The Boston Ujima Project is a community-led organization with a mission of growing a people’s economy in Greater Boston, one that is controlled by the community with neighbors, workers, business [...]
On Tuesday, the music stopped for the Lyric Opera of Chicago just as the company began its 64th season. Orchestra members walked out on strike over a new proposed contract that would cut pay, [...]
Over 100 musicians, artists, scholars, union members and activists, as well as 33 social justice organizations, have called on the Philadelphia Orchestra to cancel its planned June tour in [...]
By Lorna Garano for Truthout. L.M. Bogad's artful activism blends the strategies of civil disobedience with heaping doses of Harpo Marx. As a professor and "tactical performer, Bogad says he is [...]
Chris Hedges for Truth Dig - America’s refusal to fund and sustain its intellectual and cultural heritage means it has lost touch with its past, obliterated its understanding of the present, [...]
By Alexander Billet of In These Times. It’s been a year since the death of Michael Brown, a year since the rebellion in Ferguson, a year since the Black Lives Matter movement began to shift the [...]
By John Kelly in The Washington Post - Don’t call the musical instrument that was stolen last week from Jimmy Betts’s car a “violin.” It’s a fiddle.
“Fiddles are meant to be out and about in [...]
Every now and then there is an action that hits all the right notes — the message is clear, the messengers are appropriate, the setting and tone are impeccable, and the ripples carry on far into [...]
By Robert J. Burrowes, www.PopularResistance.org -
As we celebrate Mahatma Gandhi's birthday on October 2nd, the International Day of Nonviolence, we have the chance to reflect on our progress in creating a nonviolent world. Obviously, creating a [...]
Saturday, September 20th
10:45a-12:15p
NYC Climate Convergence
16 Beaver, 4th Floor
FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
In the lead up to #PeoplesClimate March on 9/21, we're particpating in a day [...]
As the media continues to bombard us with horrifying images of violence and hate emanating from the Middle East, it can be difficult to remain hopeful that any long-lasting solution to end the [...]
By Creative Resistance, www.creativeresistance.org -
This article is from our associated project, CreativeResistance.org.
This is a bronze sculpture of a wicker fan back chair that rests on a square steel base with a mirrored surface.
The chair [...]
By Creative Resistance, www.creativeresistance.org -
This article is from our associated project, CreativeResistance.org. A Giant two-block mural about oil trains and climate change, cherishing water, and building community solidarity was dedicated [...]
By Creative Resistance, www.creativeresistance.org -
This article is from our associated project, CreativeResistance.org. Presented by Art Forces, the Estria Foundation and NorCal Friends of Sabeel, the Oakland Palestine Solidarity Mural is a [...]
Photographer Annie Appel has done an amazing job of documenting many of the people who participated in the Occupy Movement. Annie writes:
"When the Occupy protests began, I was inspired to [...]
