Activism

Fast Food Workers Continue Fight Against Poverty Wages

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Aug 29, 2013 Adults working full time at McDonald's are "paid less per hour in real terms than the lowest paid US workers were half a century ago" when hundreds of thousands of people flooded into Washington, D.C., for the historic march for freedom and jobs for black Americans, The Guardian reports Thursday. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Martin Luther King and the Two 9/11s

By Ariel Dorfman, TomDispatch Aug 29, 2013 So much has changed since that hot day in August 1963 when Martin Luther King delivered his famous words from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. So much -- and yet so little. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

Dr. Hansen, We Need You at Fukushima and Diablo Canyon

Harvey Wasserman / Truthdig Aug 27, 2013 The sales pitch for new nuclear technologies is a dangerous diversion, like building an experimental garage while a raging radioactive fire forever contaminates our only home. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

The Neutered Message of the March on Washington

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Aug 27, 2013 "Based upon the speeches during the main portion of today’s events there can be little doubt that the Dr. King who was murdered in Memphis in 1968 would not have been allowed to speak at this fiftieth-anniversary commemoration of his life," The Nation's Dave Zirin wrote of Saturday's March on Washington. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

A Geography of Dissent In Time

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Aug 26, 2013 A Penn State doctoral candidate made a time-lapse visualization of what appears to be every recorded protest on the planet since 1979 that shows a flood of resistance sweeping the planet beginning with the anti-globalization movement of the late 1990s. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The Equal Rites Awards

Ellen Goodman / Truthdig Aug 26, 2013 And so once more we gather on the 93rd anniversary of that historic day when women finally won the right to vote to give out the Equal Rites Awards to those folks who are still doing their best to take us backward. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Truthdigger of the Week: Ellen Brown

BLANK Aug 25, 2013 Ellen Brown is a major public intellectual and a tireless promoter of a tried and tested solution that may represent Americans' best chance at taking their society back from predatory bankers. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Love It or Leave It?

Scott Tucker / Truthdig Aug 25, 2013 Journalism is often a form of priestcraft. If human victims are required on the pyramids of sacrifice, a mob of journalists is always ready to slip on priestly robes while reaching for the knives. Dig deeper ( 13 Min. Read )

Demonstrators Converge on D.C. to Commemorate Civil Rights Anniversary

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Aug 24, 2013 On a march from the National Mall to the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on Saturday, tens of thousands of people honored the work of those who marched on Washington, D.C., 50 years ago in the struggle for civil rights and pledged that the goal "included equality for gays, Latinos, the poor and the disabled," The Associated Press reports. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Steer Clear of Manning Protests in Iceland

Staff / Truthdig Aug 24, 2013 As though there weren’t already enough paranoid and unfounded warnings coming from American officials, the U.S. Embassy in Reykjavik sent out a cautionary message Thursday regarding Chelsea (formerly Bradley) Manning supporters. The emergency notice advised Americans to be wary of traveling to Iceland, or worse, walking by the embassy downtown, for fear of the protesters. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Straight From an Inmate’s Mouth

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Aug 24, 2013 Todd Ashker, a prisoner in solitary confinement at California's Pelican Bay Prison, speaks to "Democracy Now!" via recording Friday about the conditions in which he's being held. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Attempts to Protect Privacy Have a Long History

Staff / Truthdig Aug 23, 2013 There are a growing number of privacy tools available today, but efforts to keep personal information safe are nothing new. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )