Tag: protest

Columns

Puerto Rico Was Ready

Alicia Kennedy

July 25, 2019

The protests in Puerto Rico are about much more than Ricardo Rosselló.

Striking at the End of the World

Robert Raymond

March 25, 2019

The direct-action climate change movement Extinction Rebellion wants you to withdraw your consent to be governed.

Jeering White Boys

Rafia Zakaria

January 24, 2019

The smirk seen 'round the world tells us something about Trumpism.

A Telling Moment

Rafia Zakaria

May 08, 2018

“This is not a very beautiful city,” the young activist driving me from the train station to the campus of the University of Zaragoza said apologetically as soon as we were in the car. She was right. I had just left Granada, redolent with orange blossoms and Moorish ...

A Metaphor for the Planet

Jack Downey

April 19, 2018

David Buckel's memory is dangerous to environmental organizations' more moderate calls for legislative gradualism and personal lifestyle change.

Austerity Gospel

Jonathon Sturgeon

June 21, 2017

If visual and conceptual artists were foundational to the Occupy Wall Street movement, what about novelists?

Dispatch from the JFK Refugee Rally

Sarah Jaffe

January 28, 2017

I’m at JFK Terminal 4, where hundreds of people and growing every minute are here to denounce the unconscionable and unconstitutional executive orders that Donald Trump signed yesterday and that now are tearing families apart here at JFK Airport, we know of at least twelve ...

Tom Hayden and the Vocation of Politics

Todd Gitlin

October 26, 2016

There’s a revelatory scene in a hard-to-find documentary, Troublemakers, shot by Norm Fruchter and Bob Machover in 1965 in the poor wards of Newark, N.J. Tom Hayden and some 100 others had left their rather comfy college-kid lives when Students for a Democratic ...