Activism

A nameless member of the hacker activist group "Anonymous" took credit on Wednesday for releasing a trove of information pertaining to members of the Westboro Baptist Church and claimed his group is planning to permanently wipe the hate group off the Internet.

Gun control advocates gathered near the White House, many holding white candles, in a demonstration calling for a renewed discussion of gun control policy after a shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., left almost three dozen children and adults dead, reported the Associated Press. Multiple signs read "#TodayISTheDay," a response to Press Secretary Jay Carney's assertion that "today is not the day" to discuss gun control in the United States. However, the demonstrators made no specific appeals, reported Talking Points Memo.

In a short bit of tax reform activism, a new liberal activist group calling itself "The Action" sends Santa Clause to confront Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) on Capitol Hill, telling him he's got a lump of coal coming this Christmas if he doesn't shape up.

In rare and stunning footage, filmmakers behind a newly released documentary captured the largest-ever iceberg calving yet seen off the Greenland ice shelf's Ilulissat glacier.

During an appearance on MSNBC, actor and LGBT activist George Takei called for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia to recuse himself from upcoming cases involving the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and California's Proposition 8.

The fight over union rights in Michigan has some peoples' blood absolutely boiling, and Teamsters Union President James Hoffa is chief among them.

In a saterical public service announcement intended to advocate for the Center for Reproductive Rights' Bill of Reproductive Rights, comedian Sarah Silverman warned America's "bros" that if they ever want to see a vagina ever again, they'd better become "bro-choice."

Former Rep. Mark Schauer (D-MI) was pepper-sprayed by police at Michigan's capitol building amid an escalating protest against so-called "right to work" bills passed by the legislature on Tuesday that critics say will strip public and private unions of their bargaining power.

Michigan State Police mounted on horseback reportedly knocked down at least one pro-union demonstrator at the State Capitol on Tuesday.

Rappers Chuck D. from Public Enemy and Brother Ali joined members of Occupy Wall Street Thursday in taking over an abandoned home in Minneapolis, Minnesota, as part of what the activist group calls a campaign to institute a "foreclosure-free zone" in the southern part of the city.

Michigan State Police say they were forced to use pepper spray and arrest at least four protesters who were opposing right to work legislation at the Michigan Capitol on Thursday.

A reporter who covered Thursday's protests by fast-food workers in New York City told MSNBC's Ed Schultz the demonstrations had a clear effect on local chain restaurants.

Workers from a number of fast food chains around New York City held walkouts and demonstrations calling for a living wage Thursday morning.