activism
How a Community Network Caught A Tufts Student Being Abducted by ICE
This is how we know what really happened to Rumeysa Ozturk.
By Andrew Willis Garcés
5 Women Musicians Behind Legendary Protest Songs
From Joan Baez to Nina Simone.
By The Birthplace of Country Music Museum
How This Teen Labor Organizer Became an International Symbol of Resistance
Angelo Herndon was jailed after leading a march of 1,000 people through Atlanta.
By Rita Omokha
Environmental Racism Is Literally Making Black and Brown Students Sick
Millions of young people like me go to school near major highways.
By Xanath Hernandez
Gun Violence Has Cast a Shadow Over the Entire 2024 Election Cycle
From a school shooting in Georgia to assassination attempts against Trump.
By Toni Odejimi
College Students Are Voting in Numbers They Never Have Before
“You’d think the dysfunction would scare people off, but it’s a motivator.”
By Jon Marcus, The Hechinger Report
This Climate and Mental Health Worker Saw Her Family’s House Burn in a Wildfire
The Lahaina wildfire in Maui killed 102 people.
By Anya Kamenetz
Who Was Aaron Bushnell Before He Set Himself on Fire for Palestine?
"Many of us like to ask ourselves, ‘What would I do if my country was committing genocide?’" Bushnell wrote in his last post. "You’re doing it. Right now."
By Lex McMenamin
How Does Throwing Soup Get Us to Climate Policy Changes?
The latest soup-throwing incident is part of a long tradition of direct action.
By Dana R. Fisher
Harvard Students Doxxed for Israel-Palestine Letter Speak Out
“I think it's just hard to feel safe when not just your face is on a truck, but also… [faces of] people who look like you.”
By Brittney McNamara
Progress Isn’t Guaranteed. We Need to Learn From Protests of the Past
Ben Tumin and Vincent Bevins on the important lessons for a new generation of protesters.
By Ben Tumin
18 Sunrise Activists Arrested for Occupying McCarthy's Office: "The GOP Hates Gen Z"
"The GOP can try to run from the problems... but Gen Z will not stand for that."
By Lex McMenamin
Over 100 Protesters Arrested in Biggest NYC Climate Disobedience in a Decade
"We're out of time. And Biden needs to get off his ass and actually do something."
By Lex McMenamin
I Interrupted the White House Press Secretary — Here's Why
"President Biden’s continuous support for fossil fuels is putting his support among young people at risk."
By Elise Joshi
We Live in A Society, Whether You Like It Or Not
On the deaths of Jordan Neely, Banko Brown, and Amy St. Pierre.
By Lex McMenamin
Republicans Are Censuring Black and Trans Lawmakers
First Mauree Turner, then the Tennessee Three, now Zooey Zephyr.
By Lex McMenamin
Lorena Austin Wants to Redefine What a Politician Looks Like
The Arizona state representative is the first Chicanx gender-nonconforming state official in the country.
By Lex McMenamin
‘No More Police’ Shows Abolitionists Are the Actual Realists
Mariame Kaba and Andrea Ritchie explain how "we don't actually care about children in this country."
By Lex McMenamin
This Dull-Sounding Electoral Practice Fuels Mass Incarceration
“Prison gerrymandering” is a major issue.
By Alexis Benveniste