#activism

#activism

When he began documenting his experiences and those of his unhoused neighbors back in 2019, three people were dying on the streets of Los Angeles County per day. Now, according to just-released public health data from 2024, that number has doubled to an average of six deaths per day, making questions of who gets to live and exist in public more urgent than ever.

Playwright Mikki Gillette—described once as 'the Joan of Arc of the trans community in Portland theatre' by actor and critic Bobby Burmea—sets the work in the lead-up to and immediate aftermath of the 1966 Compton's Cafeteria Riot. We're dropped into the lives of four trans people practically begging the world to care about their pain, but with very different ways of approaching a brighter future.

Activists have hung a photo in the Louvre museum in Paris of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor being driven from a police station after his arrest. The British political campaign group Everyone Hates Elon fixed the photo, which shows the former prince slouched in the backseat of a Range Rover, on a wall of the Paris gallery on Sunday. The photo was taken by the Reuters photographer Phil Noble after Mountbatten-Windsor's arrest on Thursday at the Sandringham estate on suspicion of misconduct in public office.

Morgan Fairchild is one of America's best-known actresses. Daytime soap opera fans may remember her in Search for Tomorrow in the mid-70s. Her breakout television performance as Constance Weldon Carlyle in Flamingo Road (Golden Globe Best Actress nomination), was followed by Racine, one of her favorite roles, in Paper Dolls. Ms. Fairchild also starred in long-running television shows including Falcon Crest and Dallas.

In the 1960s, after protesting for the Free Speech Movement and marching through the streets of Berkeley in support of women's liberation, Laura started accumulating pamphlets, manifestos, posters and newspapers from the early days of feminism. The collection became so voluminous it morphed into the Women's History Research Center, with more than a million pieces of paper. Now microfilm of those archives is spread in libraries around the world.

I just replayed my whole life - 16 years of pain and struggling in the closet - and I just thought to myself, 'What is the big deal?' I didn't have any social media at the time, just my private Facebook which had my football boys on it and I thought, 'Do you know what - I am just going to make a wee post.' Then I fell asleep, when I woke up it was an explosion of notifications, all the media outlets picked it up.

Boycotting is a form of collective action in which people intentionally choose not to support a company, institution, or system because it causes harm. For adults, boycotts are often tied to politics, capitalism, and historical trauma. For children, however, the conversation does not need to begin there. In fact, starting with politics often misses what kids understand best. Start With Humanity and Fairness

Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging. At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.

On May 16, 1998, the federal government used 600 pounds of explosives to destroy Marie Harrison's home, Geneva Towers, the largest residential implosion in California history. It was one of three detonations that rattled her community and inspired her life's work. The second came on June 18, 2008, when her activism helped light the fuse to implode San Francisco's old Pacific Gas & Electric Co. power smokestacks, long decried as an environmental and health hazard.

The graphic designer and content creator James Junk took to the stage at November's Nicer Tuesdays in LA to share the process behind multiple areas of his creative work with brands, sustainability, fashion design and social media work.

The first time Donald Trump took the oath of office, I felt an overwhelming sense of doom. My whole body somehow felt both impossibly heavy and utterly empty at the same time, like it couldn't decide whether it'd be safer to sink into the ground or float away into the clouds. I'll forever remember when Sean Spicer - Trump's first in what became a revolving door of White House press secretaries - stormed up to the podium, red-faced and fuming,

The Eisbach wave on a side branch of the Isar river had been a landmark in the Bavarian city since the 1980s but it vanished in October after annual cleanup work along the riverbed. Activists had placed a beam in the water early on 25 December to partially recreate the wave, according to German media reports, and hung a banner above the water that read Merry Christmas.

Learn how you can get started as activist. We are here for all green, progressive and social activists. We explain what activism is and how you can make a difference with community organizing.

There are many symptoms of totalitarian sickness gripping Alexander Lukashenko's Belarus. You risk being arrested for wearing red and white together, the colours of the outlawed flag of the country's opposition movement. Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four has been banned, which seems rather on the nose. But these are just some of the more farcical elements, the collateral comedy spinning from the deep repression, violence and psychological wounds charted in this sobering film that follows a trio of Belarusian activists,

"What is it like when you get erections?" is a question you do not want to hear in a 9am meeting. You would expect at least a little weekend catch-up before getting into all that. This piece of small talk comes from a consultant psychiatrist of the National Gender Service (NGS). Activist group Transgress the NGS released a video featuring this question last week taken during a regular assessment at the NGS.

We can fume at our screens all we want, but the world isn't going to change unless we actually take direct action-no matter how many snarky "gotcha" comments we post. "The thing I love most about the Howard Zinn Book Fair is that it helps folks who are feeling helpless and angry, yet who may have no sense of how they might better inform themselves, get involved and take action,"

If you want to get your hands on a physical copy of the intriguing new DC-music zine Jazz as Resistance, you could scope out local music venues, where copies will sporadically be available, and hope to get lucky. But the publication's editor, Giovanni Russonello, has a better idea: "The real answer is, write to us at the link on the site and volunteer to fold some for us. We'll send you a bunch so that you can be a part of it."

"Criminalizing people for rescuing suffering animals is a moral failure," Phoenix wrote. "Compassion is not a crime. When individuals step in to save a life because the system has looked the other way, they should be supported - not prosecuted. We have to decide who we are as a society: one that protects the vulnerable, or one that punishes those who try."

In a moment when the world feels like it's on fire, the only thing we can count on is each other. Relationships and care are not just the foundations of any functioning society, they are the tools necessary to rebuild a failing one. As we've seen throughout 2025, communities have been scrambling to respond to the relentless onslaught coming from the federal government, the corporate class, and the well-funded institutions of the global right.

After twenty years of campaigns, though, he sensed that the movement was going nowhere-and missing the deeper point. Too many environmentalists had "no attachment to any actual environment," he complained; they talked up the Earth but showed "no sign of any real, felt attachment to any small part of that Earth." A few years earlier, he had co-founded the Dark Mountain Project to promote what he would call "dark ecology." Its manifesto declared the fight against climate change lost and a "collapse" inevitable.

JESSICA PUPOVAC, BYLINE: The first No Kings march drew a massive crowd to Chicago's downtown as people raised their voices against Trump's efforts to deport people in the country without legal status. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) UNIDENTIFIED PROTESTERS: (Chanting) No hate. No fear. Immigrants are welcome here. PUPOVAC: This time around, organizer Denise Poloyac hopes even more people will join the protest.

San Francisco's political identity has been shaped by brutal, ideologically motivated crimes. In 1978, Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone were gunned down by their own Board of Supervisors colleague. In 1975, a shooter nearly assassinated President Gerald Ford on Powell Street. In 2022, Paul Pelosi, the husband of Speaker emerita Nancy Pelosi, was attacked in his home by a conspiracy theorist wielding a hammer.

(Jose F. Moreno/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP) Ben & Jerry's co-founder Jerry Greenfield quit the ice cream brand he built Tuesday after 47 years, declaring he can no longer in good conscience remain in the role as he accused parent firm Unilever of trashing the company's social mission in fear of those in power. Greenfield's resignation marks the most dramatic rupture yet in Ben & Jerry's long feud with Unilever, which acquired the company in 2000 under a deal that promised it the freedom to continue to campaign on social justice issues.