Activism

Earlier this year, Rev. Dr. Phil Snyder Brentwood Christian Church appeared before the Springfield, Missouri city council to discuss his views on whether the council should add sexual orientation to the classes of people protected under the city's non-discrimination clause.  According to the Springfield News-Leader, nearly 200 residents showed up to a hearing in August, hoping to express their views for or against the changes.

The Canadian government said recently that former TransCanada engineer Evan Vokes was right to raise alarms about inspectors not being trained well enough to spot shoddy work that's not up to code.

In an act of civil disobedience to protest their exclusion from the presidential debates, Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein and her running mate Cheri Honkala were arrested outside the site of the second debate on Tuesday.

The first release from a new "comedy super PAC" features actress Rosie Perez blasting Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney for his joke saying that he'd "have a better shot" at winning the election if he were Latino.

A Pakistani schoolgirl shot in the head by the Taliban because she campaigned for the right to education was on Monday sent to Britain for medical treatment, the military said.

Melissa Harris-Perry closed her show Sunday with a statement supporting Malala Yousufzai, the 14-year-old girl who has become a folk hero in Pakistan following her shooting at the hands of the Taliban, directing some of her statements toward the men who tried to kill her.

Tuesday on Current TV's "The War Room with Jennifer Granholm," former Speaker of the House Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) urged Democrats to stop belly-aching in the wake of President Barack Obama's poor debate performance last week and get organized.

The Center for Reproductive Rights is releasing a new set of ads, featuring high profile actors including Meryl Streep, Sarah Silverman and Amy Poehler to warn women about the threats to their reproductive freedoms and urging them to sign the Bill of Reproductive Rights.

The man behind the online campaign to oust Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony told Oprah Winfrey he became a whole other person at the time he was filmed naked and belligerent in San Diego after his campaign's success.

Actress Daryl Hannah, a longtime Texan and star of such films as "Kill Bill," "Blade Runner" and "Splash," was arrested Thursday night in the east Texas town of Winnsboro as she helped a neighbor physically block heavy construction equipment from continuing to build the trans-continental Keystone XL pipeline.

The Boy Scouts of America on Thursday said that they had denied a gay California teen Eagle Scout honors because he had not lived up to the principle of "duty to God" with his sexual orientation.

It's a cultural zeitgeist in America that "your brain on drugs" is a brutish, violent experience that produces nothing but euphoria at the moment at the expense of the user's future. But science is a bit more nuanced than that.

The Guttmacher Institute, a non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of sexual and reproductive health and rights worldwide, has released a video entitled "Abortion Worldwide" to raise awareness of some of the issues surrounding abortion rights in the U.S. and other parts of the world.