Solidarity Confinement

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Building on Our Poor People’s Campaign Coverage

Staff / Truthdig Jun 10, 2018 Our reader-funded project to launch coverage of this important movement has been a success. Now we need your help to keep documenting activism across the nation in this historic moment. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

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Documenting the Poor People’s Campaign

Staff / Truthdig May 29, 2018 Activists and civil rights advocates from across the nation have joined to create a new movement that is reigniting Martin Luther King's 1968 effort to fight racism, militarism and materialism. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Take a Knee for Humanity

Eric Ortiz / Truthdig Sep 25, 2017 The days of keeping politics out of sports are history. Now is the time for sports figures to use their platforms to lead a global peace movement. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Lech Walesa Claims He’s a Victim of ‘Political Crime’ in Polish Probe

By The Associated Press Aug 23, 2017 The onetime leader of Poland's Solidarity movement says the current administration in Warsaw is harassing him. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Noam Chomsky to Chris Hedges: ‘Everywhere You Look, There’s Public Subsidy’ (Video)

BLANK Jul 11, 2017 In the second part of their recent conversation, the renowned intellectual (left) tells the Truthdig columnist how the banking, fossil fuel and tech sectors profit from taxpayer dollars. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

VIDEO: Why Gaza and Ferguson Are Closer Than You Think

Staff / Truthdig Oct 14, 2015 A powerful new video featuring dozens of artists and activists, including Lauryn Hill and Alice Walker, draws comparisons between blacks' and Palestinians' struggles for justice. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Truthdiggers of the Week: 40,000 Brave Norwegians

Staff / Truthdig Apr 27, 2012 For proving that love for others, regardless of creed, gender or skin color, is still a powerful force in human affairs, we honor the 40,000 Norwegians who sang out in an Oslo square on Thursday against the violent dogma of mass killer Anders Breivik. They are our Truthdiggers of the Week.For proving that love for others is still a powerful force in human affairs, we honor the 40,000 Norwegians who sang out against violence and dogma as our Truthdiggers of the Week. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Time to Start Preoccupying Wall Street

Lawrence Weschler / Truthdig Dec 10, 2011 What would it be like if activists were to spend the next several months developing, articulating and organizing toward a major national mortgage and student loan strike? Such a loan strike would be slated to begin on some specific preannounced date in the intermediate future. Why not, say, on Oct. 1, 2012, right in the middle of the next presidential campaign?Tyrannies all over the world exist in the ironclad certainty that people are nothing more than meat on sticks. Dig deeper ( 16 Min. Read )

Indian Activist Poised to End Hunger Strike

Staff / Truthdig Aug 27, 2011 Activist Anna Hazare has agreed to end his nearly two-week-long hunger strike on Sunday morning after India's finance minister announced that the general sentiment in parliament is to support the strict anti-corruption policies Hazare is demanding. (more) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Latino Studies Program the First Victim of Arizona Ban

Staff / Truthdig Jan 9, 2011 Arizona is at it again. A controversial law governing ethnic studies programs has taken effect in the state. The first victim: the Tucson school district's Mexican-American program. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Gender Trouble in Iran

Staff / Truthdig Dec 11, 2009 In a move that seems more apropos to the "girlie men" critique that California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger once used against opponents, Iran has published an image of a student activist in Islamic chador and maghnaeh in an attempt to humiliate the man. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )