Activism

Sir Richard Branson believes that the ideal way for Spain to get out of its current morass of national debt, savage austerity cuts, and social turmoil would be to legalize and tax marijuana.

RELATED: 'Trayvon Matin' gun range targets sold out in two days

Occupy Wall Street portesters are targeting Bank of America's annual shareholder meeting today in Charlotte, N.C., in which they're demonstrating against the nation's second-largest bank's taking of taxpayer bailout money, according to reporting from Reuters.

Former ER star Noah Wyle explained Tuesday why he decided to bring attention to "a very unsexy kind of issue" by getting arrested to protest Medicaid cuts.

Monday on CurrentTV's "The War Room with Jennifer Granholm," host Jennifer Granholm was joined by Freedom to Marry activist Marc Solomon. The two discussed Vice President Joe Biden's remarks from Sunday in support of gay marriage and the president's reaction to them, or lack thereof.

Author Luis Alberto Urrea was Bill Moyers's guest on this week's edition of "Moyers and Company." Urrea has dedicated his life to telling the stories of the people who live along the 1,969 miles of border between the U.S. and Mexico.

Activists with the Occupy Wall Street movement are claiming that police in Minneapolis gave them illegal drugs and other items for participating in a study on impairment.

A North Carolina pastor who in a recent sermon advocated giving gay children "a good punch" now says he was just joking.

Video of a North Carolina man firing a shotgun at a sign against the state's proposed amendment banning same sex marriage has gone viral, even after he removed it from YouTube.

Medea Benjamin, the co-founder of the anti-war group CODEPINK, interrupted a speech by White House counter-terrorism advisor John Brennan on Monday.

The United Methodist Task Force on Immigration held a rally in Tampa over the weekend to protest against the growing private prison system in the United States.

Renowned hip-hop radio host Jay Smooth roundly commended the decorum of Trayvon Martin's parents in his latest video commentary about the aftermath from the murdered teenager's story.

According to Internet activist Aaron Swartz, the proposed Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), which passed the House of Representatives this week, is even worse than the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) that was sidelined by a public outcry last winter.