after my sixth physical assault, on September 19, 1989, when three “young Jewish activists from Paris” set upon me in Vichy, where I live. From November 1978 to May 1996 I sustained ten assaults, particularly ...
findings of the Power Inquiry, 2006). Some activists and practitioners look to Latin America for answers, where a long history of social mobilisation has more recently been able to open up real opportunities for engagement with the state. Participatory Budgeting in Brazil is a notable example of...