Today marks the two-year anniversary of SB 1070 being signed into law by Governor Jan Brewer. The law has been extremely controversial due to provisions that promote racial profiling by local law enforcement. Many of...
Organizers and activists across the country were overjoyed last week to learn that Ai-Jen Poo, director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance was included amongst TIME's 100 most influential list. Poo,...
South Korea was riven by mass uprisings and radical movements throughout the 20th century, but that revolutionary legacy has been largely invisible in mainstream historical accounts. Now, with popular uprisings again...
Despite Burma’s steps towards democratic reform, an estimated 600 to 1000 political prisoners still remain behind bars. They are former students, monks, and ordinary villagers, who face torture and solitary confinement...
As revelations continue to surface about the extent of NYPD surveillance of Muslim communities in the New York area, a group of South Asian organizations has released a report documenting the chilling effects of over a...
Last Saturday, several hundred Indian Americans and human rights activists gathered in New York City to remember the Gujarat Massacre and mark its 10th anniversary. On February 28, 2002, in the state of Gujarat in...
New York City's Chinatown is one of the country's oldest, as well as one of the last remaining working class, immigrant communities in Manhattan. But it is also a prime tourist destination and choice real...
Join us for a special two-hour show featuring the editors and contributors of Occupy! Scenes from Occupied America (Verso Press, 2011). Timely and engaging, Occupy! offers firsthand accounts of the early...
How is the legacy of slavery carried forward to the present in the U.S. south? How is the increase in new immigrants changing the discourse on race in Atlanta? And how is Occupy Atlanta learning to do right by race? ...
As the Occupy movement fights to achieve economic justice for the working people of America, it has been striving to organize and stand alongside institutions like trade unions--which are not always as radical or...
