Bureaucratic Battles in the Belly of the Beast
Bureaucratic Battles in the Belly of the Beast - My Aunt Eve My aunt Eve, 86, is an intrepid activist in the radical, pacifist community of Washington, DC. She goes to all kinds of protests against war and torture, and has been arrested often for crimes involving...
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Water Protectors Create Communities to Sustain the Struggle at Standing Rock
Scenes of unarmed Native Americans facing police aggression at Standing Rock are riveting, but behind the front lines quieter work goes on 24/7 to sustain the struggle against the Dakota Access Pipeline. Several thousand Tribal members and allies--children, elders,...
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Who are we?
And What is Activist Culture? We are the global grab-bag of boat-rockers, neck-sticker-outers, city-hall-fighters, tree-huggers, community-builders, trouble-makers, thought-provokers, rabble-rousers, visionaries, and gadflies. Diverse as we are, we share specific...
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Billy Elliot: soaring dancer, sinking union
Billy Elliot - Soaring Dancer, Sinking Union Activists know that workers and labor organizing get attacked from many directions, but we don't generally expect assault from popular fiction. Nonetheless, movies, TV, novels and other storytelling formats can be potent...
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Creating Activist Community in an Ocean of Oppression
Activists live in the belly of the beast we’re struggling to transform.We know better ways of being, we try some them out, and we feel bad that we can’t always follow through or make changes in all aspects of our lives. We believe in equality, justice and...
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Fiction featuring activists
-“A romantic comedy about a community organizer juggling activism and family life..." - “Don’t miss this compelling drama about Native American activists fighting an oil pipeline." - "Tune into the season premier of Occupy! the saga of a family involved in an epic...
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Seeing Red
People say you're wearing rose-colored glasses if you see the world as fine and dandy just as it is. The rose lenses create a pleasant blur. This could mean that you see beauty even in ugliness, but it also implies that the glasses help you ignore bad stuff rather...
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