Activism

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  • The family who just said no

    "No Impact" couple Colin Beavan and Michelle Conlin on the new movie capturing their year without A/C, TV or T.P.
  • Eco-pirates of the Antarctic

    This thrilling sea adventure follows a ragtag activist group's highly illegal campaign against Japanese whalers
  • Better world, or waste of time?

    I volunteer but don't enjoy it
  • Beyond Vagina-dome

    A giant clitoris! Healing circles! Celebrities! It's the 10th anniversary of "The Vagina Monologues," but the real star is New Orleans.
  • "The Trap"

    Are young Americans more interested in selling out than changing the world? Daniel Brook's new book argues that 20-somethings are forced to choose between living by their ideals or making a living.
  • I clean green but the dishes don't gleam!

    I use nonpolluting products wherever I can -- but this brand-name commercial stuff really makes plates and glasses sparkle!
  • My niece leased a Hummer!

    Should I try to talk to her or just channel my energy into drafting Al Gore?
  • "Strident" and proud

    Columnist Katha Pollitt blasts feminism's new timidity and says, "This 'girls just want to have fun' feminism is a very shallow approach to life."
  • Should I leave grad school to be an activist?

    I love teaching radical philosophy. But when is it time to practice what I teach?
  • Germany says "nein" to Bush, blah to Kerry

    German leftists prefer Nader, fear Kerry's grand plans for Iraq, and miss the days when America was actually cool.
  • Facing the Soviet whalers

    Summer 1976: A ragtag group of activists take to the Pacific in a chartered minesweeper. Their mission: Stop the wholesale slaughter of whales.
  • "A Good Forest for Dying" by Patrick Beach

    Since Earth First activist David Chain was crushed by a falling tree in the Headwaters standoff of 1998, he has been memorialized in song by Bonnie Raitt and been made the subject of a book and a play. But the corporate lumber giants he opposed are still standing tall.
  • Notes from an activist: Militant response

    In Miami, our exercising of our constitutional rights became an invitation to an indiscriminate crackdown.
  • Notes from an activist: Welcome to Miami

    On my first day in South Florida, here to conduct direct action protests against the Free Trade Area of the Americas conference, obstacles loom, but the spirit surges.
  • Rock's axis of activism

    Audioslave's Tom Morello and System of a Down's Serj Tankian on Bush's war plans, the corporate media after 9/11 and how their Axis of Justice can reach America's alienated youth.
  • The AIDS-drug warrior

    Activist Jamie Love says pharmaceutical companies must be forced to yield their patents to save hundreds of thousands of lives. Is he a visionary -- or a dangerous radical?
  • The "abortion boat" steams toward Ireland

    Women on Waves will provide medical abortions to women in international waters.
  • Bush's brand-new Day

    By Joan Walsh
  • The triumph of "multicultural" thugs

    By David Horowitz
  • Mickey Mouse is the devil

    The long, strange journey of New York activist Rev. Billy and his struggle against Starbucks, Disney, Nike and Cindy Crawford.
  • Pro-choice activism is reactivated

    Donations to Planned Parenthood are flooding in -- in the name of President Bush.
  • Keeping an eye on protesters

    International authorities are sharing information -- not all of it accurate -- about anti-globalization activists.
  • Ralph Nader knows better

    He is one of our greatest public advocates, but his presidential campaign is leading the public astray.
  • War on protesters

    The militarization of police strategies on display this convention season has cops fighting demonstrators, not crime.
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