Staff / TruthdigAug 24, 2011
Hundreds of environmental activists have shown up outside the White House this week -- prepared to risk arrest -- to protest a proposed transnational oil pipeline project they say will do more harm than good. More than 200 people have already been arrested. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigAug 23, 2011
Who made your week by speaking truth to power, blowing the whistle or standing up to injustice? Let us know here. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigAug 22, 2011
Gus Speth, environmental lawyer, former Clinton adviser and founder of the Washington, D.C.-based World Resources Institute, who was arrested Sunday at the White House while protesting a proposed oil pipeline, has some bad news for American optimists. (more) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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Staff / TruthdigAug 21, 2011
Author, activist and founder of the global environmental movement 350.org Bill McKibben was arrested outside the White House on Saturday along with 64 others protesting the construction of a pipeline from Canada's tar sands sites to refineries on the Gulf of Mexico. (more) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigAug 18, 2011
Mumbai's famous dabbawallas, who pick up and deliver more than 200,000 hot, homemade lunches to office workers in the Indian commercial capital each day, have announced they will strike for the first time in 120 years to support the efforts of anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigAug 16, 2011
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Staff / TruthdigAug 15, 2011
Youth-led revolts are shaking up the world; Shepard Fairey gets beaten up in Copenhagen; and people use social media to clean up London after the riots. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigAug 14, 2011
The hacker group Anonymous threatened to target the San Francisco Bay Area's transit website after officials cut the system's underground cellphone service to prevent a protest last week. (more) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigAug 10, 2011
Remember, remember the fifth of November 2011. That's the day hactivist collective Anonymous plans to "kill" the second-busiest website on the Internet "for the sake of your own privacy." In a video message, Anonymous warns that "you are not safe from them [Facebook] nor from any government" to which the social networking website feeds information. (more) Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigAug 7, 2011
The hacking group Anonymous took credit Saturday for the theft of a cache of data from rural American law enforcement websites in retaliation for arrests of associates and sympathizers in the United States and Britain. (more) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJul 27, 2011
In his book "Civil Disobedience," Henry David Thoreau wrote: "Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison" And prison is where a federal judge has put Tim DeChristopher, 29, after he posed in 2008 as a winning bidder (more). Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJul 26, 2011
Who made your week by speaking truth to power, blowing the whistle or standing up to injustice? Let us know here. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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