Activism

Scare Tactics Distort NSA Debate

David Sirota / Truthdig Jan 18, 2014 In order to have a genuinely constructive debate, data must be compiled, evidence must be amassed and verifiable truths must be presented. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Facebook Is Work, and You Should Get Paid for It

Staff / Truthdig Jan 17, 2014 This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: The Internet as we know it could soon disappear, we remember the radical Martin Luther King, the mega rich and Citizens United 2, and why Facebook's 1.3 billion users should think of socializing as work. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

From Austerity to Prosperity: Why I Am Running for California Treasurer

By Ellen Brown, Web of Debt Jan 16, 2014 California cannot solve its budget problems by slashing services that have already been cut to the bone or raising sales taxes that hurt the poor far more than the rich. We are fighting over a pie that remains too small. The pie itself needs to be expanded -- and it can be. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Beyond the Dreamer

Staff / Truthdig Jan 16, 2014 In the last year of his life, Martin Luther King Jr. struggled with what are best understood as existential challenges as he began to move toward an ever-more-profound and radical understanding of what would be required to deal with the nation’s domestic and international problems. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

If You Still Want to Be an Activist After Reading This, Prepare to Be Hated

Staff / Truthdig Jan 15, 2014 Do activists such as feminists, environmentalists, pacifists and others have an image problem? Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Erin Brockovich: After Chemical Spill, West Virginians’ Organizing ‘Stronger Than I’ve Ever Seen’

Peter Z. Scheer / Truthdig Jan 15, 2014 The environmental activist whose life story was turned into a hit movie talks to "Democracy Now" about the chemical spill in West Virginia. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Hacktivist Who Leaked the Steubenville Rape Video Faces 10 Years in Prison as Culprit Walks Free

Staff / Truthdig Jan 14, 2014 Remember that awful case in which a couple of high school football stars in Steubenville, Ohio, who raped an unconscious young girl were sentenced thanks to an anonymously leaked video? Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

The Amazing True Story of 8 Ordinary Americans Who Blew the Lid Off Government Spying

Bill Boyarsky / Truthdig Jan 14, 2014 Eight more patriots can be added to the roll of whistle-blowing heroes Daniel Ellsberg, Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Occupy Bangkok: Protesters Shut Down the Wall Street of Thailand

Peter Z. Scheer / Truthdig Jan 14, 2014 An estimated 100,000 protesters shut down Bangkok's commercial district Monday. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Reclaiming the Radical Imagination

By Henry A. Giroux, Truthout Jan 14, 2014 We now live under a form of casino capitalism that revels in deception, kills the radical imagination, depoliticizes the American public and promulgates what might be called disimagination factories and punishing machines. Dig deeper ( 21 Min. Read )

Trailer: ‘The Internet’s Own Boy’

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jan 12, 2014 One year after the death of Internet visionary Aaron Swartz, Brian Knappenberger, a director of films about hacktivism, is ready to release a documentary that follows a child programmer's maturation into one of the most important and effective political minds of his generation. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The Tasks of The People-Powered Movement for 2014

By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance Jan 10, 2014 In this stage of America's current social-political movement, which could take many years, our primary task is to build national consensus through broad and deep grass-roots organizing. Dig deeper ( 14 Min. Read )