Nationwide Day of Action Condemns Risky Canadian Dirty Oil Pipeline
Clean energy advocates, landowners, indigenous activists unite to say pipeline puts lives, environment and property in peril.
Protesters Speak Out Against U.S. Support for Ethiopian Government
The sizeable DC Ethiopian diaspora protested U.S. tacit support of the corrupt Zenawi, who was recently re-elected.
Our Choice: Tune out Washington or Help Rebuild
Before you take that tea party road, I’d encourage you to ask some basic questions.
Split This Rock Poem of the Week: Randall Horton
A moment of verse, brought to you by the folks from Split This Rock Poetry Festival.
What’s Next for the Nuclear Disarmament Movement?
Thousands of peace activists recently gathered in New York to demand a nuclear-free world. Are the media and the president listening?
Arkansas and America’s Future Now
Progressives gather in Washington to chart a stronger strategy.
Israel’s Flotilla Massacre: Made in the USA
Maybe the Obama administration will use this moment to show us a real “change we can believe in” for Middle East policy.
Feisty Grannies Stand Up for Peace
A group of ladies from the mid-sixties into the nineties protests Obama’s war in Afghanistan.
Israel Plans to Meet Next Aid Ships with more Force
Relations with Turkey are deteriorating fast.
Pollan Digests the Latest Food Politics Books
Michael Pollan’s new essay highlights the diverse schools of food activism takes as well as unifying themes.
Split This Rock Poem of the Week: Remica L. Bingham
A moment of verse, brought to you by the folks from Split This Rock Poetry Festival.
Brown Bag: Activism through Film and Video
Award-winning filmmaker and IPS Senior Fellow Saul Landau has used the medium of film for over 40 years to move people to action on pressing domestic and global issues. His films have brought to life the turbulent anti-war protests of the 1960s, the life and words of world leaders including Fidel Castro and Dr. Salvador Allende, the effects of low-level radiation on residents of Utah and Arizona, and the negative impact of foreign investments on Mexico’s culture.
From the Frontlines: May 24th, 2010
Score for transparency, war makes you poor, and other things that happened while you were obsessing over the LOST finale.
What is Democracy?
Artist Oliver Ressler wants to hear what we think.
Hip Hop As Mass Media
This workshop explores the function of hip-hop as part of a larger mass media structure. The presentation involves an investigation of hip-hop history, inner-workings of the music industry, hip-hop as media and cultural expression, the historical legacy of Black image and the hip-hop underground. Much of this is done via the particular history and contemporary use of the mixtape as this original mass medium has gone from an underground phenomenon to a popular corporate conduit, as well as, becoming a potential source of emancipatory journalism and free space for ingenuity.