New Profile of OWS & Tea Party Supporters
Results of a new poll by the Public Religion Research Institute were released yesterday that draw a profile of the Occupy Wall Street and Tea Party movements. The poll finds that about a quarter of...
View ArticleOWS occupying foreclosed homes
A story on ABC News reports that Occupy Wall Street headed to Brooklyn yesterday, calling for more attention to foreclosures. Removed from public spaces (and with winter approaching), activists are...
View ArticlePhoto Essay on Russian Protests
For over a week now, Russians have been coming out in the thousands to contest the results of the recent parliamentary elections. Protesters contend that there was massive voter fraud during the...
View ArticleA New Generation of Black Church Activists?
The New York Times recently published a set of essays in its Room for Debate series, exploring how black church activism has changed since the 1960s. The impetus for the debate– “Black Churches and a...
View ArticleMay Day and the Catholic Worker Movement
The first of May, or May Day, is known in much of the world as International Workers’ Day. In the U.S., Occupy protestors planned a day of action to highlight workers’ struggles in today’s financial...
View ArticleBeyond Religion as Resource
By Grace Yukich This past June, President Obama took executive action to defer the deportation of “Dreamers”: undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children, are under 30, have lived...
View ArticleFight For 15: Fast Food Workers Strike Across the U.S.
Last Thursday, thousands of fast food workers in 100 cities across the U.S. walked off the job to protest low wages, demanding higher wages (the cry “Fight for 15″ called for $15/hr wages) and the...
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