Tag: activism

"Just as food is essential for the existence of life, voting is essential for the existence of democracy." Those are the words of iconic civil...

All Embassy Protection Collective members want is to prevent military conflict with Venezuela. Since April 15, they have been holed up in the Venezuelan embassy in Washington,...

I was one of the over half a million people who participated in Saturday's "March for Our Lives." Perhaps you were too. Last year, I traveled...

There is much cause for concern these days. We have an executive branch clearly in the pocket of petro-billionaires and a majority of Congress...

Young Americans just aren't fighting back as much. Many millennials joined up in the Women's March and other protests after the election, but we...

Barack Obama's latest campaign is a gaining a large following - in France. Although the former President has been taking a break from professional...

The internet went nuts yesterday when pictures from CPAC showed attendees waving Russian flags with "TRUMP" on them in huge letters. Now, the activists behind...

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright had some stern words for President Donald Trump on Sunday. In an interview with CNN, she declared his...

Politicians and political commentators – including President Barack Obama – have argued that for left-leaning politics to prosper, Millennials must be mobilized. Now, a group...

As the struggle against the Dakota Access Pipeline in Standing Rock, North Dakota, heads into its eighth month, new information regarding President-elect Donald Trump’s...

Just yesterday, I wrote a piece about the KKK in North Carolina planning a march to celebrate Donald Trump's presidential victory. They're not the...

America’s preeminent intellectual, Noam Chomsky, accurately predicted the rise of Donald Trump. In a 2010 interview, the linguist, philosopher, and activist warned against a...

As an atheist, I'm obviously not a fan of churches. I will admit, however, that many churches do some great charity work. Churches have...

Greg Selden was rejected by an Airbnb host. Being rejected from the rental and lodging service is a normal occurrence, especially if an account...

If you ask American students what they aspire to do after high school and college, you will hear a multitude of typical responses: doctor,...

Part 1 of Liberal America's "Sunday Hero Series' Strong Women In History" features Louisville, Kentucky activist Anne Braden, a social justice leader who dedicated...

Puerto Rico is the strange stepchild that America claims to love but does little in the ways of nurturing and treating the same as...

What defines a living treasure? In compiling this list, I settled on the following criteria. A living treasure is someone who has: 1) demonstrated a lifetime...

?This song says, no matter who you are, no matter where you go in your life ? at some point you're going to need...

There are a couple things everyone assumes about the people they meet here in the town of Eastman, Georgia; you probably vote Republican, and...