Activism

Activist Spells Out Our Great Shame

Staff / Truthdig Aug 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 )

Pipeline Protesters Jailed Outside White House

Staff / Truthdig Aug 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 )

Mumbai ‘Dabbawallas’ Plan First-Ever Strike

Staff / Truthdig Aug 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 )

Nominate Our Next Truthdigger of the Week

Staff / Truthdig Aug 16, 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 )

Youth Rules

Staff / Truthdig Aug 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 )

Hackers Take Aim at San Francisco Transit

Staff / Truthdig Aug 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 )

Anonymous Is Going to Try to Kill Facebook (Video)

Staff / Truthdig Aug 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 )

Anonymous Strikes U.S. Law Enforcement Sites

Staff / Truthdig Aug 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 )

Climate Activist Goes to Jail

Staff / Truthdig Jul 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 )

Nominate Our Next Truthdigger of the Week

Staff / Truthdig Jul 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 )

Alleged Anonymous Hackers Are Busted

Staff / Truthdig Jul 20, 2011 Federal agents nabbed 14 people across the country Tuesday in connection with alleged attacks by the hacker group Anonymous against the websites of numerous corporations, in what looks to be the largest such roundup ever on U.S. soil. (more) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

California Prisoners Do or Die

Staff / Truthdig Jul 16, 2011 Prisoners all over California continue a hunger strike despite nearing death; "Sister Wives" reality TV show stars fight the anti-polygamy law; and economists have resorted to capital bribery to resuscitate the American job market. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )