Activism

Cybersexism Reviewed

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jan 31, 2014 Rather than engaging "a transgressive subculture that embodies many of the internet’s most celebrated radical qualities," New Statesman editor Laurie Penny in her new book "blames the misogyny of geek counterculture on a host of unhip and easily mocked caricatures: conservatives, jocks, tabloids and traditional mainstream masculinity." Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

College Athletes Look for Power in a Union

Staff / Truthdig Jan 31, 2014 This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Student athletes want more than scholarships for their billion dollar labor, Dr Jill Stein and Aura Bogado respond to the State of the Union, why the Costco model beats the Walmart model, and arguably the most powerful progressive in the House retires. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

‘Angry Birds’ Attacked

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jan 30, 2014 Hackers defaced the website of the game whose "leaky" user database was revealed as a target of British and American spying agencies. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Pete Seeger: Troubadour of Truth and Justice

Amy Goodman / Truthdig Jan 30, 2014 Pete Seeger's life, like the arc of the moral universe famously invoked by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., bent toward justice. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Pete Seeger: ‘Democracy Now’ Remembers the Folk Icon With His Own Music and Words

Peter Z. Scheer / Truthdig Jan 29, 2014 Amy Goodman and the team from Democracy Now have put together a wonderful tribute to the late Pete Seeger, who died Monday. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Who Needs the Gestapo When You Have ‘Angry Birds’?

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Jan 28, 2014 Somewhere in the lowest reaches of hell, Adolf Hitler and his coterie of lesser dictators must be tormented by the knowledge they did not live long enough to get their hands on "Angry Birds." Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Pete Seeger Outlasted the Bastards

Peter Z. Scheer / Truthdig Jan 28, 2014 Pete Seeger wasn't one of those legendary performers who made the world a better place with music. He was the original. He was inimitable and unique and indomitable in his mission to bring light to the dark places. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Why There’s No Outcry for a Revolution in America

Robert Reich / Truthdig Jan 27, 2014 Middle incomes are sinking, the ranks of the poor are swelling, almost all the economic gains are going to the top, and big money is corrupting our democracy. So why isn’t there more of a ruckus? Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

America’s Biggest Crisis: The Economy Is Rigged for the Wealthiest

By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Popular Resistance Jan 26, 2014 We owe it to MLK to carry his torch and create an economy for all. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

Egyptian Demonstrators Killed in Anniversary Protest

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jan 26, 2014 At least 54 people were killed in clashes between police and anti-government protesters in Egypt on the third anniversary of the uprising that ousted President Hosni Mubarak. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

People Are Less Free for the 8th Straight Year, Report Finds

Staff / Truthdig Jan 25, 2014 Freedom House has released its annual report on authoritarianism and found that people around the world are less free than they were a year ago. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Now You See Me

By Laura Gottesdiener, TomDispatch Jan 24, 2014 Growing up in a well-heeled suburban community, I absorbed our society’s distaste for dissent long before I was old enough to grasp just what was being dismissed, which is why I traveled thousands of miles to a Zapatista “organizing school” in the heart of the Lacandon jungle in southeastern Mexico to try to sort out just what I’d been missing. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )