Activism

Jay Smooth: 'Until Abortion Ends' campaign is a joke

New York hip-hop DJ Jay Smooth has a pretty low opinion of the anti-abortion campaign "Until Abortion Ends," which encourages young people to give something up until women can no longer access safe abortion procedures.

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Protesters 'mic check' Gingrich in Iowa

Protesters affiliated with the "Occupy Wall Street" movement on Wednesday interrupted Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich during a speech at the University of Iowa.

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Children of OWS post paper hearts, cops rip them down

An anti-bullying march by parents and children directed against the New York Police Department's arrests of peaceful protesters encountered a first-hand taste of what they were protesting against when police ripped down the paper hearts the children were attempting to post at City Hall.

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Graham: The CFPB is a 'Stalinist era' thing

In the mind of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), protecting consumers from financial malpractice is something from the Joseph Stalin playbook.

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Hundreds flock to 'Occupy Boston,' halting police eviction

Protesters with "Occupy Boston" were still occupying Dewey Square on Friday morning, after the mayor's deadline for them to leave passed to much fanfare as hundreds flooded into the park to show solidarity with the group.

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'Mockupy' protesters crash set of 'Law and Order: SVU'

Last night, a group of peaceful protesters crashed the set of an 'Occupy Wall Street'-themed episode of the long-running TV show "Law and Order: Special Victims Unit." According to The Huffington Post, the show's producers constructed a replica in New York City's Foley Park of the Zuccoti Park encampment where the protest movement was born, complete with matching signs, a "People's Kitchen" and "People's Library".

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Activist recounts clash with umbrella-welding Bill O’Reilly

Branden Lane, an activist with Wisconsin Jobs Now and Take Back The Capitol, on Thursday described his brief confrontation with Fox News host Bill O'Reilly.

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Romney: 'I don't have a political career'

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who has run for public office no less than four times over a period of almost 20 years, denied Wednesday that he had a "political career."

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Police rip clothes off female 'Occupy Melbourne' protester

A female protester has officially complained after police in Melbourne forcibly removed the tent dress she was wearing, leaving her nearly naked on the gound.

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Watch live: Occupy DC in standoff with police

Cops seize Occupy Boston's sink, spawning flood of bad puns

When riot police invaded the Occupy Boston encampment on Thursday evening and carried off a kitchen sink that had recently been donated by MIT, the initial reaction was one of outrage.

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Pepper-spray creator 'shocked' by UC Davis incident

Kamran Loghman, who helped the FBI develop pepper-spray in the 1980’s, said he was shocked and bewildered that it was used against non-violent protesters at the University of California at Davis.

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Tasers come out for 'Occupy Olympia' protesters

At least four of the thousands of protesters who were attempting to occupy the Washington state Capitol were arrested on Monday as lawmakers considered $2 billion in budget cuts. The State Patrol used tasers on three other protesters.

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